Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Yacub Addy and Odadaa. Wynton Marsalis pays homage to his hometown of New Orleans in Congo Square, a ground-breaking suite celebrating Congo Square's unique role in shaping American music.

Legend has it that this market behind the French Quarter was the only public place in America in the 1700s and 1800s where African slaves were allowed to perform their own music. Wynton takes us back to this bedrock of jazz and blues where the earliest African stylings entered American music. From Dixieland through swing and funk, Marsalis reacquaints every strain in the evolution of jazz with its African roots.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed jazz orchestra is joined by Yacub Addy's world class African percussion ensemble Odadaa! in a dynamic 2 hour performance of Congo Square filmed at the Montreal Jazz Festival. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is a crack 16 piece ensemble featuring outstanding soloists including, along with Marsalis, trumpeters Ryan Kisor and Marcus Printus, trombonists Chris Crenshaw and Vincent Gardner, and reed players Victor Goines, Ted Nash and Sherman Irby. Odadaa! features nine musicians performing on drums, flutes, balafons and bells. Whichever group is playing, the performance is filled with the improvising spirit at the root of jazz.

Acclaimed as bandleader, performer and composer, Marsalis has won nine GRAMMY® awards and was recently picked by TIME magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in America.

The Congo Square concert tour has played major venues in the U.S. and received a great deal of national coverage and favorable reviews in each city in which it was performed.