# CD review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis – Jazz and Art 2019: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2019/11/21/cd-review-jazz-at-lincoln-center-orchestra-wynton-marsalis-jazz-and-art-2019-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2019-11-21T19:56:48+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**Music and paintings share so many characteristics – textures, colors, layers, 
line, form, shape – and when these two art forms come together, they create a bold
new medium. Jazz and Art, the latest studio album from the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, lets listeners experience that transcendent combination
firsthand through seven imaginative works from celebrated composers. **

Taking inspiration from artists like Romare Bearden, Piet Mondrian, and Stuart Davis,
the Orchestra constructs elaborate, evocative soundscapes that joyously explore 
the act of creation.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) comprises 15 of
the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Marsalis, Jazz
at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director, this remarkably versatile orchestra
performs a vast repertoire ranging from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln
Center-commissioned works to rare historic compositions and masterworks by Duke 
Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, 
Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. The JLCO has been
the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, performing and leading
educational events in New York, across the United States, and around the globe. 
Alongside symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever-expanding
roster of guest artists, the JLCO has toured over 300 cities across six continents.
Guest conductors have included Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill,
Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson,
and Loren Schoenberg. The JLCO was voted best Big Band in the annual DownBeat Readers’
Poll four years in a row (2013–2016).

In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records, a new
platform to make its archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere.
The first release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, was recorded on a historic
2010 trip to Havana by JLCO and was released in October 2015. Big Band Holidays 
was released in December 2015, The Abyssinian Mass came out in March 2016, and The
Music of John Lewis came out in March 2017. Handful of Keys, featuring a group of
all-star guest pianists, arrived in September 2017. To date, 14 other recordings
featuring the JLCO have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite(
2010); Portrait in Seven Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007); Don’t Be Afraid…The
Music of Charles Mingus (2005); A Love Supreme (2005); All Rise (2002); Big Train(
1999); Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live in Swing City (1999); Jump Start
and Jazz (1997); Blood on the Fields (1997); They Came to Swing (1994); The Fire
of the Fundamentals (1993); and Portraits by Ellington (1992). Visit jazz.org for
more information.

Wynton Marsalis (Trumpet) is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln
Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana
in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The
Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. 
He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than
60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983,
he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the
same year and repeated this feat in 1984. Marsalis is also an internationally respected
teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates 
from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most
recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and 
published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can
Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997,
Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize
in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at
Lincoln Center. In 2001, he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, 
Secretary-General of the United Nations, and he has also been designated cultural
ambassador to the United States of America by the U.S. State Department through 
their CultureConnect program. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane
Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $
3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-
related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater
New Orleans who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Marsalis helped lead the effort
to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home—Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first education,
performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.

**Tracks**

01. Stuart Davis for the Masses: The Mellow Pad
 02. Stuart Davis for the Masses:
Garage Lights 03. Stuart Davis for the Masses: New York 04. Blue Twirl 05. Bearden(
The Block) 06. Air, Earth, Fire, Water (Orisha Medley) 07. Winslow Homer: Homer’s
Waltz 08. Winslow Homer: Homer’s Blues 09. The Repose in All Things 10. Twilight
Sounds

**Wynton Marsalis – Music Director, Trumpet**
 **Ryan Kisor – Trumpet** **Kenny 
Rampton – Trumpet** **Marcus Printup – Trumpet** **Vincent Gardner – Trombone** **
Chris Crenshaw – Trombone** **Sam Chess – 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** **Camille
Thurman – Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet** **Paul Nedzela – Baritone and
Soprano Saxophones, Bass Clarinet** **Dan Nimmer – Piano** **Carlos Henriquez – 
Bass** **Jason Marsalis – Drums**

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