Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis — Untamed Elegance, New York, 2016

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Why this recording

Jazz at Lincoln Center posts the complete Victor Goines suite on its own channel, six movements whose titles nod to the era, from “The Business of America is Business” to “Bold, Naked, and Sensational”. The description lists that night's line-up section by section: Goines himself holds one of the two tenor chairs, the rhythm section is Adam Birnbaum, Carlos Henriquez and Ali Jackson, and saxophonist Jon Irabagon is the guest. The first movement starts at 3:51.

— Simon Janvier, live-sound professional and editor of the catalogue

Recording technical sheet

Rights-holding channelJazz at Lincoln Center
Source statusOfficial — artist’s channel
Uploaded
Exact runtime
ResolutionHD (720p+)
Source qualityProfessional (multi-camera)

Metadata checked on YouTube on 29 September 2026; direction, camera setup and sound documented by the editors.

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Published on September 10, 2026 by Simon Janvier

On 28 October 2016, the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York hosted Untamed Elegance, a filmed live concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The evening was built around a suite composed and arranged by saxophonist Victor Goines, a veteran orchestra member, paying tribute to the Jazz Age — the American Roaring Twenties, marked by prohibition and the genre’s global rise. Each piece explores a facet of the 1920s ethos and the jazz idiom, from big-band swing to more muted colours. A seventeen-piece big band, the JLCO unfolds the arranging craft, chiseled solos and ensemble cohesion that built its worldwide reputation. The capture highlights the richness of the brass and reed sections, along with Wynton Marsalis’s precise direction. A reference full concert for the orchestral-jazz enthusiast, to be seen as a filmed live concert to grasp the vitality of the big-band tradition in the 21st century.

Setlist

  1. The Business of America is Business
  2. The Elephant in the Room
  3. Laboratories of Ideas
  4. The "It" Thing
  5. Drunk as a Skunk
  6. Bold, Naked, and Sensational

Personnel & credits

  • Wynton Marsalis — conductor, trumpet
  • Victor Goines — composition, arrangements, saxophone
  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
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Neither Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis nor Untamed Elegance — Rose Theater, New York appears elsewhere in the catalogue: what follows rests on the ground itself, Jazz from the 2010s.

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