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  • Birth of the American Orchestra

    Posted on December 14th, 2014 in Concerts | 1

    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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  • Wynton Marsalis on Jazz at Lincoln Center and States’ Rights

    Posted on October 25th, 2007 in Profiles & Interviews

    Tonight’s Benny Carter Centennial kicks off Jazz at Lincoln Center’s fall/winter season, which boasts a lineup that’s sure to have aficionados mobbing the Allen Room each week. Artistic director Wynton Marsalis took time out from the festivities for a quick chat with Vulture about this year’s lineup, his plans for a Civil War opera, and what it’s like being the only jazzman anyone’s ever heard of.

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  • Jazz Master’s Signature, Written in Sax and Brass

    Posted on October 22nd, 2007 in Review

    Benny Carter spread his aesthetic throughout jazz from the 1920s to the 1960s, and he did it in a number of ways. Jazz exists first in the public imagination through its soloist stars, and from the mid-’20s onward Carter was a great improviser — first on alto saxophone, then on trumpet — though he didn’t satisfy anyone’s picture of a jazz genius as a troubled, mercurial man-child; he was private and professional.   Keep reading »

  • Wynton plays for the Benny Carter Centennial

    Posted on October 11th, 2007 in Concerts | 1

    From October 15-21, Jazz at Lincoln Center opens the 2007-08 season with the Benny Carter Centennial throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall on Broadway at 60th St. in New York City . Wynton with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform the music of this legendary jazz musician on October 19 & 20, 2007. Anchor and Managing Editor of “NBC Nightly News” Brian Williams will host the October 19th concert and former New York Giants running back and “Today Show” correspondent Tiki Barber will host the October 20th concert.

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  • The Duke and the Count: LCJO with Wynton Marsalis in the Allen Room

    Posted on October 25th, 2004 in Concerts

    This evening, October 25, 2004, at 7:30pm marks the only opportunity this season to experience the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton in The Allen Room.
    Unfolding under the stars are Duke Ellington’s 1943 Black, Brown, & Beige, a three-movement symphony, and the most important and successful longform work in the history of jazz.

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  • Wynton Marsalis on Benny Carter

    Posted on July 16th, 2003 in News

    People often speak of whether an artist can live up to the art form,” Wynton said when Benny Carter received a Kennedy Center honor in 1996. “But Benny Carter is one of the rare instances where we wonder if the great art created can live up to him.

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  • The Kennedy Center Honors: The Grand Prize

    Posted on December 9th, 1996 in Review

    Last night’s Kennedy Center Honors gala paid tribute to the artistic journey. Sure, it celebrated playwright Edward Albee, composer and instrumentalist Benny Carter, country music star Johnny Cash, actor Jack Lemmon and dancer Maria Tallchief.   Keep reading »