For immediate release: June 30, 2017
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Rebecca Bailey, Publicity Coordinator/Writer
Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College
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Prresigious Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with Wynton Marsalis,
returns to Hop
HANOVER, NH—Led by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) will perform on Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at 7pm, in Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH.
Made up of 15 of today’s most versatile, polished musicians, each able to soar in inventive solos then merge into a soulful, swinging ensemble sound, the JLCO program includes a celebration of New Orleans legend Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941). Jazz’s first great composer, intellect and piano virtuoso, Morton gave us the musical blueprint of New Orleans and jazz as we know it today. This is JLCO’s fourth visit to the Hop.
Celebrating its 30th year, all under Marsalis’ leadership, the JLCO is the premiere performing ensemble of Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose mission is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy. The remarkably versatile JLCO performs and leads events in New York City and across the US and the globe, in schools, parks, jazz clubs and concert hall. Its educational programs annually reach more than 110,000 students, teachers and general audience members, and its vast repertoire ranges from rare historic works to new commissions, including the compositions and arrangements from classic Ellington and Coltrane to music by Pakistani and Ghanaian composers.
Live webcasts and television broadcasts have spread JLCO’s music to an even broader global audience, including through XM Satellite Radio and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center series. JLCO played a major role in relief efforts in the wake of Hurrican Katrina. To date, 14 recordings have been released featuring JLCO and Marsalis.
“Marsalis has been at the pinnacle of American jazz for more than three decades…[with] effortless technique, deep understanding of multiple jazz genres, laid-back cool, and strict adherence to discipline and historical style,” wrote the Orange County (Calif.) Register recently. The JLCO members—“veterans and younger musicians, every one a magnificent virtuoso”—play solos “methodically and meticulously constructed in the style the song demands, yet suffused with intelligence and daring.”
Far from a one-man show, the JLCO benefits from the superb musicianship and professional range of its 15 members, who are all renowned bandleaders and soloists and often take leadership in creating new JLCO programs. JLCO’s resident pianist Dan Nimmer is featured in the tribute to Jelly Roll Morton. Morton (1890-1941) could rightfully lay claim to his self-given title of “the King of Jazz.” The JLCO’s tribute includes classic and never-before-heard arrangements of essential Morton tunes that showcase the contemporary power and the depth of possibility in the earliest jazz, with music that’s earthy, sophisticated and always fun. Born in 1982 in Milwaukee, WI, Nimmer has worked with Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves, George Benson, Clark Terry and many others, and has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Show with David Letterman, The View, The Kennedy Center Honors, Live from Abbey Road and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center, among other broadcasts. He has released four of his own albums on the Venus label (Japan).
MORE ABOUT…
Wynton Marsalis
The managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1961, he began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz Grammys in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984.
Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education, and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp!, illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008.
In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center. In 2001 he was appointed Messenger of Peace by Mr. Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and he has also been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the US State Department through its CultureConnect program. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event raised more than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry-related enterprises, and other individuals and entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans who were impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Marsalis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home - Frederick P. Rose Hall - the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened in October 2004.
The Hopkins Center for the Arts
Founded in 1962, the Hopkins Center for the Arts is a multi-disciplinary academic, visual and performing arts center dedicated to uncovering insights, igniting passions, and nurturing talents to help Dartmouth and the surrounding Upper Valley community engage imaginatively and contribute creatively to our world. Each year the Hop presents more than 300 live events and films by visiting artists as well as Dartmouth students and the Dartmouth community, and reaches more than 22,000 Upper Valley residents and students with outreach and arts education programs. After a celebratory 50th-anniversary season in 2012-13, the Hop enters its second half-century with renewed passion for mentoring young artists, supporting the development of new work, and providing a laboratory for participation and experimentation in the arts.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Led by consummate jazz legend Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is made up of 15 of today’s most versatile and polished musicians, each able to soar in inventive solos then merge into a soulful, swinging ensemble sound. The Hop program includes a joyous celebration of New Orleans legend Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), a composer, intellect and piano virtuoso who indelibly shaped New Orleans history and jazz.
Tuesday, October 3, 2017, at 7pm
Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover, NH
PRICING: $40-75 for adults / $25 for youth
$10 for Dartmouth students
Information: hop.dartmouth.edu or 603.646.2422
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