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New Orleans Music Documentary ‘Up From The Streets’ Gets Virtual Cinema Release
A new documentary, Up From The Streets, on New Orleans music arrives via virtual cinema on May 15. The film features interviews with NOLA musicians Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. and more as well commentary from Keith Richards, Robert Plant, Sting and Bonnie Raitt, among others. Keep reading »
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Wynton Marsalis On KU Basketball, Jazz and the state of things
A new jazz album is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Lied Center of Kansas by honoring the Kansas Jayhawks. Keep reading »
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Louis Armstrong Foundation Sets Up Fund For NYC Jazz Musicians
The Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation has launched a $1 million emergency fund to support freelance New York City-area jazz musicians during the coronavirus pandemic. 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 »
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Blue Engine Chronicles Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Performances
Since it was founded in 2015, Blue Engine Records has been documenting the work of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra—an effort gathering steam with a series of digital releases suffused with musical, social and even spiritual import. Keep reading »
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Ellis Marsalis, 1934 - 2020
He went out the way he lived: embracing reality Keep reading »
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Blue Engine Records To Release The Fifties: A Prism By The Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis
Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house record label, will release The Fifties: A Prism by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Composed and arranged by Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Christopher Crenshaw Keep reading »
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Skain’s Domain: An Intimate Weekly Conversation with Wynton Marsalis
Tonight, at 9PM EDT, join Wynton on Zoom for “Skain’s Domain,” a conversation about how to stay connected, optimistic, and creative at this crazy moment in time.Everyone is invited. Please fill out the form linked here no later than 8pm EDT. You will be emailed the Zoom link and password by 8:45pm. Keep reading »
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Jazz At Lincoln Center Announces Portal To Access Concerts And Education Offerings
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jazz at Lincoln Center is making available a robust, curated and weekly program of offerings to reach people all over the world and bring the healing power of jazz music into homes and communities. Keep reading »
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Postponed: Jazz At Lincoln Center’s 25Th Annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival
Jazz at Lincoln Center places a priority on the health and safety of our concertgoers, artists, guests, patrons, program participants and staff. In response to the growing concerns about the spread of COVID-19, the organization has postponed the nation’s premier jazz education event, the 25th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, scheduled to take place in Frederick P. Rose Hall, The House of Swing, on May 7-9, 2020. Keep reading »