Jazz at Lincoln Center NewsFlash

Jazz at Lincoln Center
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For Immediate Release: June 13, 2006

For more information, please contact:
Zooey Tidal, Assistant Director (212) 258-9821 ztidal@jalc.org

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Ted Kurland Associates at (617) 254-0007 or agents@tedkurland.com

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LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA with WYNTON MARSALIS
RENAMED:
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA with WYNTON MARSALIS

New York, NY (June 13, 2006) Jazz at Lincoln Center announced today that the not-for-profit organization's resident big band, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, has been re-named the JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS.   As Jazz at Lincoln Center continues to create a worldwide brand, the incredible big band will now bear the organization's name.

Conceived in 1988, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is comprised of 15 of today's finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, and has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra for over 18 years. Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra tours worldwide performing a vast repertoire of compositions and commissioned works by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Wynton Marsalis, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Wycliffe Gordon and many others. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center's programming, the remarkably versatile Orchestra performs music for concerts, dances, and collaborations with symphony orchestras, ballet, modern dance and films. Members regularly conduct education activities such as Jazz for Young PeopleSM concerts, master classes clinics, and lectures both at home and around the world.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra personnel includes: Music Director and Trumpet: WYNTON MARSALIS; Trumpets: RYAN KISOR, SEAN JONES, MARCUS PRINTUP; Trombones: CHRIS CRENSHAW, VINCENT GARDNER; ANDRÉ HAYWARD, Reeds: WALTER BLANDING, VICTOR GOINES, SHERMAN IRBY, TED NASH, JOE TEMPERLEY; Piano: DAN NIMMER; Bass: CARLOS HENRIQUEZ; Drums: ALI JACKSON.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis 2006 PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

7/7/06            Strasbourg, France              Palais de la Musique et des Congres
7/8/06            Vienne, France                    Theatre Antique
7/12/06          Vitoria, Spain                       Polideportivo de Mendizorroza
7/13/06          Malaga, Spain                      Teatro Cervantes
7/14/06          Xativa, Spain                        TBA
7/15/06          Alicante, Spain                     Lucentum
7/16/06          Valencia, Spain                     Palau de la Musica de Valencia
9/14-16/06      New York, New York             Frederick P. Rose Hall
11/16-18/06    New York, New York             Frederick P. Rose Hall

"technical brilliance, stylistic authenticity and tonal sheen" --Chicago Tribune "
..the ensemble work is simply awesome" -Clive Davis, The Times of London.

Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
(formerly known as the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra)

FACT SHEET

"One rarely hears this music played with such technical brilliance, stylistic authenticity and tonal sheen...Here were the throaty reeds, percussive trumpet blasts and visceral sense of swing that have made the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra the greatest large jazz ensemble working today."- Howard Reich, The Chicago Tribune

-The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra personnel includes: Music Director and Trumpet: WYNTON MARSALIS; Trumpets: RYAN KISOR, SEAN JONES, MARCUS PRINTUP; Trombones: CHRIS CRENSHAW, VINCENT GARDNER; ANDRÉ HAYWARD, Reeds: WALTER BLANDING, VICTOR GOINES, SHERMAN IRBY, TED NASH, JOE TEMPERLEY; Piano: DAN NIMMER; Bass: CARLOS HENRIQUEZ; Drums: ALI JACKSON.

-Comprised of 15 of today's finest jazz soloists and ensemble players, the band has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra for over 18 years.

- The band has toured over 300 cities in more than 35 countries on 6 continents.

- Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center's programming, the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs and leads educational events - including Jazz for Young PeopleSM family concert series, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, the Jazz for Young PeopleTM Curriculum, educational residencies, workshops and concerts for students and adults - in New York, across the U.S. and around the world.

To date, 11 recordings featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have
been released and internationally distributed:
on Palmetto Records:
    A Love Supreme (2005)
    Don't Be Afraid...The Music of Charles Mingus (2005)

on Sony/Columbia:
    All Rise (2002)
    Live in Swing City (1999)
    Big Train (1999)
    Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999)
    Jump Start and Jazz (1997)
    Blood on the Fields (1997)
    They Came to Swing (1994)
    The Fire of the Fundamentals (1993)
    Portraits by Ellington (1992)

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has collaborated with many
of the world's leading symphony orchestras:
BBC Philharmonic
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Braunschweig Symphony Orchestra
Chano Dominguez
& The Flamenco Jazz Ensemble
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic
New Japan Philharmonic
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Esperimentale de Repertorio (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Orchestre Nacional de France
Orquesta El Arranque
Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Russian National Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony
Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra
Yacub Addy and Odadaa!

Concerts by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra have been broadcast
worldwide and on the following broadcasts:
- XM Satellite Radio live broadcasts
- 7 Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, carried by PBS stations nationwide;
- Thirteen/WNET's production of Great Performances
- BET J
- WBGO Jazz 88.3 FM
- The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Toshiko Akiyoshi, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Billy Childs, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Fletcher Henderson, Woody Herman, Thad Jones, John Lewis, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Ted Nash, Oliver Nelson, Chico O'Farrill, Sy Oliver, Billy Strayhorn, Ron Westray, Mary Lou Williams, Gerald Wilson, and many others. Guest conductors have included David Berger, Benny Carter, Paquito D'Rivera, Jon Faddis, Jimmy Heath, John Lewis, Chico O'Farrill, Robert Sadin, Ray Santos, Loren Schoenberg and Gerald Wilson.

For more information please visit www.jalc.org.

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