Video: Wynton Marsalis extends a personal invite to his show in Grass Valley

The Center for the Arts presents
WHAT: Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
WHEN: Friday, March 7, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Veterans Memorial Auditorium
255 South Auburn Street, Grass Valley, CA
TICKETS: $58 members, $68 non-member – General Admission
The Center Box Office – 530-274-8384 ext 14
BriarPatch Co-op Community Market – 530-272-5333
Tickets online at www.thecenterforthearts.org

Internationally acclaimed Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra returns to Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Grass Valley for another special concert presented by The Center for the Arts on Friday, March 7.

Led by Musical Director Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is composed of 15 of jazz music’s leading soloists. The orchestra draws from an extensive repertoire of original compositions by Mr. Marsalis and Ted Nash along with jazz masterworks by the great composers: Ellington, Mingus, Coltrane, and others.

Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz.

In 2005 Marsalis received The National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the United States Government. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan proclaimed Wynton Marsalis an international ambassador of goodwill for the Unites States by appointing him a UN Messenger of Peace (2001) and in 1997, Marsalis became the first jazz musician ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music for his epic oratorio Blood On The Fields.

Over the last few years, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has performed collaborations with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including: the New York Philharmonic; the Russian National Orchestra; the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; the Boston, Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras and the Orchestra Esperimentale in São Paulo, Brazil.

In 2006, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra collaborated with Ghanaian drum collective Odadaa!, led by Yacub Addy, to perform Congo Square, a composition Mr. Marsalis and Mr. Addy co-wrote and dedicated to Mr. Marsalis’ native New Orleans.

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has also been featured in several education and performance residencies in the last few years in: Vienne, France, Perugia, Italy, Prague, Czech Republic, London, England, Lucerne, Switzerland, Berlin, Germany, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Yokohama and Japan.

Jazz at Lincoln Center regularly premieres works commissioned from a variety of composers including: Benny Carter, Joe Henderson, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Wayne Shorter, Sam Rivers, Joe Lovano, Chico O’Farrill, Freddie Hubbard, Charles McPherson, Marcus Roberts, Geri Allen, Eric Reed, Wallace Roney, and Christian McBride, as well as from current and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra members Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon and Ted Nash.

Wynton Marsalis, Music Director, Trumpet
Ryan Kisor, Trumpet
Marcus Printup, Trumpet
Kenny Rampton, Trumpet
Vincent R. Gardner, Trombone
Elliot Mason, Trombone
Chris Crenshaw, Trombone
Sherman Irby, Saxophones
Ted Nash, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Walter Blanding, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet
Victor Goines, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Bb and Bass Clarinets
Paul Nedzela, Baritone Saxophone
Dan Nimmer, Piano
Carlos Henriquez, Bass
Ali Jackson, Drums

—The Center for the Arts

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