The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is acknowledged as one of the top big bands in the world. Its leader is nine-time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning trumpeter / composer Wynton Marsalis, who for much of his 30-plus-year career has been both hailed as the public face of traditional jazz and criticized for what is perceived as a strict, often non-inclusive definition of the genre. Jazz at Lincoln Center started as three "Classical Jazz" concerts in 1987 and has grown into a $43 million operation that produces more than 100 concerts, offers a...
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