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Reliving the Heyday of Kansas City Swing
It is the beginning of the second year for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home at Columbus Circle, but the 18th year since the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra became the institution’s resident jazz band. The second statistic is the more meaningful.
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Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrate Kansas City and Count Basie
On Saturday, September 22, 23 & 24, 2005, at Rose Theater, 8 pm The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs the music of influential Kansas City jazz musicians, particularly the legendary Count Basie and his spare signature piano style.
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Saxophonist Frank Wess, who played in Count Basie’s big band, joins the orchestra to play some of the best of Kansas City’s boogie-woogie jazz.
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Wynton Marsalis: Blowing his own trumpet
The leading voice in American jazz is bringing his epic work for choir, orchestra and jazz band to Britain. All the music of his country is there, the composer tells Michael Church Keep reading »
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Wynton visiting the Juvenile Academic Centre in Caracas
¡Increíble!, no paraba de decir Wynton Marsalis desde su llegada a la sede del centro académico infantil del Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela.
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En el lobby, lo esperaba un sexteto de percusionistas y un cuarteto de trompetas que lo dejó sin habla. -
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in São Paulo
Sao Paulo - The jazz has many ways, take sidetrips and embrace many parents, not because it did not become Jazz.That seems to be the lesson that the north american trumpeter and band leader Wynton Marsalis intended to teach to almost 10,000 people that went to Ibirapuera Park Sunday morning, to ear the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. The park was animated, neither hot or cold and the audience watch the show seated on the grass.
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Wynton is going to play in São Paulo and Caracas
The south American tour goes on and Wynton with the LCJO is now in Brasil.
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Marsalis, al frente de una gran orquesta
The Argentinian newspapers La Nacion, Pagina12 published a review about the recent concert held by Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in Buenos Aires, on June 14 and 15, 2005.
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The concert took place at Teatro Gran Rex (instead of Teatro Colòn) because of the argentinian workers strikes that caused traffic snarls throughout Buenos Aires. -
Big-Band Music Without the Weight of Nostalgia
You have to work a little at understanding Thad Jones, the trumpeter and composer. He arrived in New York in 1954, a decade after bebop exploded. He spent nine years playing and arranging with the Count Basie band, and made some lovely but generally overlooked small-group records under his own name. In the mid-1960’s, when so much jazz was open-ended, small-group expressionism, he directed all his energies toward an immaculately sculptured big band.
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Wynton Marsalis swings the music of Thad Jones
Jazz at Lincoln Center closes the 2004-2005 inaugural season in Frederick P. Rose Hall by celebrating the music of legendary jazz trumpeter, cornetist and composer, Thad Jones, with two very special events. On May 19 – 21 at 8:00pm in Rose Theater, the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will perform Swinging Music of Thad Jones, an interpretation of Thad Jones’s work, including new arrangements by Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra trombonist Vincent Gardner. For this concert in Rose Theater, special guests Billy Harper (tenor sax), Jerry Dodgion (alto sax) and Marc Cary (piano) will join the orchestra.
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Don Quixote Rides Again, With an Ellingtonian Sidekick
More than two hours of original jazz music was played at Rose Theater on Thursday night. It was shaped around stories from “Don Quixote” and scored for 15 musicians and 2 singers, with a professional actor reading about 5,000 words of Cervantes in and around 23 songs and instrumental sketches. It was ambitious, well played, deeply Ellingtonian - and completely indigestible.
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