Wynton Marsalis Brings Jazz At Lincoln Center to Whitney Hall 9/25

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is set to play Sunday, September 25, 7 p.m. at Whitney Hall.

HOW: Tickets start at $27.50. Kentucky Center Members save 15% off select seats. Call The Kentucky Center Box Office at 584-7777, toll free at (800) 775-7777, (502) 562-0730 (TTY) or visit www.kentuckycenter.org. Please call (502) 562-0111 (V), (502) 562-0140 (TTY) or visit www.kentuckycenter.org for information about the range of accessibility options we offer to enhance your performance experience.
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Under Wynton Marsalis' direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) performs a repertoire across the full jazz spectrum - from the music's New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performing an expansive range of brilliant new music for quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras, tap dance to ballet, Marsalis has expanded the vocabulary of jazz and created a vital body of work that places him among the world's finest musicians and composers. Marsalis is the Artistic Director of JLCO.
The JLCO is comprised of fifteen of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players and has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. 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.
On this new tour and to celebrate Wynton's 50th birthday, the JLCO will showcase a retrospective of Wynton's music written for big band. The JLCO may also perform the unique repertoire for which it is world renowned: modern jazz renditions of traditional favorites including tunes by Thelonious Monk, classic Blue Note Records selections by Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson and modern compositions and arrangements by jazz contemporaries.