Jazz at the Lincoln Centre Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Dublinjazz.ie are proud to bring to Ireland, for the first time ever, Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. A truly memorable occasion that will live in the memories for years to come.

Jazz at the Lincoln Center is a beacon for the preservation and development of Jazz in the world. The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. Because jazz is swinging, it dedicates that freedom to finding and maintaining common ground with others. Because jazz is rooted in the blues, it inspires us to face adversity with persistent optimism.

Following their performance in Dublin Jazz at The Lincoln Center Orchestra will perform in The Barbican Centre, Amsterdam, Brussels, Zurich, Geneva, Vienna, Luxembourg, Essen and Munich.  

Wynton Marsalis is a world-renowned trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and a leading advocate of American culture. He presently 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 has been called the “Pied Piper” of jazz and the “Doctor of Swing.” Since his recording debut in 1982, he has released 127 jazz, classical and alternative recordings and won many awards, from a home cooked meal to honors that require a tuxedo. He regularly performs in the most prestigious concert halls and is known to play until all hours of the morning in the most inconspicuous local clubs. From the very beginning of his career, education has been vital to his mission. He has taught and mentored a voluminous number of musicians who have gone on to play, teach and advocate in their own brilliant ways. Through these relationships Marsalis has ensured that the legacy of jazz music will continue to propagate for generations to come. 

Over the past four decades, Marsalis has rekindled and animated widespread international interest in jazz through performances, educational activities, books, curricula, and relentless advocacy on public platforms. Today, Marsalis continues the renaissance that he sparked in the early 1980s, attracting new generations of young talent to jazz and illuminating the mythic meanings of jazz fundamentals. 

Marsalis performs and composes across the entire spectrum of jazz and has written jazz-influenced chamber music and symphonic works for revered classical ensembles across the US and abroad. He is inspired to experiment in an ever-widening palette of forms and concepts that constitute some of the most advanced thinking in modern jazz and in American music on a broad scale. 

"The swing outfit brought silk, style and exquisite sleaze" - John Fordham, The Guardian

"The swing outfit brought silk, style and exquisite sleaze" - John Fordham, The Guardian 

"There is no holding back Wynton Marsalis" - Richard Fairman, The Financial Times 

"Time and again Marsalis played with wonderful clarity and lyricism" - London Jazz News

WYNTON MARSALIS, Music Director, Trumpet 
​​​​​​​RYAN KISOR, Trumpet 
KENNY RAMPTON, Trumpet 
MARCUS PRINTUP, Trumpet 
VINCENT GARDNER, Trombone 
CHRIS CRENSHAW, Trombone, The Golkin Family Chair 
ELLIOT MASON, Trombone 
SHERMAN IRBY, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet 
TED NASH, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet, Piccolo 
VICTOR GOINES,  Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet 
ABDIAS ARMENTEROS, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet  
PAUL NEDZELA, Baritone and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet 
DAN NIMMER, Piano, The Zou Family Chair 
CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, Bass, The Mandel Family Chair in honor of Kathleen B. Mandel 
OBED CALVAIRE, Drums

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Venue Information - The National Concert Hall

The National Concert Hall sits proudly on Earlsfort Terrace in Dublin’s city centre and is home to the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Music Network and Music Generation. Next door to the picturesque Iveagh Gardens and in the heart of a commercial district known as the National Concert Hall Quarter, it hosts over 1000 events per annum. Its mission, to foster and celebrate the appreciation, knowledge, enjoyment and pure love of music as an integral part of Irish life.