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JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER SALUTES WORLD’S TOP HIGH SCHOOL BIG BANDS WITH ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER SALUTES WORLD’S TOP HIGH SCHOOL BIG BANDS WITH ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND VIRTUAL FESTIVAL
23 high school big bands from around the world, largest group in festival’s history, celebrate 25 years of Essentially Ellington, nation’s premier jazz education eventDue to ongoing concerns surrounding the pandemic, closures have upended Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 25th Anniversary Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival—and the opportunity that more than 400 high school students earned this year to perform at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.