In the Mood for Festivals at Jazz at Lincoln Center

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By BEN RATLIFF
Published: March 7, 2007

A theme of romance threads through the 2007-8 season for Jazz at Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis, its artistic director, said in an interview yesterday.

Another theme, though unstated, might be consolidation. The schedule for the season, from October to May, promises more of what has worked before: festival programming by coordinating the booking of Rose Hall’s three performance spaces; a concert by the audience favorites Dave Brubeck and Ramsey Lewis; the return of the ever-popular Duke Ellington to the repertory rotation; more concerts of Afro-Cuban, Spanish, and Brazilian jazz hybrids; and a few landmark concerts stemming from the gospel tradition, which seem likely to generate audience interest. (...)

Also in April, Wynton Marsalis and the Spanish pianist Chano Dominguez will reprise “De Cadiz a New Orleans,” a jazz-flamenco work written by Mr. Dominguez and presented in 2003. Mr. Marsalis said that it deserved a better performance and a better hearing, as well as a live recording.

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tags: flamenco, baile, cante, flamenca, piano flamenco, Chano Dominguez