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Marsalis, Lincoln Center orchestra make season bright at Marcus Center
You know it’s a good gig when you can’t tell if the band or the audience is having more fun.
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Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant and an Uihlein Hall audience shared a great time Monday with the band’s “Big Band Holidays” at the Marcus Center.
The music, most of which was arranged by members of the band, was miles and miles from the trite pop arrangements cluttering the air this time of year. These were meaty, interesting takes on great tunes, each leaving plenty of room for band members to take solos. -
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis and Cécile McLorin Salvant at Marcus Center in Milwaukee
The holiday season fits polymath Wynton Marsalis like a big white mitten. The artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center totes nine Grammy awards, a Pulitzer Prize and a bounty of celebratory musical goodies to share in spirit, as might the most soulful St. Nick.
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Concert Review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Milwaukee
Wynton Marsalis came to Milwaukee last to give a history lesson. But instead of using Powerpoint for the instruction, he brought along the 17-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as his teaching tool. Marsalis offered background and context for each piece, yet at no time were his remarks dry or didactic. In fact, once the format was established, Marsalis’ brief comments before each selection became a welcomed and expected part of the evening’s performance.
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A Latin Musician Translates a Meeting of Cultures
The reality that jazz and Afro-Latin music have been mixed for a century can sometimes lead to the myth that a musician trained in one tradition is effectively trained in the other, and that fluency runs both ways at all times, in all places. And so you might have looked at an advertisement for the Panamanian singer Rubén Blades collaborating with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, as he is doing through Saturday night at the Rose Theater, and thought, sure, Latin jazz.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Opens Season With “Ochas”
Wynton Marsalis opened Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2014-15 season with the world premiere of “Ochas,” a three-movement suite blending jazz with the traditional folkloric music of Cuba and the Afro-Cuban Santeria religion.
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Wynton Marsalis Trumpets Youth, Musical Diversity At Annual London Residency
The solo played by U.S. jazzman Wynton Marsalis to close his now-annual residency at London’s Barbican this week was a rare personal moment in what was otherwise a master class in sharing the limelight.
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In lieu of a full-fledged encore with his 14-strong Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), Marsalis entertained with a small combo, delighting an already bouncing crowd with swooping scales of trumpet. -
Wynton Marsalis/Sachal Jazz Ensemble review – lively east-west fling
Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra joined Pakistan’s legendary movie-soundtrack band, the Sachal Jazz Ensemble, for a lively east-west fling in the closing stages of the trumpeter’s UK tour. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Swing at UMS Concert Series
One thing in particular is guaranteed whenever the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs: swing, swing, and more swing. The orchestra, led by trumpeter, educator, and composer Wynton Marsalis did just that during their concert on Sunday afternoon at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, MI. The concert was sponsored by the performing arts center University Musical Society, which is affiliated with the University of Michigan. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis and JALC concert at Chicago Orchestra Hall
There’s a palpable sense of occasion in the air when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returns to Orchestra Hall, and you feel it as soon as you walk into the room.
The presence of so many listeners seated on stage around the band, crowding the terrace area behind it and filling every remaining seat in the house distinguishes this event from most concerts in the grand old venue. Major performances unfold here many nights a week, in other words, but Chicagoans turn these JALC appearances – led by the band’s music director, Wynton Marsalis – into something of a civic occasion.
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The music that didn’t stop: Harvard Lecture #6
In final lecture of his series, Marsalis outlines the rise of jazz against backdrop of repression
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