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Blue Engine Records announces “A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration” featuring The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
New digital album includes beloved Sesame Street songs performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and iconic Sesame Street characters Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center to Broadcast “Ella: Forever the First Lady of Song” on November 14
Jazz at Lincoln Center will broadcast one of its most popular concerts, Ella: Forever the First Lady of Song, online on Saturday, November 14 at 7:00p.m. EDT. Keep reading »
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El trompetista y compositor estadounidense Wynton Marsalis lanza “The Ever Fonky Lowdown”, obra musical sobre la libertad democrática, el abuso de poder, el racismo y la corrupción.
Interpretada por la orquesta Jazz at Lincoln Center, con Wynton Marsalis en composición y trompeta, y la participación de los cantantes Christie Dashiell, Ashley Pezzotti, Camille Thurman y Doug Wamble, “The Ever Fonky Lowdown”, obra conceptual emotiva y poderosa que fuera presentada recientemente en vivo en el Lincoln Center de Nueva York, cuenta con el actor Wendell Pierce (“The Wire”, “Treme”, “Jac Ryan”) como narrador. Keep reading »
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Watch Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration on PBS
On October 30, Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration will debut on PBS stations nationwide (check local listings). In this hour-long special—filmed in front of a sold-out audience at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater Keep reading »
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El disco de Marsalis que denuncia la desigualdad
Wynton Marsalis lanzó un álbum que refleja una obra emotiva y poderosa en la cual se retratan inequidades sociales e intolerancias diversas que se ven tanto en Estados Unidos como en el mundo en general. Keep reading »
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Announcing The Ever Fonky Lowdown, Wynton Marsalis’s latest extended composition, a groundbreaking, satirical look at democratic freedom, abuse of power, racism, and cultural corruption.
Wynton Marsalis’s exploration of socio-cultural and political issues has yielded some of his most inspired and provocative work over the last four decades including the GRAMMY® Award-winning Black Codes (From the Underground) in 1985, Blood on the Fields ─ the first jazz composition ever to win a Pulitzer Prize─ in 1996, All Rise in 2002 (performed by Symphonic Orchestras the world over to great acclaim), and From the Plantation to the Penitentiary in 2007, which according to one reviewer, “reveals some important truth about this country with a lot of anger and heart.” Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces Summer Jazz Academy, Free Virtual Camp Designed and led by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Guest Artists
Jazz at Lincoln Center offers the largest jazz education program network in the world, and today Jazz at Lincoln Center announced its latest educational initiative designed to foster the next generation of jazz musicians, fans, and supporters. Keep reading »
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REVIEW: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s (JLCO) Christopher Crenshaw Composed and Arranged ‘The Fifties: A Prism’
Should you be counting, this is the fourth review in this weird year of 2020 for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) and their label, Blue Engine Records, which like all but the Wayne Shorter album, are being delivered only digitally. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis On KU Basketball, Jazz And The State Of Things
A new jazz album is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Lied Center of Kansas by honoring the Kansas Jayhawks. Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Chronicles Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Performances
Since it was founded in 2015, Blue Engine Records has been documenting the work of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra—an effort gathering steam with a series of digital releases suffused with musical, social and even spiritual import. Keep reading »
