Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is an American professional big band that is produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, a major performing arts institution structured as a non-profit organization that is housed in its own facility at the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, New York. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., and director of and trumpeter with the Orchestra.

The orchestra was founded in 1988 as part of the Lincoln Center’s summer concert series, "Classical Jazz." In 1991 the JLCO became the resident and touring big band for Jazz at Lincoln Center. The orchestra commissions works, which by early 2000, surpassed 60 by composers that include Benny Carter, Benny Golson, Gerry Mulligan, Geri Allen, Marcus Roberts, Melba Liston, and John Lewis.

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Current members

Wynton Marsalis, music director, trumpet

Ryan Kisor, trumpet

Marcus Printup, trumpet

Kenny Rampton, trumpet

Vincent Gardner, trombone

Chris Crenshaw, trombone

Elliot Mason, trombone

Sherman Irby, alto saxophone

Ted Nash, alto & soprano saxophones, clarinet

Walter Blanding, Jr., tenor & soprano saxophones, clarinet

Victor Goines, tenor & soprano saxophones, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet

Paul Nedzela, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet

Dan Nimmer, piano

Carlos Henriquez, bass

Ali Jackson, drums

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Former members

Sean Jones, trumpet

Seneca Black, trumpet

Rodney Whitaker, bass

Wycliffe Gordon, trombone

Ron Westray, trombone

Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson, alto & soprano saxophones

Todd Williams, soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet

Branford Marsalis, saxophone

Gideon Feldstein, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet

Joe Temperley, baritone & soprano saxophones, bass clarinet

Eric Reed, piano

Eric Lewis, piano

Reginald Veal, bass

Ben Wolfe, bass

Herlin Riley, drums, percussion

Robert Sadin, conductor

Russell Gunn, trumpet

Roger Ingram, trumpet

Wayne Goodman, trombone

Rob Stewart, tenor saxophone

James Carter, baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet

Michael Ward, violin

Tours

The JLCO has made several tours of the United States, first toured Europe in 1995, performed in Russia in 1999, and toured China, Taiwan, Japan, and Australasia in 2000. In spring 2000 the JLCO toured the United States with its production of For Dancers Only.

Selected discography

Jump Start and Jazz (Columbia, 1997) OCLC 37708935

Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Recorded in New York, January 23, 1993, and Los Angeles, August 17 & 18, 1995

Blood on the Fields (Columbia, 1997) OCLC 37265855

Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Recorded Grand Hall of the Masonic Lodge, January 22–25, 1995

Sweet Release & Ghost Story: Two More Ballets (Sony Classical/Columbia, 1999) OCLC 47969476

Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Recorded at Music Hall, Tarrytown, New York, August 11, 1996

Big Train (Sony/Columbia, 1999) OCLC 53304940

Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Recorded in New York, December 20, 1998

Essentially Ellington 2000 - The LCJO Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (Warner Bros., 2000) OCLC 51283882

Recorded at Boettcher Hall, Denver, CO, March 26, 1999, and McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ, May 10, 1999

The Rhythm Road - American Music Abroad

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, August, 2000

All Rise (Sony Classical, 2002) OCLC 50762664

Wynton Marsalis and The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen

Los Angeles, September 14 & 15, 2001

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, May, 2004

A CD of this session was issued by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

Don't Be Afraid: The Music of Charles Mingus

Recorded August 26, 2003 - August 28, 2003

Released October 18, 2005

Conga Square

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra

Live at Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York, May 3 & 7, 2006

Portrait in Seven Shades (Jazz at Lincoln Center/The Orchard, 2010)

Ted Nash and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Recorded in New York, September 6, 2007

Vitoria Suite (Universal, 2010) OCLC 659741065

Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Big Band Holidays (2015)

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