Jazz extraordinaire Wynton Marsalis is bringing the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center to Melbourne for a performance of All Rise with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Lincoln at Jazz Center artistic director and world-renowned trumpeter, composer and bandleader Wynton Marsalis is one of the most legendary jazz figures of the modern era. He’ll be bringing the Lincoln at Jazz Center orchestra to Melbourne for two very special shows with the MSO this August.
Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Cente
- Friday 25 August 2023 – 7:30pm at Hamer Hall
- Saturday 26 August 2023 – 7:30pm at Hamer Hall
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Marsalis’ legacy spans 127 recordings, with a particular notability for melding jazz and classical genres. He’s won a remarkable nine Grammy Awards – the only musician to win in jazz and classical categories in the same year – plus the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1997 for his seminal oratorio on slavery, Blood on the Fields.
He was also instrumental in the formation of the now-legendary Jazz at Lincoln Center organisation in 1987, a pillar of New York’s famed jazz culture and one of the largest jazz organisations in the United States.
All Rise is one of Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s finest achievements, a 100-minute jazz symphony of a scale not seen before in Australia, crossing musical terrain from African chant and New Orleans parade music to symphonic modernism.
For this performance, they will team up with the entire MSO as well as the MSO Chorus and Melbourne’s premier vocal ensemble, the Consort of Melbourne, conducted by Benjamin Northey across two nights only in Hamer Hall.
Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the MSO know each other very well, after recording masterpiece The Jungle together back in 2019. You can listen to their stellar recording here.
In addition to the performances of All Rise, Melburnians will also be able to witness Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in A Journey Through Jazz on August 20 at Hamer Hall, where they’ll play some of the biggest hits in jazz history. That performance won’t include our beloved MSO, however.
All Rise: Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis and the MSO is happening at Hamer Hall on August 25 and 26. Tickets here.
This article was made in partnership with MSO.
