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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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‘Our music was born in hard times’: How Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra keeps playing
When the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra played its last concert in front of an audience in late February 2020, its members thought they had a bright and busy future ahead of them. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2021 Gala Concert: Innovation + Soul
Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, host Dee Dee Bridgewater, and special appearances by President Bill Clinton, Pedrito Martinez, Lil Buck, Veronica Swift, Michael Rodriguez, Sean Mason Keep reading »
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“Voices of Freedom” virtual concert celebrating iconic women in jazz premieres On March 26, 2021
Jazz at Lincoln Center honors Women’s History Month with a new virtual concert. Voices of Freedom: Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone will find the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces 2021 Spring Virtual Concert Season
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and guests honor luminaries Betty Carter, Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone; premiere collaboration with acclaimed activist Bryan Stevenson and two commissions by emerging composers; and explore _A Love Supreme_ by John Coltrane Keep reading »
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Explore the life, inspirations and iconic recordings of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis
Most fans know Wynton Marsalis as the most recognizable jazz trumpeter of his generation. He’s also a celebrated composer, educator, and music director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Keep reading »
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Jazz At Lincoln Center Salutes World’s Top High School Big Bands with Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Virtual Festival 2020
23 high school big bands from around the world, largest group in festival’s history, celebrate 25 years of Essentially Ellington, nation’s premier jazz education event Keep reading »
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Jazz competition for high school students goes virtual
The coronavirus pandemic has altered the annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, but it will still go on, giving students the chance to show their talents virtually. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala 2020: Worldwide Concert for our Culture
Like all of the public-facing arts, we are challenged to serve our community beyond the reach of this pandemic and its wake of cancelled performances, shutdown of gathering places, and restrictions on travel. In responding to this crisis and the new world we now find ourselves inhabiting, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual Spring Gala on April 15th will now be freely broadcast digitally to audiences around the world Keep reading »