MotorCity Casino Hotel Welcomes Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at Sound Board, 6/9

MotorCity Casino Hotel has announced the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, performing live at Sound Board on Wednesday, June 19, at 8:00pm.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, is made up of 15 of the world's finest soloists, ensemble players and arrangers in jazz music today. The orchestra has performed collaborations with many of the world's leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston, Chicago, and London Symphony Orchestras, the Orchestra Esperimentale in Sao Paolo, Brazil and others. In 2005 Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proclaimed Marsalis an international ambassador of goodwill for the United States by appointing him a UN Messenger of Peace (2001).

Tickets ($50.00, $45.00 and $40.00) go on sale Friday April 19 at all Ticketmaster locations and Ticketmaster.com. To charge tickets by phone, call (800) 745-3000. Tickets are also available through the Sound Board Box Office Wednesday, Friday-Sunday.