Lincoln Center to Honor Marsalis

Jazz at Lincoln Center has announced that this year's fall gala, set for Nov. 14 at Rose Hall, will honor its artistic director, Wynton Marsalis, on the 25th anniversary of his arrival on the national music scene. Marsalis was a teenage trumpet prodigy when he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1980 and, later that year, signed with Columbia Records. He was a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center in 1991. Among the artists scheduled to perform at the gala are the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Kronos Quartet and, of course, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

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