Jazz at The Lincoln Center Orchestra

• DIGIPACK EDITION

In 2013, when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis set out to honor the legacy of the Modern Jazz Quartet’s maestro, they teamed up with New Orleans’ own Jon Batiste. The bandleader of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and a prodigious pianist in his own right, Batiste joined the JLCO to tackle some of Lewis’s most iconic tunes during a sold-out concert in Rose Theater, the House of Swing.

From the blistering bebop of “Two Bass Hit” to the down-home blues of “2 Degrees East, 3 Degrees West”—from small group configurations to the big band might of the full JLCO—The Music of John Lewis captures the elegance and soulfulness of Lewis’s daring compositions. The record also includes a four-movement suite pulled from the Modern Jazz Quartet’s classic recording, The Comedy.

PERSONNEL:

• REEDS:
• SHERMAN IRBY
• TED NASH
• VICTOR GOINES
• WALTER BLANDING
• JOE TEMPERLEY
• PAUL NEDZELA
• TRUMPETS:
• RYAN KISOR
• KENNY RAMPTON
• TIM HAGANS
• WINTON MARSALIS
• TROMBONES:
• VINCENT GARDNER
• CHRIS CRENSHAW (conductor tracks 6-9)
• ELLIOT MASON
• RHYTHM SECTION:
• JON BATISTE, piano
• CARLOS HENRIQUEZ, bass
• ALI JACKSON, drums

• SPECIAL GUESTS:
• HOWARD JOHNSON, tuba on tracks 6,7,8 & 9
• DOUG WAMBLE, guitar on tracks 1 & 2

Recorded live on January 19, 2013 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York.

TRACKS:

• 01. 2 Degrees East,3 Degrees West)
• 02. Animal Dance
• 03. Django
• 04, Jon Batiste Introduces the Band
• 05. Delaunay’s Dilemma
• 06. La Cantatrice
• 07. Piazza Novana
• 08. Pulcinella
• 09. Spanish Steps
• 10. Wynton Marsalis Discusses Joh Lewis
• 11. Two Bass Hit