Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis - The Democracy! Suite

Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet performing with Wynton Marsalis

A stylish new orchestral suite composed by Wynton Marsalis!

"Jazz music is the perfect metaphor for democracy," says famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. At a time when America — and indeed, the whole world — finds itself at a crossroads, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer has been inspired to write a poignant and buoyant work, The Democracy! Suite, which proves that the joy and beauty of jazz can bring us all closer together.

That new suite is now a digital album from Marsalis and a septet composed of members of the famed Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Recorded live in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Appel Room during the Covid-19 lockdown, the work is irresistible and irrepressible. Tracks like "Out Amongst the People (For J Bat)" and "Be Present" are an impassioned reflection of turbulent times that find peerless musicians working as a harmonious community, urging us to reflect on the past and reconsider the future.

"The question that confronts us right now as a nation is, ‘Do we want to find a better way?'" Marsalis says. The music of The Democracy! Suite may be instrumental, but it speaks for itself, urging us onto action — to get out of our seats and fight for the world we believe in.

Side A

1. Be Present

2. Sloganize, Patronize, Realize, Revolutionize (Black Lives Matters)

3. Ballot Box Bounce

4. That Dance We Do (That You Love Too)

Side B

1. Deeper Than Dreams

2. Out Amongst the People (for J Bat)

3. It Come 'Round 'Gin

4. That's When All Will See

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