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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with
Wynton Marsalis
Saturday, September 29, 2007
at 8:00 pm
Main Stage - $42
RenaissanceJazz sponsored by Renaissance Technologies
With Music Director Wynton Marsalis on trumpet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on stage, this show will be hot! The JLCO consists of today’s finest jazz soloists and ensemble players that make up the resident jazz orchestra at Lincoln Center. The big band performs a vast repertory of rare historic compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus and many others.
In addition the band regularly premieres works commissioned from a variety of composers, including Benny Carter, Wayne Shorter, Joe Lovano and Christian McBride as well as works from current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members.
In their statement of mission and purpose the band states: “We bring people together for a simple purpose: to have a profoundly good time!” Staller Center is proud to open the Main Stage 2007-2008 Season with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Please join us for a profoundly good time!
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