Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Music of Wayne Shorter (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:27:43 minutes | 1,76 GB | Genre: Jazz
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‘He’s at the highest level of our music you can t get any higher than him.’ So says Wynton Marsalis of the legendary saxophonist, composer, and band leader Wayne Shorter. With a legendary career spanning over 60 years, the 11-time GRAMMY award winner (including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy) has released countless classic records and amassed a canon of lyrical, introspective music that stands up to the greatest jazz composers. In 2015, the formidable 81-year-old joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis onstage for three unforgettable nights; the result is The Music of Wayne Shorter, out Jan. 31 on CD and digital formats. For the record, JLCO members arranged beautiful, intricate versions of some of his most classic songs, including ‘Armageddon’ (from 1964 s Night Dreamer), ‘Endangered Species’ (from 1985 s Atlantis), and a very tender, Marsalis-penned take on ‘Teru’ (from 1966 s Adam s Apple). From Art Blakey to Miles Davis, from Weather Report to his own fabled Quartet, Shorter has done perhaps more than anyone to expand the known universe of jazz. Now, The Music of Wayne Shorter takes Shorter to places he s never been before, giving his beloved compositions and hauntingly lush saxophone sound the big band backdrop they ve long deserved. As Marsalis says, ‘Everybody strives to have a personal sound: his sound is definitive’
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Fifties: A Prism (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:35 minutes | 798 MB | Genre: Jazz
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All jazz is modern,” says Wynton Marsalis—and we owe the 1950s for that. The momentous decade became the crucible in which modern jazz was formed, as styles like modal, hard bop, third stream, and more melted together and artists like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Ornette Coleman reached the height of their powers. Now, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Chris Crenshaw has taken inspiration from the era to create The Fifties: A Prism, the newest Blue Engine album.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – Black, Brown and Beige (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:16 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house recording label, will release a present-day recording of Duke Ellington’s groundbreaking masterpiece Black, Brown and Beige by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Captured during a live, Rose Theater performance in 2018, Black, Brown and Beige is Wynton Marsalis’s first recording of the work and Blue Engine’s first release dedicated entirely to Ellington. Black, Brown and Beige will be available exclusively on all digital platforms on March 6, 2020.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:19 minutes | 883 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Sesame Street comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center for a swinging celebration of the show’s 50th anniversary. See some of your favorite feathered and furry friends like Big Bird and Elmo sing classic Sesame Street songs alongside the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis – The Democracy! Suite (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:54 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet‘s performance of The Democracy! Suite aims to entertain, inspire, and uplift audiences with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music.

Led by trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis and featuring seven of jazz’s finest soloists, the concert’s unique repertoire celebrates jazz’s embodiment of freedom and democracy.
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