From Cuba to the Crescent City New York Performances

At Jazz at Lincoln Center, *From Cuba to the Crescent City* traces a musical corridor between Havana’s Afro-Cuban rhythms and New Orleans’ brass-band and early-jazz traditions. Wynton Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in a large-ensemble program that treats the repertoire as living history, not a museum piece. In New York, where these lineages have long converged on bandstands and in recording studios, the project registers as a reminder of how “American” jazz is also Caribbean. One clear virtue is its emphasis on continuity over novelty.