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Jazztodon artist of the week: the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra! In 1988, the orchestra was formed as an outgrowth of its concert series, Classical Jazz, with David Berger conducting. When Wynton Marsalis became artistic director in 1991, he emphasized the history of jazz, particularly Duke Ellington. The first album was "Portraits by Ellington" (1992), and seven years later the Ellington centennial was honored with the album "Live in Swing City: Swingin' with the Duke" (1999).

Under the leadership of Marsalis, the band performs at its home in Lincoln Center, tours throughout the U.S. and abroad, visits schools, appears on television, and performs with symphony orchestras. The orchestra backed Wynton Marsalis on his album "Blood on the Fields," which won the Pulitzer Prize.[1][2][3]

Since 2015, the orchestra's albums have been issued on its own label, Blue Engine Records.

"The young trumpeter was highly opinionated and highly quotable, and from the beginning the music press, sniffing a possible feud, gave Marsalis’s venting about Miles—he even critiqued the outlandish outfits Miles had taken to wearing onstage, calling them “dresses”—plenty of column inches. The first time the two met, Miles said, 'So here’s the police.'"

The Icon and the Upstart — On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis: lithub.com/the-icon-and-the-up

All artists should understand this:

"Do you remember the story that Miles told? About playing the blues one night? A woman was standing there, and he was noticing her jewelry. He was playing his heart from within. Then he decides he’d show the technical side of his ability. As soon as he started playing everything that he could write out, that students could read, going in to the cache of what he’d obtained academically, the woman walked away."

- #AliceColtrane talking to #WyntonMarsalis #BAM