 | Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis return to the Barbican and East London for their second International Associate Residency in July 2012 with a programme that focuses on new commissions, premieres and collaborations Supported by the SHM Foundation and the City Bridge Trust
The world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis return to the Barbican for their second International Associate residency in July 2012. Following on from their critically acclaimed visit in 2010, the second residency will give audiences the opportunity to experience music performed by some of America’s finest jazz musicians in concerts, workshops, masterclasses, professional development events and talks.
Focusing on new commissions and collaborations, one of the highlights of the residency is the UK premiere of jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' symphonic meditation on the evolution of swing, Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3). The new work can be heard at the Barbican on 25 & 26 July performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.
Taking the programme in exciting new directions, the residency also features two European premieres. The first is Wynton Marsalis’ Congo Square – a composition written by Wynton Marsalis and Ghanaian drum master Yacub Addy. The piece skillfully combines traditional African music with jazz and celebrates the historic Congo Square site in New Orleans, the only location in America where African slaves were allowed to perform music and dance from their motherland. Performed on 10 July by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Yacub Addy's celebrated Ghanaian percussion and vocal ensemble Odadaa!, Congo Square was premiered on 23 April 2006 in Congo Square itself, which is inside the Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans.
The second European premiere on 13 July is Wynton Marsalis’ Abyssinian Mass , which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center and first performed to celebrate the bicentenary of New York City’s Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2008. This large-scale work brings together the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with a 100-voice choir, including Croydon SDA Gospel Choir & London Adventist Chorale and conducted by Damien Sneed, to perform modernist variants of New Orleans dirges and struts, modal excursions of hard-bop and the Ellington big-band legacies of brassy swing, and sumptuously harmonised ballads.
On 16 July the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis are joined by Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martinez, plus musicians Ariacne Trujillo and Jhair Sala , for a concert entitled Afro-Cuban Fiesta. This event provides an opportunity for Marsalis and the orchestra to revisit their impressions and experiences from a recent historic visit to La Havana, Cuba, where they performed with Cuban musicians. The concert explores the connection between the American jazz big band tradition and Afro-Cuban jazz.
Each year, JALC Education produces a variety of education programmes that reach tens of thousands of participants around the world. Working together with the Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning Division, the residency programme includes a day of free workshops and jam sessions for all in East London (details to be announced at a later date), masterclasses with Guildhall School jazz musicians, and a project with the East London Creative Jazz Orchestra. This creative jazz ensemble is formed of up to 30 young people selected in partnership with Music Services from the ten Olympic Gateway Boroughs under the artistic direction of Band Director Paul Griffiths.
Another highlight of the Creative Learning work is the first UK-wide version of Jazz at Lincoln Center's acclaimed Essentially Ellington High School Big Band Jazz programme. Eleven youth jazz orchestras of all standards from across the UK will learn traditional big band charts composed by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and Dizzy Gillespie. They will receive on-site visits and workshops delivered by teams of UK and US jazz musicians and the programme culminates in an event at the Barbican on 14 July with special guests from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The programme is based on the hugely successful annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival which is one of the most innovative jazz education events in the world.
The Creative Learning programme begins earlier in March with a Band Director Academy: led by Jazz at Lincoln Center faculty musicians Todd Stoll, Chad Eby and Ron Carter together with UK jazz musicians Jean Toussaint, Pete Churchill and Martin Hathaway, this one-day workshop on 27 March offers powerful insights into the teaching of jazz and is aimed at amateur and professional jazz orchestra leaders in the UK. The day will focus on big band rehearsal techniques including classes, a demonstration session with a big band, and topic discussions. The day culminates in an evening jam session with the Band Director Academy participants and Jazz at Lincoln Center faculty members, Guildhall School jazz musicians and other special guests. Further concerts and events during the residency will be announced in due course.
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Notes to Editors
Press Information
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Barbican Centre Box Office
0845 120 7550 / www.barbican.org.uk
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
Listings
Tue 27 March 2012, 10am-5.30pm, The Warehouse, Tickets £50
Band Director Academy
An opportunity for jazz orchestra leaders to work with Jazz at Lincoln Center musicians and leading UK jazz musicians on practical rehearsal techniques with big bands.
Tuesday 27 March 2012, 7pm-9pm, Tickets: Free to Band Director Academy participants
Open Jam Session
All Band Director Academy participants are invited to take part in an evening jam session with Jazz at Lincoln Center faculty members, Guildhall School jazz musicians and other special guests.
To book tickets contact the Barbican Box Office on 0845 120 7511. For further information, please contact Jenny Beer on jenny.beer@barbican.org.uk
10-26 July 2012
Barbican and East London venues
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Residency
The world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis return to the Barbican and venues around East London in 2012, following on from their critically acclaimed residency in 2010.
Tue 10 July, 7:30-11pm, Barbican Hall, Tickets: £15-£35
Wynton Marsalis’ Congo Square (European Premiere)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Yacub Addy and Odadaa!
Fri 13 July, 7:30-11pm, Barbican Hall, Tickets: £20-£35
Wynton Marsalis’ Abyssinian Mass (European Premiere)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Damien Sneed, conductor
100-voice choir
14 July 2012, 10.00am – 5.30pm
Essentially Ellington UK
A UK wide expression of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s acclaimed Essentially Ellington High School Big Band Jazz programme. Eleven youth jazz orchestras of all standards from across the UK will perform traditional big band charts composed by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and Dizzy Gillespie.
Mon 16 July, 7:30-11pm, Barbican Hall, Tickets: £15-£35
Afro-Cuban Fiesta
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
with special guests Pedrito Martinez, Ariacne Trujillo and Jhair Sala
Wed 25 & Thu 26 Jul, 7.30pm, Barbican Hall, Tickets £25-85
Wynton Marsalis' Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3)
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Swing Symphony was commissioned by Berliner Philharmoniker in collaboration with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, and the Barbican, for the LSO, Arts Council England and the London 2012 Festival.
Part of London 2012 Festival
Further concerts and events during the residency will be announced in due course.
About the Barbican
A world-class arts and learning organisation, the Barbican pushes the boundaries of all major art forms including dance, film, music, theatre and visual arts. Our creative learning programme further underpins everything we do. In 2012 we celebrate the Olympic year with many of our projects forming part of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival – it is also our 30th Birthday year. Over 1.5 million people pass through our doors annually, hundreds of artists and performers are featured, and more than 300 staff work onsite. Our architecturally renowned centre opened in 1982 and comprises the Barbican Hall, the Barbican Theatre, the Pit, Cinema One (with Cinemas Two and Three opening in Beech Street in September 2012), Barbican Art Gallery, a second gallery The Curve, foyers and public spaces, a library, Lakeside Terrace, a glasshouse conservatory, conference facilities and three restaurants. www.barbican.org.uk.
Barbican International Associates
In 2009, the Barbican announced innovative new partnerships with five of the world’s leading ensembles. Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam and the Los Angeles Philharmonic are the Barbican’s International Associates which come to the Centre for regular residencies. These residencies involve symphonic and chamber music concerts, family events, new commissions, educational and outreach work. The residencies also allow the Barbican to take its own music programming more directly to communities in East London, with events in other venues in the Olympic host boroughs in the run up to 2012 and beyond. Each residency is designed to illustrate the unique musical tradition and sound of these great ensembles. The International Associates programme is supported by the SHM Foundation, the City Bridge Trust, the Gordon family, the Körber Foundation, the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Embassy of the United States of America.
Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio series, television and webstreamed programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curricula for students, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops and interactive websites. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis and Chairman Lisa Schiff, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more information visit www.jalc.org.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, composed of 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra for over 15 years. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S. and around the world; in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, public parks, river boats, and churches; and with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, Sy Oliver, Oliver Nelson and many others. Guest conductors have included Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O'Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson and Loren Schoenberg.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Faculty is drawn from an outstanding group of musicians and educators who have worked with JALC Education programmes for many years. Inspiring thousands of schools, teachers and musicians of all ages, this group has been instrumental in the development of JALC’s renowned programmes Essentially Ellington and Band Director Academy, and they have led workshops and clinics all over the US. Drummer Alvin Atkinson, reed player Ronald Carter, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, trumpeter Terell Stafford, pianist Reginald Thomas, and bassist Rodney Whitaker are all recording artists and faculty leading some of the greatest jazz programs in universities across the US.
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