On August 4, 2023, on what would have been Louis Armstrong’s 122nd birthday—although many celebrate the trailblazer on July 4, as he was lovingly hailed as a “firecracker baby” by his mother—Blue Engine Records proudly releases Wynton Marsalis Plays Louis Armstrong’s...

Jazz at Lincoln Center today announced the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation and more than 35 other individual and section awards in the prestigious 28th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival at Frederick P....

On May 5 and 6, at 8:00 p.m. in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, Grammy nominated Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra bassist-composer-arranger Carlos Henriquez leads an all-star band to celebrate the respective centennial birthdays of Mambo Kings Tito Puente and...

Today, Marcus Printup, Trumpet, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, announced the 15 finalists for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 28th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival, the hallmark program for the largest jazz education network in...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and master tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin will celebrate the magisterial legacy of composer and pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi who the National Women’s History Museum says, “changed the face of jazz music over her...

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) announces the addition of special guests Grammy Award-winning bassist, singer and composer Richard Bona (on Friday, February 24) and Grammy nominated vocalist and composer SOMI (on Saturday, February 25) to South African pianist-composer...