Heroines, Desire, and the Pursuit of Happiness The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Experience originals and bold new big band arrangements of Wynton Marsalis' most emotionally charged works. From In This House, On This Morning and Blood on the Fields to All Rise, From the Plantation to the Penitentiary, and last year’s Afro!, his most provocative pieces feature a heroine delivering the most significant idea. From 1983’s Hot House Flowers and 1989’s Blue Interlude to 1998’s The Midnight Blues to the third movement of 2026’s Cello Concerto, he returns again and again to the unscripted electricity between couples in mutual pursuit saying, “Love is the spark that gives life its sweetest magic.” This program showcases jazz’s enduring power to move the heart, heal the weary, and conjure up the moon on a starless night.

Made possible by the John and Jody Arnhold Innovation Fund.

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