NEW YORK - "Welcome to Frederick P. Rose Hall," says a voice with no small degree of reverence as the lights fade at Jazz at Lincoln Center. "You are now in the House of Swing." That's a name that Wynton Marsalis was seemingly born to appropriate. In fact, between tunes at a two-hour retrospective performance last weekend, commemorating the centennial of big-band legend Stan Kenton, Marsalis told the audience that one of the evening's featured works, Gerry Mulligan's Swing House, inspired the less-formal name of the largest of Jazz at Lincoln Center's three performance venues. "This is what we are going to call our concert hall," Marsalis recalled telling Mulligan when the great baritone...
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