This is an on-demand video (no live stream) and will be available to view through Feb. 11. Register by Feb. 4 at 10 a.m. Pacific for access
SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Jazz for Young People with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
- Who is Dave Brubeck?
- Free virtual learning opportunity (Recommended for grades 3-8.)
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- Celebrate the legacy of legendary pianist and composer Dave Brubeck in this learning opportunity designed for families with school-age children.
- This is an on-demand video (no live stream) and will be available to view through Feb. 11/ Register by Feb. 4 at 10 a.m. Pacific for access
- FREE event (registration required)
- Tickets/Info: (805) 893-3535, www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
“Marsalis uses serious scholarship, as well as a loving, commanding tone, to engage the kids and make them shout, whisper, sing and show their learning.”
Noozhawk
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Jazz for Young People: Who is Dave Brubeck? This is an on-demand video (no live stream) and will be available to view from Feb 4 through Feb 11. Register by Feb 4 at 10 AM for access. Let Jazz at Lincoln Center and Wynton Marsalis introduce your students to the infectious energy of swing. In this learning opportunity designed for families with school age children, celebrate the legacy of legendary pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, who is credited with bringing jazz to the mainstream in the 1950s and ’60s. Recommended for grades 3-8.
ABOUT
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) comprises 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director, this remarkably versatile orchestra performs a vast repertoire ranging from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works to rare historic compositions and masterworks by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus and many others. The JLCO has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, performing and leading educational events in New York, across the United States and around the globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, ballet troupes, local students and an ever-expanding roster of guest artists, the JLCO has toured over 300 cities across six continents. Guest conductors have included Benny Carter, John Lewis, Jimmy Heath, Chico O’Farrill, Ray Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, Jon Faddis, Robert Sadin, David Berger, Gerald Wilson and Loren Schoenberg. The JLCO has been voted best Big Band in the annual DownBeat Readers’ Poll from 2013–2016.
In 2015, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the launch of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its archive of recorded concerts available to jazz audiences everywhere. The first release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, was recorded on a historic 2010 trip to Havana by the JLCO and was released in October 2015. Big Band Holidays was released in December 2015, The Abyssinian Mass came out in March 2016, The Music of John Lewis was released in March 2017 and the JLCO’s Handful of Keys came out in September 2017. Blue Engine’s United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas features the Wynton Marsalis Septet and an array of special guests, with all proceeds going toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education initiatives. Recent album releases include 2018’s Una Noché con Ruben Blades, 2019’s Betty Carter’s The Music Never Stops, 2019’s Bolden (Official Soundtrack), composed and performed by Wynton Marsalis. Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony, performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Robertson was released in July 2019. To date, 14 other recordings have been released and internationally distributed: Vitoria Suite, Portrait in Seven Shades; Congo Square, Don’t Be Afraid… The Music of Charles Mingus, A Love Supreme, All Rise, Big Train, Sweet Release & Ghost Story, Live in Swing City, Jump Start and Jazz, Blood on the Fields, They Came to Swing, The Fire of the Fundamentals andPortraits by Ellington.
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Arts & Lectures annually presents more than a hundred events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Jazz for Young People with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Part of the Arts Adventures education program and presented in conjunction with the Race to Justice series.
Tickets are FREE (registration required).
To register, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
Lead Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune
Education Sponsors: William H. Kearns Foundation, Sara Miller McCune, SAGE Publishing, Audrey & Timothy O. Fisher, Connie Frank & Evan Thompson, Dorothy Largay & Wayne Rosing, UCSB Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, UCSB Students.