Marsalis’ Swinging Cities The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Jazz at Lincoln Center102 Columbus Circle, New York 10107
At Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, Marsalis’ Swinging Cities brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra together with Wynton Marsalis. The billing presents the orchestra and Marsalis as the evening’s complete musical focus, with no additional performers, guests, tribute program, record release, residency installment, or late set specified. It is a full orchestra-led program under the Swinging Cities title, placing Marsalis alongside the ensemble named in the bill.
The act is identified here as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, performing under the title Marsalis’ Swinging Cities. No further biographical details, personnel, hometown, prior collaborations, repertoire, or critical quotations are provided for this particular presentation. The available information does establish the scale of the collaboration: Marsalis appears with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra rather than as a separately billed solo performer or in an unspecified small-group configuration. The program’s title is part of the billing, but the material to be played and the meaning of Swinging Cities are not described.
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