Jazz at the NCMA presents Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

The fifth concert of our 2024 Jazz at the NCMA season features an evening with the world’s premier big band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with nine-time Grammy-winning jazz icon Wynton Marsalis.

About Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently serves as managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the director of jazz studies at the Juilliard School, and president of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

Marsalis has been called the “Pied Piper” of jazz and the “Doctor of Swing.” Since his recording debut in 1982, he has released 127 jazz, classical, and alternative recordings and won many awards. He regularly performs in the most prestigious concert halls and is known to play until all hours of the morning in the most inconspicuous local clubs.

About the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Founded in 1988, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tours the world performing a vast repertoire of music, from historic and rare compositions to commissioned works. The group’s compositions and arrangements include works by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Charles Mingus, as well as new music from the group’s unrivalled collection of world-renowned composers and arrangers.

Photos: JALCO: Frank Stewart; Wynton Marsalis: Piper Ferguson

Musician photo and recording policy
No flash or professional photography allowed. No video or audio recording of any kind allowed.

No smoking allowed inside venue gates.

• Concert policies and answers to frequently asked questions
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Through Thursday, May 16, 2024, or while tickets are available
All Jazz at the NCMA tickets must be purchased at one time; discount applies to both member and nonmember pricing.

• Purchasers who buy tickets to three or four Jazz at the NCMA concerts at ONE TIME receive 15% off per ticket
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