Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis today proudly announce Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020–21 concert season. The concert season — Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 33rd — begins on September 25, 2020, and will feature Blue Engine Records releases, worldwide touring, education programs, and 33 unique programs in Rose Theater and The Appel Room, in addition to more than 350 nights of music in Dizzy’s Club, all at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located at Broadway at 60th Street in New York, New York.

Dizzy’s Club celebrates Jazz Appreciation month with a diverse repertoire and lineup featuring international artists, contemporary jazz musicians, and rising stars. Highlights include Christian McBride, Benny Green and Greg Hutchinson’s tribute to Ray Brown (April 7–12); and the Flamenco Festival New York with guitarist Chicuelo, pianist Marco Mezquida, and percussionist Paco de Mode(April 1–2).

Mary Stallings, an extraordinary vocalist and fan-favorite headliner at Jazz at Lincoln Center, will return to The Appel Room stage with the Emmet Cohen Trio and special guest Freddy Cole at Frederick P. Rose Hall on April 17 & 18 at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.

The 2020 Saint Lucia Jazz Festival Produced in Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center announces exciting additions to the lineup for the festival which will take place in Saint Lucia on May 7-9, 2020.

Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced the 18 finalists who will compete in its 25th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival–the nation’s premier jazz education event–on May 7-9, 2020. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Essentially Ellington, Jazz at Lincoln Center has invited an unprecedented number of the country’s top high school jazz bands to compete for top honors in New York City.

In the concert event Masters of Form: From Mingus to Monk, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis performs some of the most masterfully structured pieces of the jazz canon, written by musical architects such as Jelly Roll Morton, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and George Russell.