Flipped His Lid - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with WYNTON MARSALIS (from THE FIFTIES: A PRISM)

Flipped His Lid From CHRISTOPHER CRENSHAW’S THE FIFTIES: A PRISM Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Rose Theater Feb. 17, 2017 Listen now: “All jazz is modern,” says Wynton Marsalis—and we owe the 1950s for that. The momentous decade became the crucible in which modern jazz was formed, as styles like modal, hard bop, third stream, and more melted together and artists like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Ornette Coleman reached the height of their powers. Now, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Chris Crenshaw has taken inspiration from the era to create The Fifties: A Prism, the newest Blue Engine album. “When I was presented with the idea of coming up with a suite dealing with the 1950s, I immediately realized this was going to cover all the genres of jazz, from bebop to freedom music,” Crenshaw says. Recorded live at The House of Swing by the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis in February 2017, The Fifties does exactly that, refracting all the energy from a creatively s