Big Band Holidays has the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis playing big band holiday favorites. Buy tickets early because these concerts sell out every year.
The concert swings with holiday classics like Count Basie’s “Jingle Bells,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and Billie Holiday’s “I’ve Got my Love to Keep me Warm.” Imagine the entire Time Warner Center swinging to a holiday beat like two holiday dancers once upon a time at the Savoy Ballroom up in Harlem.
Santa is no dummy. He is sure to stop first at the happiest house, which on these days is Jazz at Lincoln Center swinging to Big Band Holidays.
Big Band Holidays 2022
Big Band Holidays with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and guest singer Samara Joy is a family concert of big band Jazz holiday favorites at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, Wednesday-Sunday, December 14-18, 2022. From $41. jazz.org 🇺🇸
Victor Goins music directs.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2022
This is an all-star orchestra.
Trumpets
- Wynton Marsalis
- Marcus Printup
- Kenny Rampton
Saxophones
- Walter Blanding
- Victor Goines
- Sherman Irby
- Ted Nash
- Paul Nedzela, baritone
Trombones
- Chris Crenshaw
- Vincent Gardner
- Elliot Mason
Rhythm
- Carlos Henriquez, bass (Puerto Rican New Yorker)
- Dan Nimmer, piano
2021
Big Band Holidays featuring The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis is at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater, Wed-Sun, Dec 15-19, 2021. From $55. jazz.org
2019
Wednesday-Sunday, December 18-22, 2019 ~ The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis makes the holidays swing at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
$180 tickets at jazz.org
Guest vocalists Alexis Morrast and Denzal Sinclaire add to the cheer. This is an All-Star orchestra. Puerto Rican New Yorker Carlos Henriquez (Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Wynton Marsalis) holds the bass chair.
2018
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Big Band Holidays concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center is Wednesday – Sunday, December 19-23, 2018. From $105
- Wednesday, December 19 at 7pm
- Thursday-Saturday, December 20-22 at 8pm
- Sunday, December 23 at 2pm
Wynton Marsalis will be there and so will Carlos Henriquez, the heir to the legacy of Puerto Rican jazz and salsa legend Tito Puente.
2017
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Big Band Holidays concert is at Jazz at Lincoln Center in is Wednesday – Sunday, December 13 – 17, 2017. This year’s special guest vocalists are Catherine Russell and Kenny Washington.
