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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

The Democracy! Suite

Photo of musician Wynton Marsalis

Piper Ferguson

Led by Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra presents the European Premiere of The Democracy! Suite as well as a selection drawn from their vast canon of jazz masterworks.

“Jazz music is the perfect metaphor for democracy,” says famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. 

At a time when America, and indeed, the whole world, finds itself at a crossroads, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has been inspired to write a poignant work, The Democracy! Suite, which proves that the joy and beauty of jazz can bring us all closer together. Now a digital album from Marsalis and a septet composed of members of the famed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Democracy! Suite features impassioned compositions that are a reflection of turbulent times, urging us into action.

Presented as a two-part concert, a septet will perform the European Premiere of The Democracy! Suite for the first half and for the second half, the full orchestra will perform a selection of works drawn from their vast canon.

May contain strobe lighting effects and haze.

End time for this performance will be added nearer to the event date.

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