Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC), known as the House of Swing, kicks off its 37th season and celebrates the 20th anniversary of Frederick P. Rose Hall, home to the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), with Hot Jazz & Swing: The Ertegun Jazz Concert, September 19-21, 2024, at 7:30pm ET in Rose Theater. Featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and guest vocalists Kurt Elling and Shenel Johns, co-music directed by Wynton Marsalis and Grammy Award-winning composer, saxophonist, and senior scholar of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Loren Schoenberg.
Hot Jazz & Swing delves into the vibrant music of the 1920s and ’30s, highlighting works from pivotal bands of the era, including Fletcher Henderson’s “Blue Skies,” Duke Ellington’s “The Flaming Sword,” and Paul Whiteman’s “San.” Loren Schoenberg, who has collaborated with jazz legends like Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, and Marian McPartland, reunites with Wynton Marsalis and the JLCO for their first collaboration since 2002. Hired in 2001 to lead the effort to establish the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Schoenberg has served for more than a decade as its executive director, creating many of its signal programs and enlisting Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, Jonathan Batiste and Ken Burns to help further the museum’s mission.
The JLCO with Wynton Marsalis will be joined by Grammy Award-winner Kurt Elling, performing “Flamingo” (Duke Ellington) and “Sent for You Yesterday” (Count Basie Orchestra). Shenel Johns will also take the stage, singing “Why Don’t You Do Right” (Benny Goodman Orchestra) and “Sentimental Journey” (Les Brown Orchestra).
Hot Jazz & Swing is held at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, located at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City. For more information and to purchase tickets to Hot Jazz and Swing visit: jazz.org/hot-jazz
Hot Jazz & Swing is available on-demand. For Livestream information: jazzlive.com
In October 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Rose Hall, the world’s first performance facility designed specifically for sound, function, and the feeling of jazz. “The whole space is dedicated to the feeling of swing, which is a feeling of extreme coordination,” explained Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis of his vision for what would eventually become known as the House of Swing. “Everything is integrated: the relationship between one space and another, the relationship between the audience and the musicians, is one fluid motion, because that’s how our music is.”