Big Band Holidays The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Big Band Holidays brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to Frederick P. Rose Hall for a holiday-season big-band concert. The available information does not specify the program, guest performers, or the individual musicians appearing on this date, but the orchestra arrives in its established large-ensemble format, built around jazz soloists and ensemble players.

Based in New York, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has been Jazz at Lincoln Center’s resident orchestra since 1988. Its repertoire stretches from rare historic compositions and new Jazz at Lincoln Center commissions to music associated with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Charles Mingus. AllMusic calls the group “dedicated to preserving America’s jazz heritage” and “one of the premiere big bands in the world.” Beyond its own concerts, the orchestra has performed with the New York, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, and London symphony orchestras, and recorded Congo Square with Ghanaian drum master Yacub Addy. Reviewing another performance, The Guardian praised its “graceful blend of swing grooves,” “languid rigour,” and sound of “silk, style and exquisite sleaze.”