This week, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis collaborate with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra! Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Adams’s The Chairman Dances, Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1, Prokofiev’s Selections from Romeo and Juliet, and Marsalis’s All American Pep from Swing Symphony. In between, we hear Ellington’s Big Fat Alice’s Blues, Amad and The Mooch.
Broadcast available through January 6, 2025
Adams The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
Shostakovich Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1
Ellington Big Fat Alice’s Blues
Ellington Amad
Ellington The Mooch
Prokofiev Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Marsalis All American Pep from Swing Symphony
Giancarlo Guerrero conductor
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
Wynton Marsalis trumpet
April 2024
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Production
Brian Wise producer
Charlie Post audio engineer
Lisa Simeone host
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