The world’s premier big band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis consists of 15 permanent members performing live in New York City and around the world. Their mission is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for Jazz through performance, education and advocacy.
Wynton Marsalis serves as managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has solidified himself as an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader and advocate of American culture. Over the past four and half decades, Marsalis has rekindled and animated widespread international interest in jazz through performances, educational activities, books, curricula and relentless advocacy on public platforms. Today, Marsalis continues the renaissance that he sparked in the early 1980s, attracting new generations of young talent to jazz and illuminating the mythic meanings of jazz fundamentals.