Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/21/25
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
60 Gibbs St.
Rochester, NY 14604
Categories
The Rochester International Jazz Festival is proud to present the renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis + Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis performing The Democracy! Suite. They return to RIJF for the first time since 2007 to perform on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at 8 PM at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.
Tickets are $93/$83/$63/$43 + service charges and go on sale this Friday, December 13, at 10 a.m. only at Rochesterjazz.com or by calling (585) 454-2060.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988 and spends over a third of the year on tour across the world. Featured in all aspects of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s programming, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs and leads educational events in New York, across the U.S., and around the globe in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, public parks, and with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under Managing and Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works. Read more
Wynton Marsalis – Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1961 to a musical family, Mr. Marsalis was gifted his first trumpet at age six by Al Hirt. By 8, he began playing in the famed Fairview Baptist Church Band led by Danny Barker. Yet it was not until he turned 12 that Marsalis began his formal training on the trumpet. Subsequently, Wynton began performing in bands all over the city, from the New Orleans Philharmonic and New Orleans Youth Orchestra to a funk band called the Creators. His passion for music rapidly escalated. As a young teenager fresh out of high school, Wynton moved to New York City in 1979 to attend The Juilliard School to study classical music. Once there, however, he found that jazz was calling him. His career quickly launched when he traded Juilliard for Art Blakey’s band, The Jazz Messengers. By 19, Wynton hit the road with his own band and has been touring the world ever since. Read more
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet with Wynton Marsalis performing The Democracy! Suite – “Jazz music is the perfect metaphor for democracy,” says the famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. At a time when America—and indeed, the whole world—finds itself at a crossroads, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has been inspired to write a poignant and buoyant work, The Democracy! Suite, which proves that the joy and beauty of jazz can bring us all closer together. Read more
