Join Southampton Arts Center and Hamptons Jazz Fest, in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center and our Georgian partners from the Silk Road Group, as we present Wynton Marsalis for an evening of jazz and cocktails, celebrating a historic milestone marking 30 years of the U.S. and the country of Georgia relations! Enjoy mingling with musicians and our guests from Georgia at 5:30 p.m. during our special pre-show gala event and hear about the importance of the U.S. - Georgian cultural and humanitarian relationship. Concert will begin at 7 p.m.
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He has created and performed an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.
Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone, a depth of emotion and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques. When you hear Marsalis play, you’re hearing life being played out through music.
Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principles of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues). With his evolved humanity and through his selfless work, Marsalis has elevated the quality of human engagement for individuals, social networks and cultural institutions throughout the world.
This event is made possible by Georgian Telecom Silknet, Tsinandali Foundation and the U.S. Georgia Legacy Foundation, signifying the 30-year anniversary of the US/Georgian diplomatic relations where music is the goodwill ambassador of the critically important and close cultural ties between the two countries.
