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Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces 2016-17 Concert & Education Season
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis anchors 29th Season celebrating the centennials of the first known jazz recording, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk, and Buddy Rich. Renowned artists headline in Rose Theater with appearances by Kurt Elling, Wycliffe Gordon, Branford Marsalis, Brad Mehldau, Steve Miller, Eddie Palmieri, Danilo Perez, Dianne Reeves, Catherine Russell, and more Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces 15 Finalists for the 2016 Essentially Ellington Competition
Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announces the 15 finalist bands that will compete in the 21st Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival – one of the most innovative jazz education events in the world – at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s home, Frederick P. Rose Hall, on May 5 – 7, 2016. The following finalists are among nearly 100 high school jazz bands across North America that entered the competition. Keep reading »
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Performs Night of Gershwin
The rhythm was absolutely fascinating at the Rose Theater over this past weekend as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by its virtuoso artistic director Wynton Marsalis—the Pied-Piper trumpeter of America’s signature musical art form—reinvigorated the George Gershwin songbook with all its ragtime and stride-piano splendor. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis’ favorite New York jazz clubs
Wynton Marsalis was born in the Big Easy, but the Big Apple’s been his home since he was a Juilliard student. His Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will give the music of Stevie Wonder, The Beatles and more the J@LC treatment with their “Jazz in the Key of Life” concerts Friday and Jan. 16 at the Rose Theater; tickets at jazz.org. Here, the globe-trotting 54-year-old father of four tells BARBARA HOFFMAN how he spends a rare weekend at home. Keep reading »
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Jazz in the Key of Life at JALC
Led by Music Director and lead Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Vincent Gardner, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis presents Jazz in the Key of Life on January 15 & 16, 2016 at 8pm in Rose Theater, located in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York. Gardner and fellow members of the JLCO will debut more than a dozen new jazz arrangements of r&b and pop classics from the late 1960s and 1970s. Keep reading »
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Juilliard Jazz Presents “The Extended Works of Wynton Marsalis”
Juilliard Jazz presents “The Extended Works of Wynton Marsalis” performed by Juilliard Jazz Ensembles on Monday, December 7, 2015, at 7:30pm in Juilliard’s Paul Hall. The program will feature selections from Citi Movement (Griot New York) (1992) and from the Marciac Suite (1999). Keep reading »
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Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Plays Monk
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis play the music of Thelonious Monk on Friday & Saturday, October 23 & 24, 2015, 8pm at The Town Hall (123 W 43rd St, New York), continuing Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2015-16 season with this limited engagement at one of New York City’s premiere cultural venues. The orchestra is joined by special guest pianists Joey Alexander and Brad Mehldau. Keep reading »
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Carlos Henriquez Radiates Gratitude in a South Bronx Homecoming
Nearly every note from Carlos Henriquez, the bassist for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, is cool, clear, judicious, full of body and intent. His sound doesn’t grasp or rush; informed by the economy of Afro-Latin tumbao bass patterns, it connects and assists. It has its moral priorities straight. Keep reading »
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Carlos Henriquez: Back in The Bronx - Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Bassist Carlos Henriquez leads Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guests Bobby Allende and Marc Quiñones to open the 2015-16 season Keep reading »
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Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
When the saxophonist Wayne Shorter has come through town over the past 15 years or so, he has generally been with his quartet, a group that plays soul-drilling, gonzo-Zen interventions on about 50 years’ worth of his music. There is much open space in these performances, much insight and mystery, a settling into a zone between direction and indirection. Apart from Mr. Shorter’s stature as a small-group composer in jazz — the best, pretty much — the alert and unscripted way the quartet operates has for many listeners represented a current ideal for how jazz works and what it can contain: immediacy, collectivity, discipline, freedom. Keep reading »