April 7, 1999
Avery Fisher Hall – New York
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra presents its first-ever collaboration with the New York Philharmonic, “Uptown Blues: Ellington at 100.” Wynton Marsalis and Kurt Masur take turns leading their orchestras in alternating movements of Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite” and Ellington’s jazz arrangement of the same work.
Personnel
- Farid Barron – piano
- Herlin Riley – drums, tambourine
- Rodney Whitaker – bass
- Marcus Printup – trumpet
- Ryan Kisor – trumpet
- Seneca Black – trumpet
- Wayne Goodman – trombone
- Wycliffe Gordon – trombone
- Ron Westray – trombone
- Victor Goines – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Ted Nash – alto sax, soprano sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo
- Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson – alto sax, sopranino sax
- Walter Blanding – tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet
- Joe Temperley – baritone sax, bass clarinet
- Kelley Nassief – vocals
