Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Big Band Holidays—Jazz at Lincoln Center’s joyful annual holiday concert—is back! In our latest video, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist (and this year's Big Band Holidays music director) Christopher Crenshaw talks about how he keeps this annual concert fresh and shares his favorite Big Band Holiday memory: arranging for and performing with the incomparable Aretha Franklin in 2015 (watch Aretha perform here: youtube.com/watch?v=jPxnqlF064Y)

Tickets: jazz.org