Tonight, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Virtual Festival, Wynton Marsalis announced the Outstanding Soloists and Sections of the 26th annual event.

Beginning on June 10, at 7:30pm ET, in the final Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concert of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s virtual spring season, the world renowned orchestra will perform a big band rendition of John Coltrane’s immortal A Love Supreme. In this concert event entitled, “Coltrane: A Love Supreme,” saxophonist Camille Thurman will be featured as guest soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to perform the seminal piece as well as arrangements of Coltrane works predicated upon concepts of freedom and liberation, both temporal and spiritual.

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.

Today, Blue Engine Records releases the first recording of Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2), an innovative and colossal work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis. In the hands of The Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of celebrated conductor Cristian Măcelaru, Blues Symphony (Marsalis’s second symphony) takes the 12-bar blues and explodes it into a lyrical, kaleidoscopic history of American music.

Nearly 100 panelists, several performances, and 21 interactive panels, programs, and masterclasses will be featured at the 2021 Jazz Congress, a virtual conference designed to address the concerns and needs facing the global jazz community during this challenging, unprecedented time.

Jazz at Lincoln Center announces Grand Seiko as “Official Timekeeper” of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020-21/2021-22 season. A brand that raises the pure essentials of watchmaking to an art form, Grand Seiko will be a sponsor of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020-21/2021-22 concert seasons.