News Updates – New York

JALC grand opening: Video from the New Orleans-style second-line parade

Posted on October 28th, 2004 in Video | 3

On October 18, 2004, at 10am, Wynton led a swinging group of musicians down the Broadway, on their way to the new Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Those in the New Orleans-style parade, as well as citizens of Manhattan and tourists belted out “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Office workers clapped from open windows.
Some even started to jitterbug on the street as the musicians paraded from Lincoln Center’s Josie Robertson Plaza to the new Jazz at Lincoln Center marquee located on Broadway at 60th Street.

The Duke and the Count: LCJO with Wynton Marsalis in the Allen Room

Posted on October 25th, 2004 in Concerts

This evening, October 25, 2004, at 7:30pm marks the only opportunity this season to experience the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton in The Allen Room.
Unfolding under the stars are Duke Ellington’s 1943 Black, Brown, & Beige, a three-movement symphony, and the most important and successful longform work in the history of jazz.

News to come soon

Posted on October 20th, 2004 in News | 2

Sorry for our delay in updating the site, but we’re in New York for the JALC’s grand opening concerts.
We are having a great time with Wynton, Isobel and Genevieve listening to great music.
As soon as i return to Italy i will post some great video-clip, photos and news articles about the events !!!

Soaking Up the Spaces at a New Jazz Center

Posted on October 19th, 2004 in Review | 4

Some basic impressions of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new space, which opened last night: It is a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, fairly expensive-feeling experience; it is flexible and alive.

Jazz has so many different connotations for different people. But at least some part of this three-theater complex, taking up the fifth and sixth floors of the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, could ring the bells of recognition of someone who had never been to a jazz performance before and only possessed the received wisdom of photographs and album covers: yes, this seems right; this is jazz. And it contains enough attention to detail to impress those who have spent the better part of their lives hearing it, too.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Opening Gala

Posted on October 18th, 2004 in Review

In a companion broadcast with PBS, NPR presents “One Family of Jazz” — the opening-night gala concerts at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, a new state-of-the art home for jazz in the Time Warner building on New York’s Columbus Circle.   Keep reading »

The Making of a Jazz Statesman

Posted on October 18th, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews

As Jazz at Lincoln Center prepares for the first concert tonight at its new digs—three theaters in the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle—Wynton Marsalis, its trumpet-playing star and artistic director, is behaving increasingly statesmanlike.   Keep reading »

Wynton Marsalis and the temple of jazz

Posted on October 17th, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews

Wynton Marsalis is scheduled to do an interview about Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s $128 million new permanent home and performance space. But the interview can’t get started because Marsalis, who has been JLC’s artistic director since its founding in 1991, can’t stop staring at the temporary stage in the Allen Room, one of Rose Hall’s three sumptuous theaters.   Keep reading »

Ed Bradely interviews Wynton for CBS’s 60 Minutes 2004

Posted on October 14th, 2004 in Profiles & Interviews, Video

For more than a decade, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been trying to build a new home for jazz, a theater tailored to this unique art form.
Now, what had been a dream for musician and artistic director Wynton Marsalis is about to become reality. And he tells Correspondent Ed Bradley it’s proof that jazz is not, as many critics have charged, struggling to survive.