Journey Through Jazz
Wynton Marsalis’s new concert series Journey Through Jazz takes audiences on an odyssey through America’s music. Illustrating his gift for combining prose and music with wisdom and humor, Marsalis leads the crowd through a narrative that explains the evolution of jazz and the blues. These family-friendly concerts, funded by Lynne and Richard Pasculano, help audiences appreciate different aspects of this American art form. The performances are also a rare opportunity to experience the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the intimate and iconic Appel Room.
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Journey Through Jazz Pt. I
Delve into Wynton Marsalis’s new concert series Journey Through Jazz, which takes audiences on an odyssey through America’s music. Illustrating his gift for combining prose and music with wisdom and humor, Marsalis leads the crowd through a narrative that explains the evolution of jazz and the bl...
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Journey Through Jazz Pt. II
JALC presents the second season of its Journey Through Jazz Series, in which Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis focuses on and illuminates a theme with musical examples. The two 2022-23 concerts address the theme of community from different angles. The first concert explores wh...
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Journey Through Jazz Pt. III
Count Basie and Kansas City. Budd Freeman and Chicago. Sonny Rollins and Harlem. The Casa Loma Orchestra and Detroit. These and other communities and masters of the music significantly impacted the development of jazz in America. At the same time, the communities and scenes inspired the sounds of...
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Journey Through Jazz Pt. IV
In the next installment of our celebrated Journey Through Jazz concert series, Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO share personal accounts of their unique relationships with the music.
From local scenes to global concepts, a wide variety of inspirations have shaped the musicians of the JLCO, and these ...
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Journey Through Jazz Part V
The journey continues!
Members of the JLCO pick a composition—perhaps a standard, perhaps their own tune—and lay bare the inner workings of their creative processes and evolutions as artists.
Part V of this fascinating Journey Through Jazz series finds the JLCO at their most open and reveals cr...
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Journey Through Jazz Part VI
The JLCO and Grammy-nominated bassist and composer Carlos Henriquez continue their exploration of Afro-Cuban sounds and influences. Experience bright horn lines and bold harmony, beautiful lyricism, and the elastic syncopation of clave as Henriquez and his fellow artists share the stories behind ...
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Journey Through Jazz pt. VII
Journey Through Jazz: Part VII captures the energy and charm of combo swing music from the late 1920s to mid-’40s, spotlighting works from Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Jazz at the Philharmonic. Part of the Lynne and Richard Pasculano Jazz Series.
