Ahead of their Australian tour (17 August to 5 September), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis release their latest album The Jungle, recorded in 2019 with the MSO.

Blue Engines Records announces release of Wynton Marsalis’s Fourth Symphony THE JUNGLE
Featuring The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conducted By Nicholas Buc

New York, NY – On Friday May 26, 2023, Blue Engine Records released 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.

“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 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). The international tour includes 23 shows, 16 cities and 8 countries. For more details, visit: 2023.jazz.org/tour

The JLCO with Wynton Marsalis will reunite with the MSO for the first time since 2019 for performances of Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise at Hamer Hall on 25 & 26 August. JLCO will also tour to Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane. Australian tour dates and details here.

The Jungle digital release now available on all streaming platforms.

THE JUNGLE TRACKLISTING:
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)

THE JUNGLE ALBUM PERSONNEL:

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS:
REEDS: Sherman Irby & Ted Nash – alto saxophone, Victor Goines & 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

AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES:

17 & 18 August - JLCO with Wynton Marsalis, Canberra Grammar School

20 August – A Journey through Jazz
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis – Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

25 August & 26 August – All Rise
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis and the MSO – Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne

30 August – Jazz for Young People
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis – Sydney Opera House

31 August & 1 September - All Rise
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis and the SSO – Sydney Opera House

2 & 3 September
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis – Sydney Opera House

4 September – All Jazz is Modern
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane

5 September – Journey Through Jazz
JLCO with Wynton Marsalis – Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane