Jazz at Lincoln Center’s two-week residential high school summer institute for advanced study in jazz performance, Summer Jazz Academy, includes three public concerts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. These public concerts feature today’s finest...

Summer favorites return to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in August, including Jazz House Kids with host Christian McBride (August 6); Jane Bunnett and Maqueque (August 8–9); Ted Nash Quintet (August 10–12); and Trio da Paz & Friends with Maucha Adnet, Harry Allen, and...

Jazz at Lincoln Center and JazzTimes today announced the dates for the 2019 Jazz Congress, a conference which brings together members of the global jazz community to network, as well as grow the audience for the music. The annual gathering also seeks to nurture...

Performances at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in July celebrate jazz’s most influential artists and outstanding members of the jazz community during the three-night Ertegun Hall of Fame Festival. On International Jazz Appreciation Day, Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the...

Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announces the three top-placing high school jazz bands in the nation that took the highest honors tonight at the prestigious 23rd Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival at Frederick P. Rose...

In 1994, Wynton Marsalis premiered his first big band composition commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center, Blood on the Fields, about a couple’s journey from slavery to freedom. Nearly 25 years after the premiere of this powerful work which earned him a Pulitzer Prize...

Eddie Daniels, Harlem String Quartet and Ted Nash: Jazz in the Chamber, the final Appel Room performance of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 30th anniversary season, reveals  the respective influence jazz and classical have had on each other throughout history, and...

In recognition of International Jazz Day (celebrated worldwide on April 30), Jazz at Lincoln Center announces the 2018 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame inductees ranging from an obscure yet monumentally influential bassist to one of American music’s most popular crossover...

The Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola stage in June showcases personal projects by members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, including Ted Nash with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra (June 4), Paul Nedzela Quartet (June 12-13), Victor Goines (June 14-17), and...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis celebrates one of jazz's great original geniuses: composer, Pulitzer Prize winner, and alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman (1930–2015). 2017 Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger, saxophonist, and bandleader Ted...

Vocalist-composer Somi, described as “the new high priestess of soul” by the Huffington Post, and special guest British superstar Laura Mvula, will honor two of the most uncompromising vocalists of the 20th century in Miriam Makeba & Nina Simone: Singing Protest...

Crosscurrents, the international super-group led by 2017 NEA Jazz Master bassist Dave Holland and the world's foremost tabla virtuoso Zakir Hussain, will make its first-ever New York City appearance in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, May 4–5. Crosscurrents'...

Every May, the sounds of Duke Ellington fill the halls of the House of Swing as hundreds of high school students across the country participate in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Competition and Festival. These students graduate and often...

In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, Jazz at Lincoln Center offers jazz fans around the world the opportunity to participate in the 2018 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame induction process.  The public can cast votes...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis continues to celebrate the big band tradition during the 30th anniversary season with Black, Brown & Beige & The Best of Basie, April 26–28 in Rose Theater. This concert features essential big band...

In celebration of National Jazz Appreciation Month, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola showcases rising stars and veteran artists in the jazz world, celebrating the extraordinary heritage and history of jazz throughout April. The Monday lineups feature university big bands and...

Michael Feinstein, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Director of the Jazz & Popular Song series, brings back American Songbook classics for the eighth consecutive year with three unique programs in The Appel Room–Celebrating Frank, Dean & Sammy (March 28-29), The...

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents the Appel Room debut of The Swing Collective, a new quintet of talented young musicians representing five countries of origin, March 23-24. The Swing Collective – featuring Grammy Award-winning American drummer, composer, and...

Embodying Jazz at Lincoln Center’s motto, “Timeless Is Modern,” the  Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will  interpret classic nursery rhymes in modern jazz style in the unique concert event, Nursery Song Swing in Rose Theater, March 9-10. American...

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s hour-long pre-concert discussions are led by musicologists and scholars as they discuss the featured artist’s music and legacy, taking an in-depth look at their contributions to the genre. This free pre-concert discussion will explore the...

Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis announce the 2018-19 season of concerts that highlight jazz’s diverse, adaptable, and inclusive nature and reveal both the music’s history and its continuing evolution. The season features 31...

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola presents over 20 sets featuring women in jazz throughout March. Highlights include Denise Thimes (March 6-7); Duchess with vocalists Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner and Melissa Stylianou (March 21); Miho Hazama and m_unit (March 25); Judy Carmichael...

NEA Jazz Master, Carnegie Hall Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and 14-time Grammy Award winner Paquito D'Rivera returns to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater with To Bird with Strings for two nights only, March 16-17. To Bird with Strings is a tribute to...

Jazz at Lincoln Center proudly announces the 15 finalist bands that will compete in the 23rd Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival – one of the most innovative jazz education events in the world – at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s...

Jazz at Lincoln Center brings Rags, Strides & Habaneras, a visually dazzling showcase of musical traditions at the core of jazz, Latin jazz, and popular styles from throughout the Americas, to The Appel Room on March 2-3, 2018 at 7pm and 9:30pm each night. Four...

Blue Engine Records makes the most memorable performances from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s historic gala concerts available for the first time with the release of United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas. The album—which features some of the 20th...

Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas returns to The Appel Room, February 23–24,  with Ambrose Akinmusire, Joey Baron, Gerald Clayton, Bill Frisell, and Linda May Han Oh to explore the music and legacy of the legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie through a 21st...

Jazz at Lincoln Center is the ultimate destination for those who love to celebrate “love” with live music. Five-time Grammy Award-winning Dianne Reeves (February 9–10) returns to fill Rose Theater with her effortlessly powerful sound and unusually broad spectrum of...