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CHARLES LLOYD AT 85

NEA JAZZ MASTER DEMONSTRATES UNPARALLELED VIRTUOSITY WITH TWO ALL-STAR BANDS ON TWO SEPARATE NIGHTS IN JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER’S ROSE THEATER • Charles Lloyd with group Sangam featuring percussionist Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland on Oct. 13 at 8:00 p.m. • Charles Lloyd with his New Quartet featuring Eric Harland, Jason Moran, and Reuben Rogers on Oct. 14 at 8:00 p.m.

Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly celebrates the 85th birthday of Charles Lloyd, NEA Jazz Master and tenor saxophone poet, on two separate nights in Rose Theater. On Oct. 13, the concert features the long-awaited return of Sangam, the trio with Indian percussionist Zakir...

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CHARLES LLOYD AT 85

NEA JAZZ MASTER DEMONSTRATES UNPARALLELED VIRTUOSITY WITH TWO ALL-STAR BANDS ON TWO SEPARATE NIGHTS IN JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER’S ROSE THEATER • Charles Lloyd with group Sangam featuring percussionist Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland on Oct. 13 at 8:00 p.m. • Charles Lloyd with his New Quartet featuring Eric Harland, Jason Moran, and Reuben Rogers on Oct. 14 at 8:00 p.m.

Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly celebrates the 85th birthday of Charles Lloyd, NEA Jazz Master and tenor saxophone poet, on two separate nights in Rose Theater. On Oct. 13, the concert features the long-awaited return of Sangam, the trio with Indian percussionist Zakir...

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Roy Hargrove’s The Love Suite: In Mahogany – Live from Jazz at Lincoln Center available on all streaming platforms on October 13, 2023

Never-before-heard, one-time performance of original Hargrove commission Part of a Hargrove birthday celebration featuring Dizzy’s Club performances by: Jones & Cannon on October 11-13 Roy Hargrove Big Band on October 14-16 New Swing University Course: The Music of Roy Hargrove led by Sherman Irby

Roy Hargrove, named “the most impactful trumpeter of his generation” by The New York Times, left behind a remarkable legacy when he passed in 2018. Now, Blue Engine Records, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s (JALC) in-house record label, celebrates Hargrove’s legacy with the...

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2023-24 Season Opener: ‘Beyond Black Codes’ on Sept. 21-23, and Blue Engine Records Re-Issues 5 Wynton Marsalis Albums

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER 2023-24 SEASON OPENING WEEKEND: BEYOND BLACK CODES  FEATURING THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS ON SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2023, 8:00 P.M. FOLLOWED BY U.S. TOUR DATES  BLUE ENGINE RE-MASTERS and RE-ISSUES   WYNTON MARSALIS ALBUMS:  -LIVE AT THE HOUSE OF TRIBES  -FROM THE PLANTATION TO THE PENITENTIARY  -UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS:   THE RISE AND FALL OF JACK JOHNSON  -HE AND SHE  -THE MAGIC HOUR   AVAILABLE NOW ON DIGITAL STREAMING PLATFORMS 

The world premiere of Beyond Black Codes featuring big band arrangements of songs from Wynton Marsalis’s highly influential small group albums will open Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-24 season on Sept. 21-23, 2023, at 8:00pm in Rose Theater.  Jazz at Lincoln Center’s...

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Blue Engine Records Releases Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens on streaming platforms on August 4, 2023

BLUE ENGINE RECORDS ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF WYNTON MARSALIS PLAYS LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S HOT FIVES AND SEVENS

Live album featuring an all-star band including trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and pianist Jon Batiste

Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s Hot Fives and Sevens  available on all streaming platforms on August 4, 2023

On August 4, 2023, on what would have been Louis Armstrong’s 122nd birthday—although many celebrate the trailblazer on July 4, as he was lovingly hailed as a “firecracker baby” by his mother—Blue Engine Records proudly releases Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s...

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2023 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition Winners

Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces 2023 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition Winners 

First Place Winner:  Osceola County School for the Arts (Kissimmee, FL)

Second Place Winner:  Susan E. Wagner High School (Staten Island, NY)

Third Place Winner:  New World School of the Arts (Miami, FL)

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 28th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at Frederick P....

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