ROBERT CRAY and SHEMEKIA COPELAND

Celebrate Black History Month with music! Jazz Roots brings together two magnificent artists who pay tribute to the roots of blues and soul, but take the music to an inspired new level.

Called "the torchbearer for gritty, Southern-style blues" by The New York Times, Robert Cray—Grammy winner, vocalist and guitar hero—has continually topped the Billboard Charts with his high energy recordings.

Shemekia Copeland, the daughter of the late great Texas blues guitar hero Johnny Copeland, began her career on the blues circuit at the age of 16... She is now recognized as the new lady of the blues. "She was born to belt" says The New York Times, "with a big, bright voice" that rocks the house wherever she performs!

with WYNTON MARSALIS

Don’t miss the greatest jazz orchestra working today. This remarkably versatile group, featuring 15 outstanding jazz soloists and ensemble players, performs in New York, across the U.S. and around the globe. Their extensive repertoire includes original compositions as well as the masterworks of Ellington, Mingus, Coltrane, and other great jazz composers.

With more than 30 recordings and nine Grammy Awards, JLCO Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis is a giant in the jazz world, a nine-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, composer, music educator, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, and, along with his father and brothers, a member of America’s first family of jazz.

Funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Department of Cultural Affairs.

Starring SERGIO MENDES
With very special guest Eliane Elias

International music legend Sergio Mendes brings his sizzling samba sound to Jazz Roots, filling the Knight Concert Hall with his signature mix of bossa nova and percussion accents along with the distinctive pop instrumentation that have defined Brazilian music around the world.