Journey Through Jazz: Overtures to Africa The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Jazz Ensemble in New York

About Journey Through Jazz: Overtures to Africa The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

Journey Through Jazz: Overtures to Africa is a Jazz at Lincoln Center presentation performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York City. The orchestra draws on the institution’s repertory-driven approach, shaped by a lineage that runs through figures such as Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach. In this program, the ensemble traces jazz’s dialogues with African musical ideas through arranged overtures and band writing. The playing tends to favor structure and clarity over spectacle.