2019-20 Jazz at Lincoln Center Season Concerts

Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis announce the 2019–20 season of concerts featuring world premieres,exclusive collaborations, renowned guest artists, and events celebrating milestones and major figures in jazz.

Pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Charles McPherson, two of jazz’s greatest living legends will perform their iconic compositions with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on April 5─6 at 8pm. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York, New York.

(February 13, 2019 at 3pm) Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced the 15 finalists who will compete in its 24th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival–the nation’s premier jazz education event–in New York City on May 9-11, 2019. The competition unites students from coast to coast, and from diverse backgrounds to find harmony together while playing some of the most complex music ever written.

Jazz at Lincoln Center announces two additional shows in its three-part salute to Miles Davis during the 2018-19 season: Family Concert: Who is Miles Davis?, March 23 at 1pm and 3pm; and Marcus Miller: Electric Miles, March 29–30 at 8pm.

The Dizzy’s Club stage showcases the diversity of burgeoning jazz talent today, ranging from students at premier institutions of all ages, women breaking boundaries, to international jazz leaders.