Duke Jazz Ensemble & Duke Djembe Ensemble: Showcase Concert with Wycliffe Gordon, trombone

Showcase concert featuring the Duke Jazz Ensemble, directed by John Brown, and the Duke Djembe and Afro-Cuban Ensembles, directed by Bradley Simmons. The guest artist is trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. Winner of the 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll for trombone and Jazz Journalists Association's 2012 Trombonist of the Year, Wycliffe Gordon is a former member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet. In 2007, he was presented with the ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award for his "innovative musical activity as a composer, instrumentalist, performer, and educator in the field of Jazz." His compositions have been performed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon and Friends, the Brass Band of Battle Creek and numerous other ensembles in the U.S. and abroad. He has worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Tommy Flanagan, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Eric Reed, Randy Sandke and Branford Marsalis, and many top players from the swing and traditional jazz world.