Columbus Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director Byron Stripling will lead a top-flight rhythm section and singers, as well as a conversation with Michelle Alexander, the award-winning New York Times opinion writer and author of the best-selling “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.”
Music has always served as the secret weapon of change. Join us for a special event — a joyous, uplifting hour of inspirational song featuring Columbus’ finest musicians and crucial conversations on social justice and unity.
A collaboration between Jazz Arts Group and the Columbus Urban League. Produced by Vital Companies.
Under Music Director Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) performs a vast repertoire, from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. Tonight’s performance will leave audiences inspired and uplifted with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music.
NEA Jazz Master and multiple Grammy Award-winning trumpeter/composer Wynton Marsalis speaks with Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center Principal and Director, Dr. Milton Ruffin, and students from the school.
