Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Duke Ellington wrote music that still refuses to sit still. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — led by trumpet phenom Wynton Marsalis — returns to Madison with a program built around Ellington’s boundary-breaking sound: African rhythms at the root, then jazz, blues, spirituals and gospel branching out from there. The music may be vintage, but it's no museum piece, particularly when played by a band that can swing hard.