Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Rose Theater.
Rose Theater.
Peter Jay Sharp arcade
Peter Jay Sharp arcade
The sign outside Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The sign outside Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., whose performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly adjacent to Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall is housed inside of the Time Warner Center. The complex opened in October 2004. The complex was designed by acclaimed Uruguayan-American architect, Rafael Viñoly and constructed by Turner Construction Company.

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Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall consists of three main music performance venues:

  • Rose Theater, with 1,233 seats.
  • The Allen Room, with 483 seats, featuring a 50 by 90-foot window overlooking Central Park. This room is also used by Ellen DeGeneres during her Thanksgiving week show in New York City.[1]
  • Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, with 140 seats, an intimate jazz club named after the famous jazz artist Dizzy Gillespie.

The hall also contains the Irene Diamond Education Center with rehearsal and recording rooms and the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, a multimedia installation featuring an 18-foot video wall, interactive computer kiosks and touch-activated virtual plaques. Visitors can celebrate the lives, artistry and music of the jazz greats so integral to the art form and industry. Jazz at Lincoln Center recently launched a website based on the NEJHF making the experience available online at [1].

Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children’s concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops. Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce nearly 3,000 events during its 2007-08 season. For more information, visit [2].

Wynton Marsalis serves as the Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center while the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) serves as the organization's resident orchestra performing at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center and around the world.

Jazz at Lincoln Center's educational mission encompasses 22 programs and resources that reach upwards of 50,000 people directly and an estimated four million people through curricula, print music and online re­sources. Beginning at just eight months old, little ones can swing, stomp and shuffle with "WeBop!". Families and school groups delight in the "Jazz for Young People concert series" and "Jazz in the Schools" tours that bring professional ensembles across NYC. Teachers across the country bring these concerts back to their classrooms with the "Jazz for Young People" Curriculum (which is also available online at[3]) and make connections between jazz and American history with "NEA Jazz in the Schools". Check it out here: [4]. Jazz at Lincoln Center also streams their education events online making events accessible to everyone at [5].

Jazz at Lincoln Center's educational programs nurture young instrumentalists through the Middle School Jazz Academy, a tuition-free instructional program for NYC students. And for the past 13 years, the Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival has supported high school jazz bands nationwide by nurturing the study and performance of Duke Ellington’s music in the classroom and by producing a three-day festival of workshops with members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, jam sessions and competition. The summer "Band Director Academy", customized teacher training workshops and print music library (including the Jazz for Young People series, Essentially Ellington Library and Essential Jazz Editions series) further sustain music programs worldwide.

At Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, adult learners develop their listening skills and delve into jazz history at "Swing University", "Jazz Talk" and the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. For more information on Jazz at Lincoln Center education, check out [6]

[edit] Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame

Bust of Nesuhi Ertegün at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall
Bust of Nesuhi Ertegün at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall

On September 30, 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated the dedication of the Nesuhi Ertegun Hall of Fame. The hall is named for the late Nesuhi Ertegun, one of the founders of Atlantic Records, which released records by Coltrane and Mingus, among other important jazz figures. A 60-person international voting panel, which includes musicians, scholars and educators from 17 countries, is charged to nominate and select the most definitive artists in the history of jazz for induction into the Hall of Fame.[2][7]

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2004

2005

2007


2008

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Ellen DeGeneres in NYC
  2. ^ Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame

Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame website

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