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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will embark on its Jazz Masterpieces tour across the U.S. from Sept. 8-Oct. 3, kicking off concerts and events in anticipation of the big band’s 20th anniversary next year.
The band will perform selections from a variety of eras including big band arrangements of the legends of Blue Note records—Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver—as well as Count Basie’s Kansas City Suite. In addition, the group will take on new and original music from JLCO soloist Ted Nash’s piece “Portrait in Seven Shades,” inspired by works by modern artists Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Vincent Van Gogh.
For more information on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, go to jalc.org/concerts/jlco.html, jalc.org/jazzcast/jvid_band.html and myspace.com/jazzatlincolncenterorchestra.
Here is the full schedule for the fall tour:
Sept. 8 Baltimore, MD—Shriver Hall
Sept. 10 Morgantown, WV—WVU Creative Arts Center
Sept. 11 Charlottesville, VA—Paramount Theater
Sept. 12 Newport News, VA—Ferguson Center for the Arts
Sept. 13 Greenville, SC—Peace Center for PAC
Sept. 14 Knoxville, TN—Tennessee Theater
Sept. 16 Memphis, TN—Cannon Center
Sept. 17 Meridian, MS—Riley Center
Sept. 18 Meridian, MS—Educational performance at Riley Center
Sept. 19 Dallas, Texas—Meyerson Symphony Center
Sept. 20 Austin, Texas—Paramount Theater
Sept. 22 Galveston, Texas—Grand Opera House
Sept. 24 Oxford, MS—University of Mississippi
Sept. 28 Stamford, CT—Stamford Center for the Arts
Sept. 29 Stony Brook, NY—S.U.N.Y. Stonybrook
Sept. 30 Kingston, NY—Ulster PAC
Oct. 1 Washington, D.C.—Harman Center for the Arts
Oct. 3 Potsdam, NY—S.U.N.Y. Potsdam
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