Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis 

This performance is part of Wynton Marsalis’ final season as Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Music Director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Join us in celebrating this icon of the jazz world in his farewell tour with this acclaimed orchestra

WYNTON MARSALIS

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed trumpeter, composer, bandleader, educator, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans in 1961, he studied at The Juilliard School before launching his career with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. Since forming his own band at age 19, Marsalis has performed thousands of concerts in more than 60 countries.

A prolific recording artist and composer, Marsalis has released over 110 albums and written an extensive body of work spanning jazz, classical, orchestral, chamber, and symphonic music. He has won nine Grammy Awards and made history as the first jazz artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields. He remains the only musician to win Grammy Awards in both jazz and classical categories in the same year.

A leading advocate for jazz and music education, Marsalis was instrumental in establishing Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall and serves as Founding Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School. He has authored numerous books, created acclaimed educational programs, and continues to champion jazz as an essential part of American culture.

His many honors include the National Medal of Arts, the National Medal of Humanities, the United Nations Messenger of Peace designation, and the 2023 Praemium Imperiale for Music.

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA 

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988 and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe; in concert halls; dance venues; jazz clubs; public parks; and with symphony orchestras; ballet troupes; local students; and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. 

Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw, and Carlos Henriquez. 

Throughout the last decade, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic; Cleveland Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Czech Philharmonic; Berlin Philharmonic; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic and many others. Marsalis’ three major works for full symphony orchestra and jazz orchestra, All Rise- Symphony No. 1 (1999), Swing Symphony– Symphony No. 3 (2010), and The Jungle– Symphony No. 4 (2016), continue to be the focal point of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s symphonic collaboration.