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Internationally Ellington at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Courtesy of Colleen Verbus | Posted on March 21, 2023

Where

Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle
New York, NY
Map
212-258-9800

Internationally Ellington at Jazz at Lincoln Center

When

Sat, April 1, 2023
8:00 pm

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Musicians

Joe Block
piano
Walter Blanding
saxophone, tenor
Steve Wilson
saxophone
Grace Fox
trumpet
Noah Halpern
trumpet
Jacob Melsha
trombone
Rashaan Salaam
trombone
Jasim Perales
trombone
Zoe Obadia
saxophone
Josh Lee
saxophone
Daniel Cohen
saxophone
Robbie Lee
vocals

About

Herlin Riley, Walter Blanding, Steve Wilson, and music director Joe Block join forces with some of jazz’s greatest young musicians, handpicked by JALC's Managing and Artistic Director, Wynton Marsalis.

The fruits of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s educational mission will be on display in Internationally Ellington, featuring some of the greatest young talent in jazz meeting the challenges posed by Duke Ellington, JALC’s lodestar and jazz’s greatest composer.

“Duke played with musicians all over the world, incorporated so many people into his band, wrote music for all the different cultures – everything from the Far East Suite to the Shakespearean suite (Such Sweet Thunder) to the Latin American Suite to the Liberian Suite,” says Marsalis...

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