The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is an American big band and
jazz orchestra
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and ...
led by
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Award ...
. The Orchestra is part of
Jazz at Lincoln Center, a performing arts organization in New York City.
History
In 1988 the Orchestra was formed as an outgrowth of its concert series, Classical Jazz, with David Berger conducting. When
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Award ...
became artistic director in 1991, he emphasized the history of jazz, particularly
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based ...
. The first album was ''Portraits by Ellington'' (1992), and seven years later the Ellington centennial was honored with the album ''Live in Swing City: Swingin' with the Duke'' (1999).
Under the leadership of Marsalis, the band performs at its home in Lincoln Center, tours throughout the U.S. and abroad, visits schools, appears on television, and performs with symphony orchestras. The Orchestra backed Wynton Marsalis on his album ''
Blood on the Fields
''Blood on the Fields'' is a two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and treats the history of slavery and its aftermath in the United States of America. The oratorio tells the story of two slav ...
'', which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Since 2015, the Orchestra's albums have been issued on its own label, Blue Engine Records.
Personnel
*
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Award ...
– trumpet
*
Ryan Kisor
Ryan Kisor (born April 12, 1973) is an American jazz trumpeter.
A native of Sioux City, Iowa, Kisor learned trumpet from his father, Larry Kisor, and started playing in a local dance band (the Eddie Skeets Orchestra) at age ten. Kisor began clas ...
– trumpet
*
Marcus Printup
Marcus Edward Printup (born January 24, 1967) is an American jazz trumpeter who attended the University of North Florida Jazz Studies program and went on to work with Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, and Tim ...
– trumpet
*
Kenny Rampton – trumpet
* Chris Crenshaw – trombone
*
Vincent Gardner
Vincent Gardner (born October 31, 1972) is an American trombonist and composer.
Gardner has released six albums on SteepleChase Records and also performs and records in a group with his brother, trumpeter Derrick Gardner.
He is the lead trombonis ...
– trombone
*
Elliot Mason
Elliot Mason (born 13 January 1977) is an English jazz trombonist. He also plays the keyboard and the bass trumpet. He has been praised by such musicians as Michael Brecker for his technical facility and innovative harmonically complex improvisa ...
– trombone
*
Robert Stewart – saxophone
*
Walter Blanding – saxophone
*
Victor Goines
Victor Louis Goines (born August 6, 1961) is a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who has served as president and chief executive officer of Jazz St. Louis since September 2022. From 2000 to 2007, he was director of the jazz program at Juilliard.
...
– saxophone
*
Sherman Irby – saxophone
*
Ted Nash – saxophone
*
Paul Nedzela – baritone saxophone
*
Dan Nimmer
Dan Nimmer (born 1982) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Early life
Nimmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1982. He started playing the piano by ear.Keogh, Tom (June 28, 2008"Jazz Pianist Dan Nimmer Shares the Key to His Success" ...
– piano
*
Carlos Henriquez
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– double bass
*
Obed Calvaire – drums
Discography
* ''Portraits by Ellington'' (1992)
* ''Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: The Fire of the Fundamentals'' (1994)
* ''They Came to Swing'' (1994)
* ''
Blood on the Fields
''Blood on the Fields'' is a two-and-a-half-hour jazz oratorio by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and treats the history of slavery and its aftermath in the United States of America. The oratorio tells the story of two slav ...
'' (
Columbia, 1997)
* ''Live in Swing City: Swingin' with Duke'' (1999)
* ''Big Train'' (Columbia, 1999)
* ''All Rise'' (
Sony Classical
Sony Classical is an American record label founded in 1924 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records. In 1980, the Columbia Masterworks label was renamed as CBS Masterworks Records. The CBS Records Group was acquired by S ...
, 2002)
* ''Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Plays the Music of Duke Ellington'' (Warner Bros., 2004)
* ''Cast of Cats'' (2004)
* ''A Love Supreme'' (2005)
* ''Don't Be Afraid: The Music of Charles Mingus'' (2005)
* ''Congo Square'' (2007)
* ''Portrait in Seven Shades'' (Jazz at Lincoln Center, 2010)
* ''Vitoria Suite'' (
Universal
Universal is the adjective for universe.
Universal may also refer to:
Companies
* NBCUniversal, a media and entertainment company
** Universal Animation Studios, an American Animation studio, and a subsidiary of NBCUniversal
** Universal TV, a ...
, 2010)
* ''
Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues'' (2011)
* ''Live in Cuba'' (Blue Engine, 2015)
* ''
Big Band Holidays
''Big Band Holidays'' is a 2015 Christmas album by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Ce ...
'' (Blue Engine, 2015)
* ''The Abyssinian Mass'' (Blue Engine, 2016)
* ''The Music of John Lewis'' (Blue Engine, 2017)
* ''All Jazz Is Modern: 30 Years of Jazz at Lincoln Center Vol. 1'' (2017)
* ''Handful of Keys'' (Blue Engine, 2017)
* ''United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas'' (2018)
* ''
Una Noche con Rubén Blades
''Una Noche con Rubén Blades (A Night with Rubén Blades)'' is the first live jazz album between Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Rubén Blades. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album. It p ...
'' (2018)
* ''Swing Symphony'' (2019)
* ''Jazz and Art'' (2019)
* ''Jazz for Kids'' (2019)
* ''Big Band Holidays II'' (2019)
* ''Sherman Irby's Inferno'' (2020)
* ''The Music of Wayne Shorter'' (2020)
* ''Black, Brown, and Beige'' (2020)
* ''Rock Chalk Suite'' (2020)
* ''Christopher Crenshaw's The Fifties: A Prism'' (2020)
References
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American jazz ensembles from New York City
Big bands
Lincoln Center
Musical groups established in 1988
Musical groups from New York City
Swing music
Jazz musicians from New York (state)