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“Wynton Marsalis has found a way to reinvigorate traditional jazz”—The Telegraph

“Marsalis, a superb technician, welds classic jazz references into a modal jazz palette”—Financial Times

“Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis have been so popular for over 30 yeas, as the music touches audiences young and old”—Opening Night

“Wynton Marsalis still has a touch of the wunderkind about him”—The Times

Nine-time Grammy Award winner, the world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will appear in two sensational concerts at the 27^th Beijing Music Festival 2024. The “Doctor of Swing” has so far released 127 jazz, classical and alternative recordings, and he also serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Director of Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School, and President of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation.

Marsalis is an extraordinarily gifted trumpeter playing with dazzling technical perfection and a feeling for jazz. He organized Lincoln Center jazz concerts and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in 1988, appearing in both contexts as a bandmember and soloist, and at the same time becoming deeply involved in educational activities. Touring throughout the world, Marsalis has identified and met hundreds of promising young jazz players whose musical education he has helped to organize and support. In fact, Marsalis has worked tirelessly to bring huge new audiences, especially young audiences, to jazz.

Wynton Marsalis strongly believes that music has the power to elevate our quality of life and improves the quality of human engagement for individuals, social networks and cultural institutions. His core beliefs are based on jazz fundamentals: freedom and individual creativity (improvisation), collective action and good manners (swing), as well as acceptance, gratitude and resilience (the blues).

In two dedicated performances at the BMF 2024, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra present legacy tunes by Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Fletcher Henderson, and Benny Goodman, alongside delicious selections of Chinese melodies originating in folklore and myth. Marsalis is sure to take Beijing audiences on a colorful journey of radiantly sparkling improvisations.

Track：

Wynton Marsalis: Shanghai Suite                                  100′

I. Swinging on the Bund

II. The Monkey King’s March

III. White Yulan

Ⅳ. Hot Pot!

Ⅴ. The Nine Dragons

Ⅵ. Li Bai’s Blues

Ⅶ. The Five Elements

Ⅷ. From the Casanova to the Peace Hotel to Right Here Tonight

Ⅸ. The first movement: The Shanghai Skyline

The program is subject to change

Artist/Group:

Wynton Marsalis, trumpet/arrangement

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra