Big Band Holidays, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s beloved festive concert event, returns to the House of Swing to spread good cheer this holiday season. The world renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guest vocalist Alita Moses, music...

Big Band Holidays, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s beloved festive concert event, returns to the House of Swing to spread good cheer this holiday season. The world renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guest vocalist Alita Moses, music directed by Marcus Printup, will perform a repertoire of soulful big band arrangements of songs both sacred and secular from December 15-19 in Rose Theater, located in Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is proud to announce the second annual Jack Rudin Jazz Championship, a two-day invitational competition featuring ensembles from ten of the most well-regarded university jazz programs in the country. For the first time since March 2020, students will perform publicly on the Rose Theater stage for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jack Rudin Jazz Championship, set to take place on January 10-11, 2022 throughout Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located on Broadway at 60th Street, New York, New York.

After 20 months of closures due to the pandemic, Jazz at Lincoln Center opens its doors to live audiences on November 18-20, 2021 at 8:00p.m. ET and celebrates Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis’s 60th birthday in the opening night concerts, Wynton at 60.

Jazz at Lincoln Center and Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis today proudly announce the organization’s 2021–22 season of live, in-person performances in Rose Theater, The Appel Room, and Dizzy’s Club— all at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at...

Come experience both in-person and virtual performances from our global community of world-class jazz musicians in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s most intimate venue. Dizzy's Club offers live jazz performances with panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, a warm ambiance,...

Tonight, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Virtual Festival, Wynton Marsalis announced the Outstanding Soloists and Sections of the 26th annual event. These high school students were recognized at an awards ceremony that...

Tonight, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Virtual Festival, Wynton Marsalis announced the Outstanding Soloists and Sections of the 26th annual event.

Beginning on June 10, at 7:30pm ET, in the final Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concert of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s virtual spring season, the world renowned orchestra will perform a big band rendition of John Coltrane’s immortal A Love Supreme. In this concert event entitled, “Coltrane: A Love Supreme,” saxophonist Camille Thurman will be featured as guest soloist with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to perform the seminal piece as well as arrangements of Coltrane works predicated upon concepts of freedom and liberation, both temporal and spiritual.

Beginning today through June 5, 2021, more than two hundred of the top high school students from coast to coast will participate in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2021 Virtual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival.

Today, Blue Engine Records releases the first recording of Blues Symphony (Symphony No. 2), an innovative and colossal work from Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Wynton Marsalis. In the hands of The Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of celebrated conductor Cristian Măcelaru, Blues Symphony (Marsalis’s second symphony) takes the 12-bar blues and explodes it into a lyrical, kaleidoscopic history of American music.

Nearly 100 panelists, several performances, and 21 interactive panels, programs, and masterclasses will be featured at the 2021 Jazz Congress, a virtual conference designed to address the concerns and needs facing the global jazz community during this challenging, unprecedented time.

Jazz at Lincoln Center announces Grand Seiko as “Official Timekeeper” of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020-21/2021-22 season. A brand that raises the pure essentials of watchmaking to an art form, Grand Seiko will be a sponsor of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2020-21/2021-22 concert seasons.

Faced with enormous challenges due to concerns around COVID-19, band directors and high school student jazz musicians around the country have applied innovative and creative approaches to perform with and learn from each other. Inspired by this dedication and commitment, Jazz at Lincoln Center continues its support for this unique community and today announced plans to salute these high school students at the 2021 Virtual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival on June 4—5, 2021.

To ensure the safety of participants during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Jazz at Lincoln Center and JazzTimes will hold this year’s edition of the annual Jazz Congress conference online, featuring interactive programs and performances designed to address the concerns and needs facing the global jazz community during this challenging, unprecedented time.