"Celebrating Joe Temperley: From Duke to the JLCO"

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Honors Saxophonist Joe Temperley

Of the warm tones of the great jazz musician Joe Temperley's sonorous saxophone, legendary trumpeter Wynton Marsalis once said, "There is no greater sound on earth." Now, in Temperley's 85th year of life, Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates his illustrious career as his band mates play new arrangements of his favorite Duke Ellington tunes as well his own original music. The heart and soul of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for more than 25 years, Temperley has performed with the likes of Ellington, Humphrey Lyttelton, Woody Herman and many others, as well as in the Broadway musical "Sophisticated Ladies". Marsalis himself, the Lincoln Center's artistic director of jazz, will present a three-movement concerto written as a dedication to Temperley, tipping the scales of "Celebrating Joe Temperley: From Duke to the JLCO" toward something truly special.