Tickets to the Jazz for Young People ($10 ages 18 & under; $15 adults) are all available at the Alice Tully Hall box office, by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500, or via www.jazzatlincolncenter.org. For group sales, please call (212) 258-9817. Leadership support for Jazz for Young People is provided by The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Additional support is provided by the GE Fund and the Entergy Charitable Foundation. This event is an official part of NY GRAMMY Fest 2003.
Trombonist Wycliffe Gordon was born on May 29, 1967, in Waynesboro, Georgia. Mr. Gordon began playing the trombone at age 12. During high school in Augusta, Georgia, he was honored with a place on the All-State Concert and Jazz Band, as well as McDonald's All-American High School Marching Band and Jazz Band. Mr. Gordon attended Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Florida, where during his sophomore year he met Wynton Marsalis while attending a class Marsalis was teaching. Impressed with Mr. Gordon's playing, Marsalis asked him to perform with him. In June of 1989, Mr. Gordon officially joined Mr. Marsalis' touring and recording group, performing with Mr. Marsalis' Septet for five years. Mr. Gordon has performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) on numerous occasions, including their 1992 tour of the music of Duke Ellington, as well as in Hong Kong, and across the United States and Europe. He has performed with great musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Henderson, Lionel Hampton and Shirley Horn, and, in 1997, recorded an album entitled Bone Structure with fellow trombonist and LCJO member Ron Westray. Currently, Mr. Gordon resides in Augusta, Georgia, where he works as a composer, performer, and teacher at Augusta Music and Dance Company, which he founded. He was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center to compose a score for the 1925 silent film Body and Soul in 2000.
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