Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Jon Batiste
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Sunday, September 23, 2018, 5:30pm Hearst Greek Theatre Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guest Jon Batiste Celebrating Duke Ellington 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 Greg Tardy, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela, baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Dan Nimmer, piano Carlos Henriquez, bass Charles Goold drums is evening’s program will be announced from the stage. e performance will be performed without intermission and will last approximately 90 minutes. Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Jazz at Lincoln Center Visit us at jazz.org. Become our fan on Facebook: facebook.com/jazzatlincolncenter. Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/jazzdotorg. Watch us on YouTube: youtube.com/jazzatlincolncenter . Residency and education activities generously underwritten by Maris & Ivan Meyerson. Cal Performances’ 2018 –19 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. 15 ABOUT THE ARTISTS he Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (1994); e Fire of the Fundamentals (1993); and with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) com - Portraits by Ellington (1992). Visit jazz.org for Tprises 15 of the finest jazz soloists and more information. ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Mar - salis, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s managing and Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring artistic director, this remarkably versatile or - and growing audiences for jazz. With the world- chestra performs a vast repertoire that ranges renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Center-commissioned works to rare historic Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the compositions and masterworks by Duke continued development of the art of jazz by pro - Elling ton, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, ducing a year-round schedule of performance, e lonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy education, and broadcast events for audiences Gilles pie, Benny Good man, Charles Mingus, of all ages. ese productions include concerts, and many others. e JLCO has been the Jazz national and international tours, residencies, at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, weekly national radio programs, television performing and leading educational events in broad casts, recordings, publications, an annual New York, across the United States, and around high school jazz band competition and festival, the globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, a band director academy, jazz appreciation cur - ballet troupes, local students, and an ever- ricula for students, music publishing, children’s expanding roster of guest artists, the JLCO has concerts and classes, lectures, adult education toured over 300 cities across six continents. courses, student and educator workshops, a Guest conductors have included Benny Carter, record label, and interactive websites. Under the John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill, Ray leadership of managing and artistic director Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Wynton Marsalis, chairman Robert J. Appel, Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson, and Loren and executive director Greg Scholl, Jazz at Lin - Schoenberg. e JLCO has been voted best big coln Center produces thousands of events each band in the annual Down Beat Readers’ Poll for season in its home in New York City, Frederick the past four years. P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more In 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the information, visit jazz.org. launch of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its archive of recorded concerts avail - Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic able to jazz audiences everywhere. e first director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world- release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in was recorded on an historic 2010 trip to Havana New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began by the JLCO and was released in October 2015. his classical training on trumpet at age 12, en - Big Band Holidays was released in December tered the Juilliard School at age 17, and then 2015, e Abyssinian Mass came out in March joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He 2016, and e Music of John Lewis came out in made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, March 2017. Handful of Keys , featuring a group and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and of all-star guest pianists, arrived in September classical recordings, which have won him nine 2017. To date, 14 other recordings featuring the Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first JLCO have been released and distributed inter - and only artist to win both classical and jazz nationally: Vitoria Suite (2010); Portrait in Seven Grammys in the same year (he repeated this feat Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007); Don’t Be in 1984). Marsalis is also an internationally Afraid…e Music of Charles Mingus (2005); A respected teacher and spokesman for music ed - Love Supreme (2005); All Rise (2002); Big Train ucation, and has received honorary doctorates (1999); Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live from dozens of US universities and colleges. He in Swing City (1999); Jump Start and Jazz (1997); has written six books; his most recent are Blood on the Fields (1997); ey Came to Swing Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! , Opposite: Wynton Marsalis, photo by Joe Martinez. Jon Batiste, photo by Sasha Israel. 1 ABOUT THE ARTISTS illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by charts as the No. 1 jazz album in the world. Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Batiste is also a coveted brand ambassador fea - Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with tured in campaigns for Chase, Apple, Lincoln Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House Motor Company, and numerous fashion brands, in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz including Bonobos, Ralph Lauren, Barney’s, and artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Nordstrom. He has worked with photographers Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the including Annie Leibowitz, and his personal Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at style has been profiled in various fashion publi - Lincoln Center. In 2001 he was appointed cations, including GQ , Vanity Fair , and Vogue . Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, Secretary- Batiste’s mission is to share his faith, hope, and General of the United Nations, and he has also love with the world around him. been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the US State Chris Crenshaw (trombone ) was born in Department through its Culture Connect pro - omson, Georgia on December 20, 1982. Since gram. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher birth, he has been driven by and surrounded Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by by music. When he started playing piano at age Jazz at Lincoln Center. e event raised more three, his teachers and fellow students noticed than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief his aptitude for the instrument. is love for Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry- piano led to his first gig with Echoes of Joy, his related enterprises, and other individuals and father Casper’s gospel quartet group. Crenshaw entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans started playing the trombone at 11, receiving who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Mar - honors and awards along the way; he graduated salis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz from omson High School in 2001 and re - at Lincoln Center’s home—Frederick P. Rose ceived his bachelor’s degree with honors in jazz Hall—the first education, performance, and performance from Valdosta State University in broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened 2005. Crenshaw was named Most Outstanding in October 2004. Student in the VSU music department and Col lege of Arts. In 2007 he received his master’s Jon Batiste (piano ) is an internationally ac - degree in jazz studies from the Juilliard School, claimed musician, bandleader, and composer. where his teachers included Dr. Douglas Farwell As an educator and television personality, he and Wycliffe Gordon. Crenshaw has appeared spreads his unbridled optimism coupled with a as a sideman on fellow JLCO trumpeter Marcus profound understanding of the arts. Born into a Printup’s Ballads All Night and on Wynton Mar - long lineage of New Orleans musicians, Batiste salis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues . He joined earned his master’s degree at the Juilliard School. the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2006, Aer graduating, he toured globally with his and in 2012 composed God’s Trom bones , a spir - band Stay Human and he currently appears itually-focused work that was premiered by the nightly on national television as the bandleader orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center. and musical director for e Late Show with Stephen Colbert . Batiste is a Forbes “30 under 30” Vincent Gardner (trombone ) was born in Chi - honoree, musical director for e Atlantic , and cago in 1972 and was raised in Hampton, creative director of the National Jazz Museum Virginia. Aer singing, playing piano, violin, in Harlem. He balances a demanding perform - saxophone, and French horn at an early age, ance schedule with speaking engagements, he decided, at age 12, to focus on the trombone. curating events, and occasional acting and pro - Gardner attended Florida A&M University and ducing opportunities, all while relentlessly com - the University of North Florida. He soon caught posing new music. His album Social Music spent the ear of Mercer Ellington, who hired Gardner over a month atop the Billboard and iTunes jazz for his first professional job. He moved to 1 PLAYBILL ABOUT THE ARTISTS n o s u g r e F r e p i P Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Brook lyn, New York, aer graduating from col - Victor Goines (tenor and soprano saxophones, lege, completed a world tour with Lauryn Hill clarinet, bass clarinet ) is a native of New Orleans, in 2000, and then joined the JLCO.