Results for "Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis"

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is comprised of 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. This remarkably versatile orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Billy Childs, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others. The JLCO has toured over 300 cities in more than 35 countries on 6 continents.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: The Music of Wayne Shorter

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

As a saxophonist, founding member of Weather Report and member of Miles Davis' second great acoustic quintet, it won't be hard to find Wayne Shorter's name in the pages of modern jazz history. But the massive The Music of Wayne Shorter highlights a sometimes-overlooked element of Shorter's musicianship: His ability to compose, which has contributed “Footprints," ...

Innervisions, Improvisations and Other Jazz Fevers

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Lili Añel Better Days Winding Way Records 2019 Singer-songwriter Lili Añel and Better Days sound cut straight out of the northeast US. It's more than the geographic location of Añel's birth (Spanish Harlem, “El Barrio," in New York) or raised (South Bronx), and it's more than ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Big Band Holidays II

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Jazz at Lincoln Center Big Band Holiday concerts, featuring the JALC Orchestra with Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis and guests, are a welcome addition to New York City holiday jazz traditions. Big Band Holidays II presents the second set of live recordings from these concerts beginning from 2015, the year that the JALC Orchestra released ...

You Can Never Be Too Magical - Celebrating Esperanza Spalding

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This week we feature new releases from vocalists Kat Edmonson, Tamuz Nissim, Maria Schafer and JD Walter with birthday shout outs to pianists Lil Armstrong, Marc Cary and Jutta Hipp, bassist Katie Thiroux, trumpeter Jeannie Tanner, and vocalist Ed Reed, among others. In the first hour, a celebration of Esperanza Spalding's latest Grammy win for Jazz ...

Christmas In My Soul

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

Includes more Christmas songs penned by women, with holiday recordings by Dave Stryker, Laila Biali, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Rebecca Angel, plus new releases by Youn Sun Nah, Chloe Perrier, Fostina Dixon, and Elena Gilliam, with birthday shout outs to Bob Dorough, Sue Maskaleris, Diane Schuur, Sean Harkness, Edith Piaf, Camille Thurman ...

Big Band Holidays II

By JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year; Cool Yule (featuring Catherine Russell); We Three Kings (featuring Denzal Sinclaire); O Tannenbaum (featuring Aretha Franklin); Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow; (Everybody's Waitin' for) The Man with the Bag (featuring Veronica Swift); What Will Santa Claus Say? (When He Finds Everybody Swingin') (featuring Catherine Russell); Brazilian Sleigh Bells; Silver Bells (featuring Catherine Russell); Snowfall; Silent Night (featuring Denzal Sinclaire).

The Music of Wayne Shorter

By JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS

Label: Blue Engine Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Disc One: Yes or No; Diana; Hammer Head; Contemplation; Endangered Species; Disc Two: Lost; Armageddon; The Three Marias; Teru; Mama "G."

Never Forget to Say Thank You

By MARY FOSTER CONKLIN

This week we feature Grammy nominees and finalists from the Hot House/Jazzmobile NYC Readers Jazz Awards, a new release from Alice Ricciardi and Pietro Lussu, plus birthday shout outs to June Christy, Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mandel, Etta Jones, pianist Geoffrey Keezer and Michelle Ann May of Musique Noire, among others. Playlist Musique Noire “Pretty ...