Tonight you will hear the latest additions to their Monk songbook.In addition to new versions penned by renowned members of the JLCO, you will also hear arrangements written exclusively for this event by some of jazz’s most promising young composers, including Joe Block and Matt Wong, who won Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially EllingtonComposition/Arrangement competition when they were in high school.
Monk himself was only 18 years old when he wrote the masterpiece “’Round Midnight,” and this performance is a chance to hear the next generation’s brightest minds reinterpret his music for a band that can play anything
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Performance Schedule:
THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
Music
Thelonious Monk
Director
Wynton Marsalis