Friday evening, August 28, 2015, at 8:00 p.m. severance hall — cleveland, ohio
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
Selections to be announced from the stage.
The concert includes one intermission and will end at approximately 10:00 p.m.
Jazz at Lincoln Center The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich, and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. With the world‐ renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and guest artists spanning genres and generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of performance, education, and broadcast events each season in its home in New York City and around the world, for people of all ages. Jazz at Lincoln Center is led by Robert J. Appel (Chairman), Wynton Marsalis (Managing and Artistic Director), and Greg Scholl (Executive Director). For more information, please visit us at www.jazz.org. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is comprised of 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today and has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads education events in New York, across the United States, and around the globe — in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, and public parks, and with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever‐ expanding roster of guest artists. With Wynton Marsalis as music director, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra spends over a third of the year on tour. The big band performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center‐commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles
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Mingus, Chick Corea,and many others. Education is a major part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s mission. Its educational activities are coordinated with concert and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tour programming. These programs, many of which feature Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members, include the celebrated Jazz for Young People™ family concert series, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, the Jazz for Young People™ Curriculum, and education residencies, workshops, and concerts for students and adults worldwide. Jazz at Lincoln Center education programs directly reach over 110,000 students, teachers, and general audience members each year. Jazz at Lincoln Center, NPR Music, and WBGO have partnered to help create the next generation of jazz programming in public radio under the title Jazz Night in America. The series showcases today’s vital jazz scene while also underscoring the genre’s storied history. Hosted by bassist Christian McBride, the program features hand‐picked performances from across the country, woven with the colorful stories of the artists behind them. Jazz Night in America and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s radio archive can be found at jazz.org/radio. In recent years, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed collaborations with many leading symphony orchestras around the world, including those of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and Brazil’s Orquesta Esperimentale in São Paolo. In 2006, JLCO collaborated About the Artists
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis, Music Director, trumpet Ryan Kisor, trumpet Kenny Rampton, trumpet Marcus Printup, trumpet Vincent Gardner, trombone Chris Crenshaw, trombone Elliot Mason, trombone Sherman Irby, alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Ted Nash, alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet Victor Goines, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet Walter Blanding, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Joe Temperley,* baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Paul Nedzela,* baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Dan Nimmer, piano Carlos Henriquez, bass Ali Jackson, drums Artists subject to change. *Joe Temperley does not appear on this tour; Paul Nedzela is performing on baritone and soprano saxophones, and bass clarinet. Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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Wynton Marsalis with Ghanaian drum collective Odadaa! led by Yacub Addy, to perform “Congo Square,” a composition cowritten by Marsalis and Addy. JLCO has also been featured in several education and performance partnerships, including residencies in France, Italy, England, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and the Czech Republic. Television broadcasts of Jazz at Lincoln Center programs have helped broaden the awareness of its unique efforts, with telecasts aired from North and South America to Europe and Asia. Jazz at Lincoln Center has appeared on several XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts and eight Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts carried by PBS stations in the United States, including a program on October 18, 2004, during the grand opening of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home, Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York. A 2005 broadcast was designated as Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Higher Ground Benefit Concert, raising funds to benefit musicians, music industry‐related enterprises, and other individuals and entities in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. JLCO was also featured in a Thirteen/WNET production of Great Performances titled Swingin’ with Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, and in a BET network series called Journey with Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra from around the world. To date, fourteen albums featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis have been released and distributed internationally.
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Wynton Marsalis serves as managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Mr. Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12 and soon began playing in local bands of diverse genres. He entered the Juilliard School at age 17 and joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Mr. Marsalis made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than seventy jazz and classical albums, garnering him a total of nine Grammy Awards to date. In 1983, he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammy Awards in the same year; he repeated this feat in 1984. As a composer, Mr. Marsalis’s rich body of works includes Sweet Release, Jazz: Six Syncopated Movements, Jump Start and Jazz, Citi Movement/Griot New York, At the Octoroon Balls, In This House On This Morning, and Big Train. In 1997, Mr. Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 1999, he released eight new recordings in his unprecedented Swinging into the 21st series, and premiered several new compositions, including the ballet Them Twos, for a col-
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laboration with the New York City Ballet. That same year, he premiered the monumental work All Rise, commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic along with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Morgan State University Choir. Sony Classical released All Rise in 2002, as recorded on September 14 and 15, 2001, in Los Angeles in the tense days following 9/11, and featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra along with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Morgan State University Choir, Paul Smith Singers, and the Northridge Singers. In 2004, he released The Magic Hour, his first of six albums on Blue Note records. He followed this with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, the companion soundtrack recording to Ken Burns’s PBS documentary of the great African‐American boxer. Additional albums have followed, including Wynton Marsalis: Live at The House Of Tribes (2005), From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (2007), Two Men with the Blues, featuring Willie Nelson (2008), He and She (2009), Here We Go Again (2011), and Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play the Blues (2011). To mark the 200th Anniversary of Harlem’s historical Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2008, Mr. Marsalis composed a full mass for choir and jazz orchestra. The piece premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center and followed with performances at the celebrated church. Mr. Marsalis’s second symphony, Blues Symphony, was premiered in 2009 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, his third symphony, Swing Symphony, was premiered
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in Berlin. Mr. Marsalis is an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of universities and colleges throughout the United States. He conducts education programs for students of all ages and hosts the popular Jazz for Young People™ concerts produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Marsalis has also written and is the host of the video series Marsalis on Music and the radio series Making the Music. He has also written six books. In 2001, Mr. Marsalis was appointed Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, secretary‐general of the United Nations. He has also been designated a cultural ambassador for the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through their CultureConnect program. In 2009, Mr. Marsalis was awarded France’s Legion of Honor, the highest honor bestowed by the French government. Mr. Marsalis has been named to the Bring New Orleans Back Commission, former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s initiative to help rebuild New Orleans culturally, socially, economically, and uniquely for every citizen. Mr. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which raised over $3 million for those impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Earlier, he led the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home — Frederick P. Rose Hall — the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.
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