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JLCO with Wynton Marsalis in New York

JLCO with Wynton Marsalis
Ensemble JLCO with Wynton Marsalis
Date Friday, January 10th, 2020
Time 8:00pm
Event Type Concert
Project Spiritual Sounds and The Jazz Age
Venue Frederick P. Rose Hall
Address Broadway at West 60th Street
Location New York, NY, United States
Venue Phone +1 212-721-6500

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will revisit two of its most acclaimed originals: Victor Goines’ Untamed Elegance and Chris Crenshaw’s God’s Trombones. Each of these suites highlights the ensemble’s boundless creativity, commitment to artistic vision, and the peerless musical range of its individual members.

The show begins with Untamed Elegance, a thoroughly modern trip to the wild and sophisticated Jazz Age of the 1920s. This upbeat, soulful, and characteristically swinging composition reminds us that even the earliest jazz styles are deep, living traditions that continue to inspire awe and delight.
God’s Trombones has been a huge hit with audiences since it premiered in 2012. This epic suite takes inspiration from James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 book of poems, God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. Through seven distinctive movements, Crenshaw utilizes the full power and range of the JLCO—as well as his own amazing voice— to bring these poems to life on a stage built for music.

Personnel

Setlist

Set I: Untamed Elegance

  • The Business of America is Business
  • The Elephant in the Room
  • Bold, Naked, and Sensational
  • Laboratories of Ideas
  • Untamed Elegance: The “It” Thing
  • Drunk as a Skunk

Set II: God’s Trombones

  • Prelude: Listen, Lord – A Prayer
  • The Creation
  • The Prodigal Son
  • Go Down Death – A Funeral Sermon
  • Noah Built the Ark
  • The Crucifixion
  • Let My People Go
  • The Judgment Day