Big Band Britannia/Vortex Jam | Jazz review

Barbican/Vortex, LondonAt midnight on Saturday, when Wynton Marsalis strolled into the Vortex jazz club in Dalston just like any other punter save for his sharp suit and natty bow tie, a spontaneous show was under way that had already rammed home the point of his Lincoln Center Orchestra's Barbican residency.Lincoln sidemen were in mid-jam with young locals from Tomorrow's Warriors: trumpeter Marcus Printup's flaring sound filling the tiny room, trombonist Chris Crenshaw and London scat-vocalis...

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