Internationally Ellington at Jazz at Lincoln Center

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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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. “Duke was out there in front, dealing with the world as a singular place.”

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