On February 28 -29 at 8:00 p.m., the multi-Grammy Award–winning Branford Marsalis Quartet returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. In addition to performing tunes that have established Marsalis as a standard-bearer of modern instrumental jazz, the group will perform selections from the GRAMMY-Award nominated album The Secrets Between the Shadow and the Soul featuring new originals by Marsalis and members of the band.

Blue Engine Records,Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house recording label, releases Sherman Irby’s Inferno by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Irby, the lead alto saxophonist of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, cleverly interprets Dante Alighieri’s epic poem from “The Divine Comedy” to create a sweeping work that takes listeners on a lyrically swinging tour of the underworld’s nine circles. Sherman Irby’s Inferno will be available exclusively on all digital platforms on January 17, 2020.

Jazz at Lincoln Center and JazzTimes today announced NEA Jazz Master, pianist, composer, and educator Dr. Barry Harris is the recipient of the 2020 Bruce Lundvall Visionary Award in recognition of Dr. Harris’ dedication as a mentor to hundreds of jazz artists for nearly half a century. His continued inspiration to these artists has led them to reach new audiences with their own work.

Drummer extraordinaire Herlin Riley, one of today’s hardest-grooving, most infectiously energetic drummers, returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center for the concert event, Herlin Riley Presents: Sounds of Cuba and New Orleans on Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m., and 9:30 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s The Appel Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall, located at Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY.

Dizzy’s Club sets the tone for the most romantic day of the year with a Valentine’s Day celebration inclusive of love and live music. Grammy Award-nominated jazz pianist and vocalist Freddy Cole returns to the club to perform Songs for Lovers (February 14-17).Legendary vocalist and “Queen of Cabaret” Marilyn Maye performs iconic tunes with music director Tedd Firth at the piano (February 21-23).

On the heels of Blue Engine Records’ banner 2019─which included six album releases and a GRAMMY® Award-nomination for Una Noche con Rubén Blades─Jazz at Lincoln Center’s in-house recording label proudly announces plans to release four new albums featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in January and February of 2020. These releases include The Music of Wayne Shorter, which finds tenor saxophone titan Wayne Shorter performing some of his most beloved compositions alongside the JLCO and will be available digitally and on CD January 31.