Folk, Blues, and Spirituals The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis has always championed the vernacular music of America—what he calls “Root American Musics,” encompassing blues, folk, gospel, country, and spirituals. Equally influential is the American landscape itself: its shining skyscrapers, expansive highways, rural roads, and ever-changing terrains. These are the foundational elements in Marsalis' music. Growing up on a block between the railroad tracks and the Mississippi River, he was immersed in Americana, and traveling the country by c