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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces 2015-16 Concert Season
Today Jazz at Lincoln Center announces its 2015-16 Concert season, themed “Jazz and American Song”. Through an impressive array of more than 80 concerts and programs, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 28th season celebrates the music of the stage and silver screen, anchored by the exceptional Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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World Premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s newly revised, complete Blues Symphony
Washington Performing Arts presents World Premiere of Wynton Marsalis’s newly revised, complete Blues Symphony for 100-piece symphony orchestra at The Music Center at Strathmore on February 4th at 8pm
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With Special appearance of The Wynton Marsalis Quintet in solo set
Performance is the culmination of a robust semester-long residency with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra as part of Washington Performing Arts’ The Art of the Orchestra Series -
Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra tours Mexico, Puerto Rico, South America and U.S. Virgin Islands
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s current season concerts and events celebrate the influence that the rich musical traditions of the Caribbean, North, South, and Central America have had on jazz throughout its history. The organization announces that the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will launch the 2015 Jazz Across The Americas Tour with concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on February 27 and 28. This landmark tour will bring the Jazz Times and DownBeat Readers Poll winning big band to Mexico City, St. Thomas, San Juan, and South American cities Buenos Aires, Caracas, Lima, Montevideo, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and São Paolo throughout March 2015.
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JLCO with Wynton Marsalis celebrate Duke, Dizzy, Trane & Mingus: Jazz Titans
New York, NY – December 16, 2014 – The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis perform the music of four pioneering giants of jazz – Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, and Charles Mingus – in Duke, Dizzy, ‘Trane & Mingus: Jazz Titans at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on January 29, 30 and 31 at 8pm. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located at Broadway at 60th Street in New York, New York.
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New Year’s Eve 2014 at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Wynton Marsalis Quintet with special guests Jared Grimes and Kate Davis in a one-night only performance at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, December 31, Sets at 7 and 11pm
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Birth of the American Orchestra
On January 9 and 10, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explores its big band roots. Partly inspired by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Managing & Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis’ Harvard University lecture, “Setting the Communal Table: The Evolution of the Jazz Orchestra”, delivered on September 26, 2013, the Birth of the American Orchestra concerts will explore the development of the American orchestra through the syncopated dance beats of New Orleans, innovative ensemble virtuosity, and the monumentality of swing and the blues.
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Rubén Blades’ Jazz at Lincoln Center concert to be livestreamed worldwide
Jazz at Lincoln Center offers music fans around the world the opportunity to watch salsa giant Rubén Blades’ sold out performance in Rose Theater via live webcast at jazz.org/live on November 15, 2014 at 8pm ET. Blades will perform jazz standards alongside his distinctive salsa hits with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Vocalist Eddie Rosado and percussionists Bobby Allende, Marc Quiñones, and Carlos Padron also join Blades for these concerts.
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Big Band Holidays U.S. Tour 2014
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant celebrate “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” with a 3-week, 12-city Big Band Holidays U.S. Tour. Kicking off the holiday season with messages of peace and good cheer, the Big Band Holidays U.S. Tour commences on December 1 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and ends on December 21 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Tour dates include four performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater at Frederick P. Rose Hall, located at Broadway at 60th Street in New York, New York.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Family Concert: Who is Tito Puente?
Jazz at Lincoln Center invites school-age children and their families to join host Carlos Henriquez and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis as the critically-acclaimed big band performs in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Family Concert: Who is Tito Puente? This special concert event for families takes place on Saturday, November 22 at 1pm & 3pm at Rose Theater in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, located at Broadway at 60th Street in New York, New York.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Brazilian Festival
The late Moacir Santos’ work illuminated the soul of Brazil, creating a truly national music, which has been recorded extensively by hundreds of artists. Melding Afro-Latin influences with improvisation and jazz harmony helped make Santos a genuinely original voice in Brazilian music. Santos was orphaned at an early age, and taken in by a family who helped him take music lessons. He continued to learn the music of Brazil throughout his formative years, garnering an encyclopedic musical knowledge. compositions.
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