Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis - Chautauqua Residency October 2020
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis
Chautauqua Residency – October 14 – 24
October is the month for jazz at Chautauqua, as we host the JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis for a unique 10-day residency, Oct. 14 to 24, focused on improvisation, blues and swing. The ensemble’s performances will take place at Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall for streaming at a later date on the CHQ Assembly Video Platform, but broadcast live for attendees of six special jazz-themed dinners and brunches (details below).
Full Residency Schedule
Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 12:00pm EDT
Wynton Marsalis in conversation with the Most Rev. Michael Curry
The famed jazz musician speaks with the presiding bishop and primate of the Episcopal Church.
(Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform)
Friday, October 16, 2020 | 05:00pm EDT
Jazz-themed Dinner at Heirloom Restaurant
Have dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel and enjoy live televised access to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis concerts taking place in Lenna Hall.
(Location: Heirloom Restaurant)
Saturday, October 17, 2020 | 05:00pm EDT
Jazz-themed Dinner at Heirloom Restaurant
Have dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel and enjoy live televised access to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis concerts taking place in Lenna Hall.
(Location: Heirloom Restaurant)
Sunday, October 18, 2020 | 11:00am EDT
Jazz-themed Brunch at Heirloom Restaurant
Have dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel and enjoy live televised access to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis concerts taking place in Lenna Hall.
(Location: Heirloom Restaurant)
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | 10:30am EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: The Ever Fonky Lowdown composed by Wynton
An overview of this landmark piece presented at Chautauqua in 2019 and now aimed straight at the heart of our national discord.
(Location: Online Classroom)
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | 01:30pm EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: Freedom Suite composed by Sonny Rollins
This important statement from the beginning of the civil rights era (1958) was one of the first extended works for tenor saxophone and still resonates today as a touchstone for freedom-minded people everywhere.
(Location: Online Classroom)
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 10:30am EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom: Part 1…
An album that garnered two Grammy Awards in 2017, and featuring speeches from FDR to Churchill to Nelson Mandela, composer and JLCO saxophonist Ted Nash will dissect and discuss his work "Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom,”…
(Location: Online Classroom)
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | 01:30pm EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom: Part 2…
An album that garnered two Grammy Awards in 2017, and featuring speeches from FDR to Churchill to Nelson Mandela, composer and JLCO saxophonist Ted Nash will dissect and discuss his work "Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom,”…
(Location: Online Classroom)
Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 10:30am EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: Charlie Parker Centennial: Freedom to Take Flight
Join JLCO pianist Dan Nimmer and JLCO Director of Public Programs Seton Hawkins for an in-depth examination of the rhythm sections that gave Bird wings. Much is made about Parker’s individual contributions, but freedom is an expression of community.
(Location: Online Classroom)
Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 12:00pm EDT
Wynton Marsalis in Conversation with Jon Batiste
Celebrated jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis speaks with Jon Batiste, the virtuoso pianist, bandleader, composer, record producer, educator and actor.
(Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform)
Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 01:30pm EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: Freedom Across the Pond: Jazz in the UK
Growing up in a family of musicians, and the first UK musician to play full time with the JLCO, JLCO trombonist and composer Elliot Mason will discuss his personal journey and how jazz continues to shape and speak to the culture of the UK.
(Location: Online Classroom)
Thursday, October 22, 2020 | 05:00pm EDT
Jazz-themed Dinner at Heirloom Restaurant
Have dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel and enjoy live televised access to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis concerts taking place in Lenna Hall.
(Location: Heirloom Restaurant)
Friday, October 23, 2020 | 10:30am EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
Released in 1960, this important album featured vocalist Abbey Lincoln and compositions that moved from straight-ahead jazz to the avant-garde. JLCO drummer Obed Calvaire and JLCO Director of Public Programs Seton Hawkins will give this work perspective…
(Location: Online Classroom)
Friday, October 23, 2020 | 12:00pm EDT
Wynton Marsalis in Conversation with Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo
Celebrated jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis speaks with Huda I. Alkhamis-Kanoo, a patron of the arts who has dedicated her life to inspiring artists to create, generations to innovate and communities to unite and prosper.
(Location: CHQ Assembly Video Platform)
Friday, October 23, 2020 | 01:30pm EDT
Jazz at Lincoln Center Class :: Freedom of Expression: Latin Jazz in NYC
An expert on Latin jazz and the NYC scene, JLCO bassist and composer Carlos Henriquez has been privileged to play with many of the Latin music greats, from Celia Cruz to Tito Puente.
(Location: Online Classroom)
Friday, October 23, 2020 | 05:00pm EDT
Jazz-themed Dinner at Heirloom Restaurant
Have dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel and enjoy live televised access to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis concerts taking place in Lenna Hall.
(Location: Heirloom Restaurant)
Saturday, October 24, 2020 | 11:00am EDT
Jazz-themed Brunch at Heirloom Restaurant
Have dinner at the Athenaeum Hotel and enjoy live televised access to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis concerts taking place in Lenna Hall.
(Location: Heirloom Restaurant)
Concert Program Details: “Freedom and Democracy Series”
The Music of Marsalis: The Sound of Democracy
Following Dinner on Friday, October 16
Following Dinner on Thursday, October 22
Performing as a septet with Wynton Marsalis, musicians from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) present a concert of newly composed works and arrangements by multi-Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner Marsalis around the themes of freedom and democracy.
This performance is made possible thanks to Hirtle Callaghan & Co.
Coltrane and Rollins: A Love Supreme and Freedom Suite
Following Dinner on Saturday, October 17
Following Brunch on Saturday, October 24
The JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis will re-introduce listeners to two of the most profound pieces of music ever created: A Love Supreme and Freedom Suite. Universally hailed as a masterpiece, A Love Supreme is a moving, powerful and poignant suite of music and a musical embodiment of Coltrane’s deep spirituality. Sonny Rollins’s Freedom Suite is one of the first instrumental protest pieces that foreshadowed the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
JLCO Originals: Our Songs of Democracy
Following Brunch on Sunday, October 18
Following Dinner on Friday, October 23
The JLCO Septet with Wynton Marsalis will showcase the songs and arrangements of the orchestra’s various bandmembers, inspired by the notions of freedom and democracy. The JLCO’s diverse and eclectic musical personalities shine through in this potpourri of engaging — and swinging — compositions.
