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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces Winners of 27th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival 2022
Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation and more than 35 other individual and section awards in the prestigious 27th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and the hallmark program for the largest jazz education network in the world. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2022 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship Winners
In an awards ceremony tonight, April 20, 2022 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis announced the top three university and college jazz band finalists and section awards in the second annual Jack Rudin Jazz Championship. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces 2022 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship
Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is proud to announce the second annual Jack Rudin Jazz Championship, a two-day invitational competition featuring ensembles from ten of the most well-regarded university jazz programs in the country. Keep reading »
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Announcing Top 15 High School Jazz Bands Competing at 2022 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival
Returning to an in-person format for the first time since 2019, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced today the 27th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, the hallmark program for the largest jazz education network in the world. Keep reading »
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Students reflect on Marsalis visit: ‘He really touched my soul’
Adedayo Perkovich ’25 felt a little intimidated when she saw that Wynton Marsalis’ chair had been placed right next to hers on stage during their Monday rehearsal. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis visits Cornell University campus for Nov. 6 concert
A.D. White Professor-at-Large Wynton Marsalis will visit campus the week of Nov. 1, offering a concert with the Barbara and Richard T. Silver ’50, M.D. ’53 Cornell Wind Symphony, open to the public, and a talk open to members of the Cornell community. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center awards the Nation’s Outstanding High School Jazz Soloists at 2021 Essentially Ellington virtual festival
Tonight, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Virtual Festival, Wynton Marsalis announced the Outstanding Soloists and Sections of the 26th annual event. Keep reading »
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More Than 200 Top High School Jazz Students in The U.S. To Participate in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Essentially Ellington Virtual Festival
Beginning today through June 5, 2021, more than two hundred of the top high school students from coast to coast will participate in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Virtual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival. These students comprise the 15 finalist bands that represent thousands of young people throughout the world that study, rehearse, and perform music from the Essentially Ellington library. Keep reading »
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15 U.S. high school big bands selected for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s virtual Essentially Ellington festival 2021, nation’s premier jazz education event
Faced with enormous challenges due to concerns around COVID-19, band directors and high school student jazz musicians around the country have applied innovative and creative approaches to perform with and learn from each other Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis On The Future Of New York City
Well, there’s definitely many things we could do better. And in any way we look along the system, we can find a way to reform it and make it better. I find a lot of times when we use a word like better, the question is always what are the proportions of things? What do we really want to see? Keep reading »
