Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Brings United in Swing Tour to Japan in October 2002.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 Sponsored by Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , two-week tour features 13 concerts in 7 cities, as well as educational events. LCJO LCJO Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra collaborates with New Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo. In October 2002, the LINCOLN CENTER Lincoln Center New York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater JAZZ ORCHESTRA (LCJO) WITH WYNTON MARSALIS, the world-renowned resident orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent company of the Lincoln Center performing arts organization, whose performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly (J@LC), makes a triumphant return to Japan with a two-week residency entitled United in Swing. Sponsored by Merrill Lynch, the tour will feature 13 concerts in 7 cities: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Hamamatsu, Morioka, Utsunomiya, and Hiroshima. In addition, members of the LCJO will lead educational programs in selected cities. This is the LCJO's longest tour in Japan to date; it has performed in Japan on three previous occasions: a concert in Tokyo in February 1998, a weeklong residency at the Yokohama Cultural Center in July 1998, and concerts in Osaka and Tokyo in March 2000. Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, said, "Everywhere the LCJO goes across the globe, we hear the same response: 'when are you coming back?' The Japanese in particular love the sound of swing, so we are very excited to return to their country with this extended series of concerts. We'd especially like to thank Merrill Lynch for their support of our mission to reach as many people as possible worldwide with this music - this tour would not have happened without Merrill Lynch's partnership." During the residency, the LCJO will perform several different programs, including concerts devoted to the songbooks of Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, as well as classics from the Swing Era. In addition, the LCJO will collaborate in Tokyo with the New Japan Philharmonic, featuring orchestral arrangements of Ellington's music by Mr. Marsalis. "Merrill Lynch is proud to sponsor the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as they take their signature brand of jazz to Japan," said David Komansky, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Stan O'Neal, President and COO of Merrill Lynch. "We are also delighted to partner with Wynton Marsalis and his team of exceptional musicians as they seek to further jazz appreciation and education around the world." The United in Swing 2001-02 Tour has been the most extensive tour by the LCJO to date, reaching over 50 cities in the U.S. and abroad. Since 1992, the LCJO has completed more than 20 tours, which have reached more than 250 cities in 30 countries on 5 continents. The LCJO United in Swing Japan Tour personnel is Music Director & Trumpet: WYNTON MARSALIS; Trumpets: SENECA BLACK, RYAN KISOR, MARCUS PRINTUP; Trombones: RON WESTRAY, ANDRE HAYWARD, VINCENT VINCENT Vital Information Necessary Centralized (movie, The Black Hole) GARDNER; Reeds: WESS WESS Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance WESS Weapons Effect Signature Simulator WESS WWMCCS Environmental Support System WESS Weapons Engagement Scoring System WESS Weapons Engagement Simulator System "WARMDADDY" ANDERSON, WALTER BLANDING, JR., VICTOR GOINES, TED NASH, JOE TEMPERLEY; Piano: RICHARD JOHNSON; Bass: CARLOS HENRIQUEZ and Drums: HERLIN RILEY. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO), composed of many of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center (J@LC) resident orchestra for over 10 years. J@LC features the versatile LCJO in nearly all aspects of its programming: the LCJO performs and leads educational events in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , across the U.S., and around the globe; in concert halls, dance venues, jazz clubs, public parks, river boats, and churches; and with symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, students, and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists. Under the leadership of Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the LCJO performs a vast repertory spanning the history of jazz, from masterpieces by composers such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, and Charles Mingus, to newly commissioned works by Benny Carter, Joe Henderson, Jimmy Heath, Chico O'Farrill, members of the LCJO, and others. The LCJO currently spends over half of the year on tour. Over the last few years, the LCJO has performed collaborations with many of the world's leading symphony orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the United States, organized during 1842. Based in New York City, the Philharmonic performs most of its concerts at Avery Fisher Hall and has long been considered one of the best orchestras in the world. , the Russian National Orchestra The Russian National Orchestra has been in demand throughout the music world ever since its 1990 Moscow premiere. Of the orchestra's 1996 debut at the BBC Proms in London, the Evening Standard wrote, "They played with such captivating beauty that the audience gave an involuntary , the Berlin Philharmonie, the Czech Philharmonic, the Boston, Chicago, and London Symphony Orchestras, and others. The members of the LCJO frequently conduct educational events produced by J@LC, including lectures, master classes, and Jazz for Young People(SM) concerts while on tour, and serve as mentors in the annual Essentially Ellington High School Ellington High School is a high school located in Ellington, Connecticut. The school teams are known as the Knights. Their colors are purple and gold. Ellington is a part of Ellington Public Schools. Jazz Band Competition & Festival. In 1999, the LCJO was designated a Cultural Ambassador of the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, under the White House Millennium Council The White House Millennium Council was an American organization established in 1998 by President Bill Clinton to commemorate the millennium.[1] The council's theme was "Honor the Past -- Imagine the Future. Program. In March 2001, Mr. Marsalis was designated a United Nations Messenger of Peace by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The LCJO has appeared on television broadcasts across North and South America, Europe, Asia (including China), and Australia, including "The Tonight Show" and six "Live From Lincoln Center Live from Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with Thirteen/WNET in New York City. " broadcasts. The LCJO also recorded the music for the Jazz for Young People Curriculum, produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and released in February 2002. The LCJO's most recent recording is All Rise (2002) on Sony Classical, which also features special guest ensembles the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. , the Morgan State University Morgan State University, formerly Centenary Biblical Institute (1867-1890), Morgan College (1890-1938) Morgan State College (1938 -1975), is located in residential Baltimore, Maryland. Choir, the Paul Smith Singers and the Northridge Singers of California State University Enrollment  . The following LCJO CDs are also
available on Columbia Jazz: Live in Swing City (1999), Big Train (1999),
Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999), Jump Start and Jazz (1997),
Blood on the Fields Blood on the Fields is a three and half hour jazz "oratorio," although he did not use this term, by Wynton Marsalis. It was commissioned by Lincoln Center and concerns a couple moving from slavery to freedom.[1]It received the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Music. (1997), They Came to Swing (1994), The Fire of the Fundamentals (1993), and Portraits by Ellington (1992). Jazz at Lincoln Center is the world's largest not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz 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 education, performance and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, a weekly national radio program, television broadcasts, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. , children's concerts, lectures, film programs, and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis and President & CEO Hughlyn F. Fierce, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce more than 450 events during its 2002-03 season. Currently, Jazz at Lincoln Center is building its new home - Frederick P. Rose Hall Frederick P. Rose Hall is a concert hall associated with Jazz at Lincoln Center, located in the Time Warner Building in New York City. It was the first concert hall designed specifically for jazz music. - the first education, performance, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz, slated to open in fall 2004. For more information, please visit www.jazzatlincolncenter.org.
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
United in Swing Japan Tour
October 2002
Sponsored by Merrill Lynch
(As of 8/28/02 - subject to change)
DATE VENUE CITY
10/7/02 Hitomi Memorial Hall/ Tokyo, Japan
Showa Women's College
(private event)
10/8/02 Suntory Hall Tokyo, Japan
10/9/02 Yamamoto Minato Miraikan Yokohama, Japan
10/10/02 Sumida Triphony Hall Tokyo, Japan
(Collaboration with the
New Japan Philharmonic)
10/11/02 Symphony Hall Osaka, Japan
10/13/02 AX Tokyo, Japan(a)
(private event)
10/14/02 Act City Hamamatsu Hamamatsu, Japan
10/15/02 Toin Memorial Hall Yokohama, Japan
(private event)
10/16/02 Bunkamura Orchard Hall Tokyo, Japan
10/17/02 Bunkamura Orchard Hall Tokyo, Japan
(private event)
10/18/02 Morioka Shinminbunka Hall Morioka, Japan
10/19/02 Utsunomiya-shi Bunka Kaikan Utsunomiya, Japan
10/20/02 Hatsukaichi Shinminbunka Hall Hiroshima, Japan
(a) : Additional educational activities, such as lectures, workshops, master classes, etc. Editor's Note: Downloadable LCJO photos at: www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/presenters/images/index.html |
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