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CONTEST: Win Tickets to Wynton Marsalis

One night only! The acclaimed jazz musician plays Vancouver this October.

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Don't miss your chance to see the swinging musical extravaganza by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Tuesday, Oct. 10 in Vancouver. Photo by Luigi Beverelli.

Featuring 15 of the world’s finest players, the remarkably versatile Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra has been performing, educating and bringing jazz traditions to the globe from their Lincoln Center home base in New York City — a.k.a. the House of Swing — since 1988.

Under music director Wynton Marsalis, they animate a vast repertoire, from historic compositions by jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and Mary Lou Williams, to commissioned works from current and former Lincoln Center Orchestra members like Marsalis, Ted Nash, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Chris Crenshaw and Carlos Henriquez.

Marsalis has a longstanding history with Coastal Jazz, having played one of the first Vancouver International Jazz Festivals back in 1986, the same year Miles Davis and Tito Puente performed. The first jazz musician to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, the iconic trumpeter, composer and music director is hitting Vancouver for one night only this October at the Orpheum Theatre. Tickets are on sale now.

Born into the famed New Orleans musical family, Marsalis was playing in the Fairview Baptist Church Band at 8 and the New Orleans Philharmonic by 12. He moved to New York in ‘79, fresh out of high school, and quickly traded his plans to attend the esteemed Juilliard music school for a spot in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers.

At 19, Wynton hit the road with his own band and has been touring the world ever since. He eventually did find his way back to Juilliard — as the prestigious school’s founding director of jazz studies. Wynton Marsalis sees jazz as a way of life, a model of democratic action, and “a prism through which American culture can be understood.”

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Ranked as British Columbia’s largest not-for-profit music presenter, Coastal Jazz produces the annual Vancouver International Jazz Festival, year-round concerts and has a long-standing commitment to fostering music education. [Tyee]

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