The fruits of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s educational mission will be on display with Internationally Ellington, featuring a hand-picked ensemble of some of the greatest young talent in jazz meeting the challenges posed by Duke Ellington, JALC’s lodestar and jazz’s greatest composer. “Duke played wi...

Perhaps no European city looms as large in the history of jazz as Paris. Travel to France and explore the full range of the city's scene, from apartment jam sessions to a Django-centric festiva ln in the country, from a dedicated radio DJ to some of the world's hottest clubs.

In creative collaboration with social justice activist and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents Freedom, Justice, and Hope with Bryan Stevenson, a multi-disciplinary concert event performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. ...

Called the “female João Gilberto,” Rosa Passos is a living legend. A prolific, distinct vocalist and guitarist with a playful yet sophisticated style, her four sold-out shows in the Appel Room with Kenny Barron in 2016 were a season highlight at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Now, before her March 24-25...

This March, pianist Isaiah J. Thompson's first live album—The Power of the Spirit—is coming out on Blue Engine Records. "A young musician and composer with a mature touch and rare combination of talent, creativity, humility and honesty” (NPR), Thompson is an emerging, generational talent who has ...

Named in tribute to his native Philadelphia, New Jawn celebrates a colossal musicianship among eight-time Grammy Award-winning bassist Christian McBride and his fellow artist-composers — one that bonds instinct and mastery. Though they came up in different cities, all four artists inhabit the Phi...

In 2016, acclaimed pianist and composer Helen Sung received a rare opportunity to arrange a piece for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Since then, she has honed her craft writing for larger ensembles, winning the 2022 BMI Charlie Parker Prize for big band composition, and a 2021 Guggenheim F...

Feeding each other’s creative fires, saxophonist-composer JD Allen and guitarist-composer Charlie Hunter explore a broad and integrative legacy of the blues through very personal, often experiential connections to the music, its lineage, and its staggering influence. Together, they deliver a rumi...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Paquito D’Rivera perform a pair of exclusive JALC commissions by mid-career masters—Tres Aguas by Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca and Colors of Colombia by Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda. Castañeda is a transformative v...

NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi has been riveting listeners for the past seven decades. A singular voice within the music’s lineage, Akiyoshi plays with a virtuosic clarity and resonating emotional connection to the art form she loves so much. Initially moved by hearing recordings from Teddy Wil...

Guitarist, composer, and stylistic chameleon Romero Lubambo has collaborated with such colossal artists as Dianne Reeves, Billie Eilish, Angelique Kidjo, Michael Brecker, Yo-Yo Ma, Kathleen Battle, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Luciana Souza, Ivan Lins, Grover Washington, Jr., Paquito D’Rivera, ...

Musicians pay homage to the legacy of pioneering artist and global activist, the late Hugh Masekela. His technical mastery of the trumpet, deeply personal interpretation of vocabulary, and passionate expression allowed the South African artist to reach international audiences and collaborate with...