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The world’s premier big band, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis consists of 15 permanent members performing live in New York City and around the world. Wynton Marsalis serves as Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961 to a musical family, Marsalis was gifted his first trumpet at age 6 by Al Hirt. By 8, he began playing in the famed Fairview Baptist Church Band… Abdias Armenteros began playing saxophone at age eight. The Miami native attended the New World School of the Arts High School, whose jazz band received top honors at JALC’s Essentially Ellington competition in 2016…
