Blue Engine Records announces release of Wynton Marsalis's Fourth Symphony The Jungle

Recording of Wynton Marsalis’s Fourth Symphony Featuring The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Buc

The Jungle digital release now available on all streaming platforms

The JLCO performs The Jungle with guest orchestras in select European cities June 7-July 9

 

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For immediate release – Today, Blue Engine Records releases The Jungle, the fourth symphony by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, on all major streaming platforms.

Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis alongside the internationally recognized Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO) conducted by Nicholas Buc, The Jungle was recorded live in Hamer Hall in Melbourne, Australia in 2019.

The Jungle will be part of the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis’s repertoire throughout the world renowned big band’s 2023 European Tour (June 7-July 9). This international tour includes 23 shows, 16 cities and 8 countries. For The Jungle performances, please see the schedule below. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: 2023.jazz.org/tour

“New York City is the most fluid, pressure-packed, and cosmopolitan metropolis the modern world has ever seen,” says Wynton Marsalis. No wonder, then, that the city inspired the composer’s fourth symphony, The Jungle. Captured live in 2019, Marsalis’s masterwork highlights the paradoxes that define New York City, where wealth and poverty, grit and romance, and unlimited growth and stagnation all coexist. But it’s also a meditation on what being human means today—a widescale attempt to understand the maelstrom of modern life and remind us what brings us together.

The JLCO with Wynton Marsalis will reunite with MSO for the first time since 2019 for performances of Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise in Australia on August 25-26 2023 in Hamer Hall.

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The Jungle Track Listing

1. Movement I: The Big Scream
2. Movement II: The Big Show
3. Movement III: Lost in Sight (Post Pastoral)
4. Movement IV: La Esquina
5. Movement V: Us
6. Movement VI: Struggle in the Digital Market
7. Bonus track: Curtain Call (Knozz-Moe-King/C Jam Blues)

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The Jungle Album Personnel

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS:

REEDS 
Sherman Irby – alto saxophone
Ted Nash – alto saxophone
Victor Goines – tenor saxophone
Camille Thurman – tenor saxophone
Paul Nedzela – baritone saxophone

TRUMPETS 
Ryan Kisor
Kenny Rampton
Marcus Printup
Wynton Marsalis

TROMBONES 
Vincent Gardner
Chris Crenshaw
Sam Chess* 

RHYTHM SECTION 
Dan Nimmer – piano
Carlos Henriquez – bass
Jason Marsalis – drums 

*Tour replacement for Elliot Mason 

MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 
Conducted by Nicholas Buc

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2023 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra European Tour

*indicates JLCO with Wynton Marsalis performance of The Jungle

June 7 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg –  Philharmonie Luxembourg | Link
*June 9 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg –  Philharmonie Luxembourg; Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra; Cristian Macelaru, conductor | Link
June 10 | Paris, France – Philharmonie de Paris | Link
*June 13 | Paris, France – Philharmonie de Paris; Orchestre de Paris; James Gaffigan, conductor | Link
*June 14 | Paris, France – Philharmonie de Paris; Orchestre de Paris; James Gaffigan, conductor | Link
June 15  | Chalon-sur-Saône, France – Espace des Arts | Link
June 16 | Roubaix, France  – Le Colisée Roubaix | Link
June 18  | Dresden, Germany – Junge Garde | Link
June 19  | Munich, Germany – Gasteig HP8 | Link
June 20 | Vienna, Austria – Wiener Konzerthaus | Link
*June 23 | Timi?oara, Romania  – Sala Capitol; Filarmonica Banatul Timi?oara; Cristian Macelaru, conductor | Link
June 24  | Timi?oara, Romania  – Sala Capitol | Link
June 25 | Bucharest, Romania  – Romanian Athenaeum (JLCO only) | Link
June 26 | Bucharest, Romania  – Romanian Athenaeum (JLCO only) | Link
June 29  | Katowice, Poland – Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall | Link
June 30 | Wroclaw, Poland – National Forum of Music | Link
July 2 | Szczecin, Poland –  Teatr Letni | Link
July 3 | Hamburg, Germany – Elbphilharmonie | Link
July 4 | Neuhardenburg, Germany  – Schloss Neuhardenburg | Link
July 7 | Rotterdam, Netherlands  – Rotterdam Ahoy | Link
July 9 | London England  – Barbican Centre | Link

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About Blue Engine Records

Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s platform that makes its vast archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere, launched on June 30, 2015. Blue Engine Records releases new studio and live recordings as well as archival recordings from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s performance history that date back to 1987 and are part of the R. Theodore Ammon Archives and Music Library. Since the institution’s founding in 1987, each year’s programming is conceived and developed by Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis with a vision toward building a comprehensive library of iconic and wide-ranging compositions that, taken together, make up a canon of music. These archives include accurate, complete charts for the compositions – both old and new – performed each season. Coupled with consistently well-executed and recorded music performed by Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, this archive has grown to include thousands of songs from hundreds of concert dates. The launch of Blue Engine is aligned with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s efforts to cultivate existing jazz fans worldwide and turn new audiences onto jazz. For more information on Blue Engine Records, visit blueenginerecords.org.

Leadership support for Blue Engine Records is provided in part by the Arnhold Family and Jay Pritzker Foundation.

Generous support is provided by Helen and Robert Appel, Diana and Joseph DiMenna, Leonard and Louise Riggio, and Lisa Schiff.

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