Performance

Compositions of Moacir Santos

1 upcoming performance in New York

At Jazz at Lincoln Center, *Compositions of Moacir Santos* frames the Brazilian composer’s writing as a body of work shaped by Afro-Brazilian rhythm, big-band harmony, and the discipline of film and concert arranging. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, performs alongside Santos and bandolim virtuoso Hamilton de Holanda, keeping the emphasis on orchestration as much as improvisation. In New York, where Latin and jazz histories often run in parallel, this program reads as a corrective, placing Santos in the city’s canon rather than at its margins. The music’s quick shifts in color make the architecture audible.