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JLCO Hosts: Kenny Garrett & The Music of Mulgrew Miller
JLCO premieres new arrangements of Garrett and Miller’s works Rose Theater, February 21 & 22, 8pm Keep reading »
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The JLCO With Wynton Marsalis Perform In Jazz For Young People® Family Concert: Who Is Dave Brubeck?
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs its first family concert of the year: Jazz For Young People® Family Concert: Who is Dave Brubeck? at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on February 8 at 1pm and 3pm. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located at Broadway at 60th St., New York, New York. Keep reading »
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Music From Pakistan: Featuring Sachal Jazz Ensemble, JLCO with Wynton Marsalis
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will collaborate with the Sachal Jazz Ensemble, marking the Ensemble’s U.S. debut performance. Master musicians from Pakistan, the *Sachal Jazz Ensemble* incorporates ancient instruments, such as sitar, sarod, tabla, and dholak into the sounds and rhythms of iconic jazz repertoire. This Ensemble’s unique rendition of the Dave Brubeck standard “Take Five” went viral on YouTube with more than half a million views to date. This collaboration is JALC’s latest installment in a string of cross-cultural investigations, touching upon Ghana and Spain, among others, through which the organization actualizes its mission to make jazz available globally by interweaving the sounds of jazz with an international array of musical styles. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis Septet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola on December 26-31
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola ends the year on a high note with an unprecedented residency by the legendary Wynton Marsalis Septet from December 26 – 31, including two special performances on New Year’s Eve. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Swings in The Holidays
This holiday season, Jazz at Lincoln Center brings back Big Band Holidays, a favorite seasonal tradition in Rose Theater, and the second annual Ring In The Swing: A New Year’s Eve Dance Party, the organization’s swing dance party and concert, in The Allen Room. Keep reading »
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Ahmad Jamal & Wynton Marsalis Open Jazz At Lincoln Center’s 2013–14 Season
Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly opens the 2013–14 season with Ahmad Jamal & Wynton Marsalis on September 19–21 at 8pm in Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York, New York. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swinging with the Big Bands
Jazz at Lincoln Center concludes a milestone 25th anniversary concert season with Swinging With The Big Bands, special concert events in The Allen Room on June 12 at 7pm and June 13 at 7pm & 9pm. Swinging With The Big Bands celebrates the 1930s, an era when singers like Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ivie Anderson, Dan Grissom, and Dick Powell inflamed hearts around the globe. Keep reading »
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Celebrating Duke Ellington featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Since 1988, when Wynton Marsalis coalesced his septet with Duke Ellington alumni Jimmy Hamilton, Willie Cook, Jimmy Woode, Norris Turney, Britt Woodman, and Joe Temperley (still an active member of the JLCO and performer at this event) to form the first edition of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Ellington’s oeuvre has been fundamental to Marsalis’ mission and conception. Continuing in this vein, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will draw from its deep well of Ellingtonia, rendering the maestro’s essence with a forceful, idiomatic clarity that reflects the JLCO’s abiding immersion in his language. Keep reading »
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Sondheim and Marsalis to Collaborate on Show for City Center
Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis are collaborating on a new show to be staged at the New York City Center next November that will feature jazz interpretations of Mr. Sondheim’s love songs. The show, “A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Story,” marks the first time Mr. Sondheim, one of musical theater’s great lyricists and composers, and Mr. Marsalis, the master jazz trumpeter, have worked together. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2013-14 Season
New York, NY (February 27, 2013) Today Jazz at Lincoln Center announced its 2013-14 Concert and Education Season which boasts a diverse range of artistry and embodies the concept “all jazz is modern” (see attached chronology). Compelling new programs, concerts, and series feature some of today’s finest musicians performing in Rose Theater, The Allen Room and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, which the Wall Street Journal called a “crowning achievement of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s remarkable rise from a three-concert 1987 series dubbed ‘Classical Jazz’ to a full constituent within Lincoln Center. Keep reading »