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  • Cyrus Chestnut Trio

    Virtuosity and warmth emanate from the bandstand whenever Cyrus Chestnut sits at the piano. The master practitioner’s staggering resume as a leader and a highly sought collaborator includes meaningful associations with such icons as Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Regina Carter, James Moody, Kathle...

  • Christian X. M. McGhee Orchestra

    In this recent May 2024 performance, award-winning multi-instrumentalist and film composer Christian X. M. McGhee leads his 10-piece string orchestra and band The Xtet at Dizzy’s Club, premiering his debut album and BMI commission, A Winged Resilience. Signaling McGhee’s creative poise and burgeo...

  • Sarah Hanahan – Among Giants

    Dizzy's club welcomes rising star alto saxophonist Sarah Hanahan to celebrate the release of her debut album Among Giants (OUT NOW). The saxophonist, composer, and rising band leader features the same all-star, intergenerational quartet featured on the record for an energetic evening full of blis...

  • What Is New Orleans Jazz?

    Hosted by beloved vocalist Catherine Russell, the daughter of long-time Louis Armstrong associate Luis Russell, this family-friendly concert explores the musical styles of New Orleans—the birthplace of jazz.

  • Terell Stafford, Rodney Whitaker, and Friends

    Trumpet player and composer Terell Stafford has been leading the jazz and instrumental studies programs at Temple University in addition to his own projects. His personal delivery of a virtuosic vocabulary draws in listeners at every turn. Bassist and composer Rodney Whitaker transmits an express...

  • Essentially Ellington 2024: Final Awards

    Watch the final awards ceremony from the 2024 installment of the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band and Festival. Congrats to this year's winners!

  • Camille Thurman and The Darrell Green Quartet: Burt Bacharach Reimagined

    For her highly anticipated debut as an Appel Room headliner, Camille Thurman joined forces with one of the leading master drummers on today’s jazz scene, Darrell Green, and his seasoned quartet. Together, Thurman and The Darrell Green Quartet play a collection of their favorite love songs from ma...

  • Wynton Marsalis' Swing Symphony (Symphony No. 3)

    Classical Roots honors and celebrates African American composers, musicians, educators, and cultural and civic leaders. This celebration features Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis alongside the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, who take the stage to perform Marsalis’s own Swing Symp...

  • In Conversation: Wynton Marsalis and Terence Blanchard, with Christian McBride

    Moderated and DJ’ed by renowned bassist and composer Christian McBride, this conversation between Wynton Marsalis and Terrence Blanchard in the Appel Room captures the duo's long, shared history, from New Orleans to Art Blakey's band to their current roles as leaders of two of the world's foremos...

  • The Music of Toshiko Akiyoshi

    Watch the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and master tenor saxophonist Lew Tabackin celebrate the titanic legacy of pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi.

    National Women’s History Museum says Akiyoshi “changed the face of jazz music over her sixty-year career. As one of fe...

  • Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie

    Dizzy Gillespie was a visionary architect of bebop, a peerless trumpet virtuoso, and a gifted educator, dancer, and raconteur. Watch the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis dig deep into the musical world of Dizzy. As much a revolution as it was a movement, bebop ushered in the ...

  • Leonard Bernstein at 100

    The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis offers a truly unique celebration of master educator, composer, and musical thinker Leonard Bernstein. Grammy Award-nominated composer and arranger Richard DeRosa, whose significant talent is recognized from Broadway to industry-leading ja...

  • Swing University—Holiday Edition

    Join Swing University Curator Seton Hawkins as he provides an in-depth look at the histories of five classic holiday tunes, from the beautiful to the bizarre. Sharing recordings by the JLCO with guest vocalists Catherine Russell and Denzal Sinclaire, Seton invites you to grab your favorite hot be...

  • Azar Lawrence Experience

    A saxophonist for many of jazz's greats (including McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard and more), Azar Lawrence brings the seven-piece Azar Lawrence Experience to Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club. The Experience encompasses Azar's music, art and spirituality; in this performance, the g...