JLCO on Tour

Big Band Holidays
Featuring Vocalists
Ekep Nkwelle and Robbie Lee

Dec 9–Dec 15, 2024

 

Founded in 1988, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tours the world performing a vast repertoire of music, from historic and rare compositions to commissioned works. The group’s compositions and arrangements include works by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Charles Mingus, as well as new music from the group’s unrivalled collection of world-renowned composers and arrangers.

If you’re interested in booking the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis, please contact [email protected] or 212.258.9800.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Personnel

  • CHRIS CRENSHAW, Music Director, Trombone, The Golkin Family Chair
  • RYAN KISOR, Trumpet
  • KENNY RAMPTON, Trumpet
  • MARCUS PRINTUP, Trumpet
  • MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ, Trumpet *for Wynton Marsalis
  • ELLIOT MASON, Trombone
  • DION TUCKER, Trombone *for Vincent Gardner
  • SHERMAN IRBY, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
  • ALEXA TARANTINO, Alto and Soprano Saxophones, Flute, Clarinet
  • CHRIS LEWIS, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet *for Victor Goines
  • ABDIAS ARMENTEROS, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, The Zou Family Chair in Saxophone
  • PAUL NEDZELA, Baritone and Soprano Saxophones, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet
  • DAN NIMMER, Piano, The Zou Family Chair in Piano
  • CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, Bass, The Mandel Family Chair in honor of Kathleen B. Mandel
  • OBED CALVAIRE, Drums
  • EKEP NKWELLE, Vocals
  • ROBBIE LEE, Vocals
  • * = Substitute Musicians

Tour Dates

December 3, 2024

7:30PM

University of California, Davis - Mondavi Center
Davis, CA

December 5, 2024

8PM

Irvine Barclay Theatre
Irvine, CA

December 6, 2024

7:30PM

Rio Theatre
Santa Cruz, CA

December 7, 2024

7:30PM

SF Jazz
San Francisco, CA

December 8, 2024

7:30PM

Mesa Arts Center
Mesa, AZ

December 9, 2024

7:30PM

Del E. Webb Performing Arts Center
Wickenburg, AZ

December 13, 2024

7:30PM

Nashville Symphony - Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Nashville, TN

December 14, 2024

8PM

University of Delaware - Thompson Theatre
Newark, DE

December 15, 2024

7:30PM

Long Island University - Tilles Center for the Performing Arts
Greenvale, NY

Meet the Orchestra

Jazz at Lincoln Center ORchestra With Wynton Marsalis

Learn more about the band members that make up the storied JLCO with Wynton Marsalis.