This just in, via Pollstar: Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (pictured) have been booked to play the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis on Saturday, February 9, 2008.Marsalis, the Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize winning trumpeter and composer, serves as the director of the 15-member Orchestra, which was founded in 1988 and is the “house band” for the Jazz at Lincoln Center program based at the NYC concert venue. The band includes a number of young, up-and-coming players, as well as veterans like ex-Ellingtonian Joe Temperly and frequent Marsalis collaborator Victor Goines. You can see video interviews with some of the Orchestra’s members here, and you can see the whole band performing an arrangement of Ornette Coleman’s composition “Free” in the embedded video window below.
As with all shows listed on Pollstar, this concert should not be considered confirmed until officially announced by the venue. There’s nothing about the concert yet on the Sheldon’s Web site, but the St. Louis date is listed as part of a 20-city tour for the JaLCO that begins in mid-January, and is bracketed by dates in Columbia, MO and Kansas City, so all in all, I'd say it seems quite likely to happen. Watch this space for confirmation, further information about tickets, and so on.
(Edited after posting to fix the headline.)
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