The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and South African musicians will perform essential South African music, with each song chosen by a guest performer. Special guests include three New York-based South African vocalists - Nonhlanhla Kheswa, Melanie Scholtz and Jazz at Lincoln Center fan-favorite Vuyo Sotashe-plus five top instrumentalists from South Africa. […]
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Songbook is a vast innovative body of original work, produced over the past decade. With members such as Victor Goines, Ted Nash, Sherman Irby, Marcus Printup, Vincent Gardner, and Wynton Marsalis, this concert is a collection of the JLCO's finest and most stylistically diverse compositions. Please register here: Jazz […]
When one thinks of “Jews and jazz," names such as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stan Getz and others come to mind, American-born all. But what of the earlier generation of European-born Jewish musicians — klezmorim — who, upon arrival, were obliged to learn two new languages: English and jazz? How did they navigate through a […]
