The Kentucky Center presents The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

The world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is a 15-piece musical group consisting of some of the best ensemble players, soloists and arrangers in jazz music, and led by famed trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis. Their show contains a wide variety of musical works, including original and historic compositions, Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned pieces and masterworks from celebrated musicians such as Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and Charles Mingus.

The JLCO is based in New York City as the resident orchestra of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts. The group was voted the best Big Band in DownBeat Magazine's Readers' Poll four consecutive times from 2013 to 2016.

The JLCO was founded in 1988 and began touring in 1991. Since then, the Orchestra has performed in over 300 cities across six continents, with a number of famous guest conductors including John Lewis, Ray Santos and Robert Sadin.

Marsalis, the co-founder of the Orchestra, is also the artistic director for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis is a nine-time Grammy-winning artist who has recorded more than sixty jazz and classical pieces over the course of his career. In 1997, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, the first jazz musician ever to do so.

Tickets start at $25. Kentucky Center Members call the member hotline at (502) 566-5144. Standard tickets are available at www.kentuckycenter.org/presents, by phone (502) 584-7777, (800) 775-7777, and in-person at The Kentucky Center box office and drive-thru. Please call (502) 566-5111 for information about the range of accessibility options we offer to enhance your performance experience.

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