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The Future Of Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis: Ellington Through The Ages at Charlotte Jazz Festival at Knight Theater At Levine Center For The Arts
Courtesy of Caitlin Sangha | Posted on April 25, 2019
Where
Knight Theater At Levine Center For The Arts
Charlotte Jazz Festival
430 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC
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When
Thu, May 2, 2019
7:30 pm
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Wynton Marsalis, bassist Rodney Whitaker, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and saxophonist Dan Block lead an all-Ellington showcase with a group of young rising jazz stars. The band includes 16 of the best young professionals on the scene, many of whom came up through Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band program and love this music as much as our audiences. Ellington’s music is so elegant, so dynamic, so intimately detailed that it takes a group of musicians with a genuine collaborative spark to fully bring out its inner magic, and that is what you will experience....