| Ensemble | JLCO with Wynton Marsalis |
|---|---|
| Date | Saturday, October 29th, 2016 |
| Time | 8:00pm |
| Event Type | Concert |
| Project | The Jazz Age: Untamed Elegance |
| Venue | Frederick P. Rose Hall |
| Address | Broadway at West 60th Street |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Venue Phone | +1 212-721-6500 |
A grand decade when “the parties were bigger, the pace was faster, the buildings were higher, the morals looser,” jazz defined the Roaring Twenties – a time also known as the Jazz Age. 100 years after the first known jazz recording, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis transports audiences to the wild and sophisticated 1920s. Led by master saxophonist and veteran JLCO member Victor Goines, the Orchestra will showcase the hot jazz of New Orleans, the sweet sounds of 1920s dance bands, and demonstrate how the integration of the two led to the Swing Era of the 1930s. This concert will feature essential compositions by artists including Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, and Louis Armstrong and His Hot 7. Goines will also debut a brand new composition written for the Orchestra, inspired by the sounds, styles, and culture of the Prohibition years. He is an expert at these early jazz styles, and he also possesses a vast knowledge of contemporary jazz vocabulary, as demonstrated in his original work Crescent City, composed for fellow New Orleans native Branford Marsalis. The combination of Goines’ deep vocabulary with the hot and sweet sounds of the 1920s will make for an upbeat and swinging affair, bringing the untamed elegance of the Jazz Age to New York’s House of Swing.
Notes
Jon Irabagon will joining the JLCO as a special guest on Saxophone for these performances.
Free pre-concert discussion nightly, 7pm.
Personnel
- Ali Jackson – drums, tambourine
- Adam Birnbaum – piano
- Carlos Henriquez – bass
- Kenny Rampton – trumpet
- Shareef Clayton – trumpet
- Marcus Printup – trumpet
- Chris Crenshaw – trombone
- Elliot Mason – trombone
- Vincent Gardner – trombone
- Victor Goines – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Ted Nash – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo
- Sherman Irby – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute
- Walter Blanding – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet
- Paul Nedzela – baritone sax, bass clarinet
- Jon Irabagon – tenor sax
Setlist
Set I:
- Big John Special
- Singin’ the Blues
- Double Check Stomp
- Dead Man Blues
- Squabblin’
- East St. Louis Toodle-oo
- My Pretty Girl
- Mood Indigo
- Milenberg Joys
Set II: Untamed Elegance (composed by Victor Goines)
- The Business of America is Business
- The Elephant in the Room
- Laboratories of Ideas
- Untamed Elegance: The “It” Thing
- Drunk as a Skunk
- Bold, Naked and Sensational
