Jerome Robbins was an inveterate observer, seeker, and creator. In diaries, drawings, watercolors, paintings, story scenarios, poems—and, especially, in dance—he reimagined the world around him. And New York dominated that world, where he was born one-hundred years ago and where he lived his entire ...

The Ambassadors: Armstrong, Goodman, Ellington, Brubeck, and Gillespie Juilliard Jazz's most advanced group opens their season with a sampler from Jazz legends around the world that span the Jazz continuum.

The Oberlin Conservatory Jazz Department celebrates 25 years in 2019. This year also sees the debut of the Oberlin Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble. Membership in “The Sonny Ensemble” is awarded through audition to outstanding Oberlin student musicians who, in the tradition of Rollins himself, exhibit ex...

Romero Lubambo is a Brazilian guitar virtuoso and one-third of the unstoppable Trio da Paz—a group that sells out Dizzy's Club every summer for two weeks straight—and a longtime member of Dianne Reeves’s band. Tonight he joins the Rafael Piccolotto de Lima Chamber Project, an elite 12-piece orchestr...

Atrium 360°   Lyrical melodies performed on traditional Korean folk instruments are amplified with guitar, electronics, and improvisation into a fierce quake of sound when this four-piece band hits the stage. Founded in 2011, Black String has performed at festivals and venues around the world...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra (JLCYO) consists of 20 exceedingly talented and dedicated high school students in the tri-state area (NY, NJ, and CT). Members have the opportunity to enhance their musical education with the finest professional training and performance opportunities. The J...

Tatiana Eva-Marie, recently acclaimed as a "rising jazz vocalist" by Vanity Fair and "one of the best  young singers around" by the Wall Street Journal, leads the Avalon Jazz Band—worldwide ambassadors of Parisian-style hot and Gypsy jazz reminiscent of Django & Grappelli's H...

“Her natural sound is almost operatic in its richness, but pure jazz in its improvisational sassiness.” – Wall Street Journal "A revelation… I never thought I'd hear a singer with the range, musicality and command of tone and timbre that was Sarah [Vaughan] at her best, but now I have."...

The Music of Modern Southerners: Christopher Crenshaw and Victor Goines Chris Crenshaw and Victor Goines, guest conductors

A singular icon graces The Appel Room in this special Life of a Legend performance. Dancer, actor, and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade has a unique gift for movement, and her groundbreaking performances have inspired artists and audiences for generations. Tonight we celebrate de Lavallade's love o...

Jazz veterans, colleagues, and kindred spirits Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson, George Cables, Cecil McBee, Billy Hart, and David Weiss forge a world-class union. Taking their group name from a 1965 Freddie Hubbard album, The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, this exciting all-star sextet...

For one night only, witness the live New York debut of Wadada Leo Smith's America’s National Parks. When Smith recorded this visionary suite in 2016, it was voted Album of the Year by DownBeat magazine (Smith also won Artist of the Year and Trumpeter of the Year), and it was selected as a top-ten al...

World-renowned Russian trumpeter Valery Ponomarev leads Our Father Who Art Blakey, a big band tribute to his own former bandleader, Art Blakey. Blakey was best known for his ability to find and hone the sharpest young talent in jazz, from Lee Morgan to Wynton Marsalis, and Ponomarev, who held the tr...

Ballads, Blues, and Shouts: American Folk Music Doug Wamble, guest coach

Pianist and composer Andy Milne is known for his boundless versatility across genres and artistic mediums. He has led a series of highly distinctive groups and worked with artists including Fred Hersch, Ravi Coltrane, Dianne Reeves, Bruce Cockburn, and Steve Coleman. With his latest group, Unity, Mi...

Grammy Award–winning drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr. revamps an extraordinary show originally premiered to sold-out audiences in The Appel Room. Initially developed by Jazz at Lincoln Center, Songs of Freedom has since become a critically acclaimed album and nationally touring project. The powerful progr...

When Megan Mullally and Stephanie Hunt first met, the Earth inhaled sharply. Reality expanded and shuddered with delight. The local tree frogs stoppered their raucous ditty and have nary been heard from since. That blessed day saw the voluptuous becoming of self-described “punk-showbiz” band Nancy A...

Atrium 360°   Part of a growing group of post-colonial Cape Verdean artists reclaiming traditional musical styles, Tcheka is building a distinctly 21st-century catalog of songs influenced by batuku and other indigenous genres, Brazilian music, Afropop, jazz, blues, and rock. With expressive v...

2018 NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves sets the mood for Valentine's Day weekend, continuing a beloved Jazz at Lincoln Center tradition (now in its eighth year!). With her powerful voice, bold dramatic flair, and masterful control of dynamics, Reeves is a gifted and often hypnotizing storyteller—perfect...

¡VAYA! 63   Emerging from the excitement and turbulence of 1960s New York City, the New Swing Sextet has been a popular and innovative exponent of Latin jazz, salsa, and pop music for over five decades. After professionally debuting at the last New York World's Fair, the band went on to have a ...

Singer and songwriter Vuyo Sotashe is becoming an integral part of New York City's jazz scene. After moving here in 2013, the young South African artist has quickly made his mark, earning a Fulbright Scholarship and finalist positions in several international competitions, while also collaborating w...

Piano Master: The Oscar Peterson Story is a star-studded tribute to the master pianist and composer. Six extraordinary pianists with deep connections to the legend will perform a collection of Oscar Peterson compositions—some of which have never before been heard—and a few new originals written in h...

New Music From the Millennials Andy Farber, guest conductor

What becomes of an artist when his avenue of expression is violently eliminated?” Experience the world premiere of The Big Blind, a radio-style musical drama written by Kurt Elling and Phil Galdston, in which a young jazz singer faces the ultimate test. This unique passion project has been years in ...

Trombonist Art Baron, an alumnus of the Duke Ellington Orchestra (under the baton of Mr. Ellington himself!), presents an afternoon of popular jazz. Using his unique experience, Art presents a program of Ellington delights, both well-known and rare. He also presents other notable entries from the Gr...

Having mastered the bel canto repertoire, American opera star Joyce DiDonato is not one to rest on her laurels. For her latest musical adventure, the two-time Grammy Award winner has joined extraordinary musicians from the worlds of jazz and tango to create Songplay, an exploration of the universal ...

The world's longest-running jazz festival comes to The Appel Room—a venue with state-of-the-art sound, an unbeatable view, and a capacity almost 100 times smaller than what the Monterey Jazz Festival draws in California. This intimate performance kicks off the Monterey Jazz Festival’s 60th Anniversa...

Our Jazz for Young People series continues with an hour-long narrated concert that will teach you all about Miles Davis. With an engaging script, live musical performances, and crowd participation, your family will be excited to learn about Davis' trials and triumphs and hear examples of what made h...

What We Hear Dave Douglas, guest coach

Atrium 360°   Experience traditional Iraqi maqam with Hamid Al-Saadi, one of the genre's greatest living masters. Al-Saadi, committed to sharing the arts and culture of the Arab world, travels extensively as a maqam scholar, singer, artist, and writer. Joining him is Safaafir, the only U.S.-b...

Miles Davis' “electric period” (1969—1992) is one of the most influential and passionately debated eras in all of modern music. In this exclusive new program, one of Davis’ crucial collaborators—bassist Marcus Miller—will take audiences through an eclectic body of work, starting with the moment Davi...

Atrium 360°   Hailed as “a cunning interpreter and arranger” by NPR, Haitian-American folk singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla is equally at ease with English, French, and Haitian Creole. Deeply influenced by traditional Creole, Cajun, and Haitian music, as well as by American jazz and folk, her ...

Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk Wynton Marsalis, conductor

Pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Charles McPherson are both true living legends, each of them 80 years old, and they're here to prove that jazz keeps you young. Tonight they join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis to play brand-new big band arrangements of their iconic comp...

MASS IN BLUE: THE MUSIC OF WILL TODD Sunday, April 7, 2019 at 2:00 PM                 David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center   DCINY presents an evening of music by English composer Will Todd led by Maestros James Meaders (DCINY Conductor) and Alicia Walker (DCINY Guest Conductor), respective...

Michael Feinstein's Jazz & Popular Song series kicks off with a celebration of the original “Boy from Oz,” Australian song-and-dance man Peter Allen, whose hit songs were the soundtrack of a generation. Under the direction of Executive Producer Liza Minnelli, who was married to Allen from 1967–1...

It doesn't get much better than pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, a jazz-inflected dream that is one of the most beloved pieces in the repertoire and the heart of this all-French program. Maestro Edward Gardner, praised for his "powerful, impassioned conductin...

Iconic documentarian Ken Burns and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis explore the shared roots found throughout American music. With never-before-seen clips from Burns' upcoming Country Music series, audiences will learn the fascinating and often intertwined histories of songs...

Wynton Marsalis, bassist Rodney Whitaker, trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and saxophonist Dan Block lead an all-Ellington showcase with a group of young rising jazz stars. The band includes 16 of the best young professionals on the scene, many of whom came up through our Essentially Ellington High Schoo...

The Jazz & Popular Song series continues its ninth consecutive season with a celebration of great American crooners. Michael Feinstein, known as the “Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” returns as director, host, performer, and all-around entertainer in this favorite concert series. With...

Joey DeFrancesco—arguably the greatest jazz organist alive—joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for the first time. With two 61-note keyboards, a 25-note bass pedal board controlled by foot, and multiple custom drawbars, the Hammond organ is practically a full band by itself. This expansive in...

“He made us believe in the music,” says Wynton Marsalis. Jazz raconteur Danny Barker was born in New Orleans in 1909, but he spent most of his career here in New York, playing with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, and countless others. When he finally returned home...

Michael Feinstein presents a tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, a duo “virtually synonymous with the blockbuster Broadway musical.” (PBS) With smash hits such as My Fair Lady, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon, and Gigi, Lerner and Loewe defined a glamorous era of Broadway and Hollywood musical...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis closes the season with a new collaboration bridging visual art and jazz composition. In partnership with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, JLCO members have spent the past year exploring centuries' worth of Amer...