Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Stream the full album now at jazz.org/people
Blue Engine Records is proud to announce the release of We the People, the latest album from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Recorded live in 2019, this suite of music emerged from an historic collaboration between Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that united two great American institutions in service of using our shared cultural heritage to lead the way toward a better future.
The project began when the JLCO’s masterful composers were asked to select a single work of art from Crystal Bridges’ incomparable collection as inspiration for a new original work. The resulting songs, stitched together into a suite, present a stunning big band portrait of our nation’s history, scoring works from acclaimed artists such as Romare Bearden, Thomas Cole, Stuart Davis, and Grace Hartigan. Both stirring and elegiac, We the People celebrates America’s unparalleled cultural contributions to the world; and by bringing together Jazz at Lincoln Center and Crystal Bridges, the record shows how the arts can connect disparate communities and unite us all.
Stream the full album now at jazz.org/people
Blue Engine Records is proud to announce the release of We the People, the latest album from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Recorded live in 2019, this suite of music emerged from an historic collaboration between Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art that united two great American institutions in service of using our shared cultural heritage to lead the way toward a better future.
The project began when the JLCO’s masterful composers were asked to select a single work of art from Crystal Bridges’ incomparable collection as inspiration for a new original work. The resulting songs, stitched together into a suite, present a stunning big band portrait of our nation’s history, scoring works from acclaimed artists such as Romare Bearden, Thomas Cole, Stuart Davis, and Grace Hartigan. Both stirring and elegiac, We the People celebrates America’s unparalleled cultural contributions to the world; and by bringing together Jazz at Lincoln Center and Crystal Bridges, the record shows how the arts can connect disparate communities and unite us all.
