Led by Wynton Marsalis, the most influential jazz musician in the media in the past 25 years, and one of the greatest trumpet players in the history of music, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra "the best big band in the world" according to the Daily Telegraph, turns twenty-five, and celebrates with a tour that, as one would expect, has a stop in one of their homes in Europe, the San Javier Jazz Festival. Aware of the privilege of enjoying excellence in its highest degree, we receive these fifteen great musicians, and the best contemporary jazz trumpeter, with the impatience of seeing some good friends, absent for too long.
Wynton Marsalis: musical director and trumpet
Ryan Kisor, Sean Jones, Marcus Printup: trumpets
Chris Crenshaw, Vincent Gardner; Eliot Mason: trombones
Walter Blanding, Victor Goines, Sherman Irby, Ted Nash, Joe Temperley: saxes
Dan Nimmer: piano
Carlos Henriquez: double bass
Ali Jackson: drums