Juilliard Jazz's Mary Lou Williams and Max Roach Ensembles present American folk, country, and church music in Paul Hall. Read the press release.

Join one of our expert guides for an unparalleled insider's experience at the world’s leading performing arts center!   There's no place like Lincoln Center—home to 11 of the world’s most prestigious cultural organizations, including the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Metropolita...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents music by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra from 1966 to 1978 at Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Read the press release.

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Give your Thursday night a new rhythm as you head to the train or wait for a colleague to join you for dinner. Jazz at Lincoln Center brings New York City's hottest young jazz bands to the plaza, creating the feeling of an intimate club amidst the lights and sounds of Times Square.

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Explore the newest music in today's jazz scene at the renowned Polish jazz festival, Jazztopad Festival. Tonight’s performance will feature an original work by Amir ElSaffar, an Atrium alum and classically trained trumpet player who developed his artistic language by combining jazz with the aestheti...

Ogresse is a new musical journey created by vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant. With its dark and romantic “fairytale-like” story, Ogresse is a delightfully audacious addition to Salvant's increasingly eclectic body of work. A generational talent adored by critics and all types of audiences, the young ...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Juilliard Jazz's Duke Ellington Ensemble perform music inspired by drummer Art Blakey in Paul Hall. 

A fresh world roots band jamming towards global solidarity, Brown Rice Family provides the masses with distinctively organic global music, which encompasses reggae, hip-hop, dancehall, Afrobeat, jazz stylings, rock, Brazilian, Latin, and funk. Always growing, the band now comprises eight members hai...

Our Family Concerts are always a good time, and this fun afternoon show will entertain and inspire you—whether you're already a jazz lover, or perhaps simply wondering, “Who is Chick Corea?”   Pianist, composer, and living legend Chick Corea has found endless delight in uncovering new musical ...

Havana-born artist Melvis Santa made a splash on the Cuban musical scene at 14, when she founded the collective Sexto Sentido—a project that jazz great Chucho Valdés deemed “the best Cuban vocal quartet of the past 30 years.” The multitalented singer, composer, pianist, Afro-Cuban dancer, actress, a...

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents the music of Vincent Gardner, Carlos Henriquez, Sherman Irby, Elliot Mason, and Marcus Printup at Peter Jay Sharp Theater. 

On top of being one of the world's best saxophonists, tenor titan Joe Lovano is also one of the most restlessly creative leaders in music. Nearly all of his projects bring together never-before-heard combinations of creative powerhouses. His latest group features six artists from across the entire s...

Our Latin dance party series continues with a night of classic salsa hits and arrangements of big-band favorites. Dedicated to keeping his father's musical legacy alive, Tito Rodríguez, Jr.—also a timbalero—assembles an all-star lineup that infuses Tito Sr.’s original mambo beat with a contemporary ...

Trained as an opera singer before turning to jazz, Brooklyn-based artist Melanie Charles has been making waves with her voice and versatility. Deemed “one of the most dynamic vocal pipes ever witnessed” by KariJazz, Charles can channel Nina Simone and Nancy Wilson as well her Haitian roots in one ro...

Sesame Street comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center for a swinging celebration of the show's 50th anniversary. See some of your favorite feathered and furry friends like Big Bird and Elmo sing classic Sesame Street songs alongside the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. ...

What To Expect Muppets of Sesame Street performing alongside the JLCO with Wynton Marsalis New big band arrangements of beloved Sesame Street songs Tons of fun for all ages   Sesame Street comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center for a swinging celebration of the show's 50th anniversary. See s...

Juilliard Jazz's Dave Brubeck and Mary Lou Williams Ensembles present music by Nazareth, Pixinguinha, Joplin, and Morton in Paul Hall. 

Tonight we celebrate 50 years of the monumentally influential ECM Records, rightfully called “one of the defining sound-worlds of the past half-century of recorded music” by the New Yorker.   The show includes an outstanding lineup of performers, including Meredith Monk, Joe Lovano, Craig Tabo...

Pianists Chucho Valdés and Chick Corea are two of the all-time greats, living legends who are as musically virile now as ever. They have won more than 30 Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards combined, while redefining different corners of modern music in the process. Tonight, they play together for the fi...

Juilliard Jazz's Dizzy Gillespie and Jelly Roll Morton Ensembles present music by Nina Simone, Bob Dorough, Abby Lincoln, and Oscar Brown Jr. with Juilliard Jazz vocalists in Paul Hall. 

The African American experience takes center stage in The Abyssinian Mass, a swinging celebration of big-band sound and gospel soul from Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, bandleader, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Created to mark the bicentennial of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2...

A star in Cuba since his teen years, pianist Dayramir Gonzalez is now a New York resident with an international following, representing the young generation of Afro-Cuban jazz. Since winning Havana's JoJazz Festival in 2004 and 2005, Gonzalez has gone from winning three Cubadisco Awards for his 2007...

Jazz at Lincoln Center presents world-renowned clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski in a new exploration inspired by the small group music of Benny Goodman. While Goodman is well known for leading one of the most swinging orchestras of the big band era, his small group recordings featured creat...

Led by dancer-musician Leonardo Sandoval and bassist-composer Gregory Richardson, Music from the Sole seamlessly melds a tap performance with a big-band concert. The show reflects choreographic and musical influences from Sandoval's native Brazil, and Richardson's talent combining funk, house, jazz,...

Celebrate the holidays at Lincoln Center by joining us at our LC Kids holiday themed brunch taking place at the Empire Rooftop Lounge at 11:30am prior to this performance. This party will have food, fun, and festive treats for the whole family!   Led by dancer-musician Leonardo Sandoval and ba...

Juilliard Drama presents Paradise Blue written by Dominique Morisseau and directed by Brandon Dirden. The second play of 2018 MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” Fellow Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Project trilogy, Paradise Blue finds jazz joint owner and musician Blue at a crossroads between the f...

The Grammy Award–winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra takes the sonic power and stylistic versatility of a big band, adds a New Orleans emphasis on groove and accessibility, and applies it to an unusually expansive repertoire of originals, jazz staples, New Orleans classics, and pop, rock, R&B, an...

Renowned blues-rock guitarist, multi-platinum-selling singer/songwriter, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Miller continues his exploration of the blues at Jazz at Lincoln Center.   Having learned his first chords at age five from his godfather Les Paul, how to play lead guitar fro...

It's the most wonderful time of year in the House of Swing! The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and music director Marcus Printup continue a beloved New York tradition with Big Band Holidays. Featuring soulful, big band versions of classics like “Jingle Bells,” “Joy to the Worl...

Tonight the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will revisit two of its most acclaimed originals: Victor Goines' Untamed Elegance and Chris Crenshaw’s God’s Trombones. Each of these suites highlights the ensemble’s boundless creativity, commitment to artistic vision, and the peerle...

Mozart for Munchkins creates a relaxed, interactive and engaging environment where children and their families can experience and enjoy the wonders of classical music with a hint of jazz and bluegrass. Children of all ages are welcome to observe, explore, discover, crawl, sing and dance to their hea...

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents the big band music of the 1930s and 40s, including Basie, Dorsey, Ellington, Goodman, Miller, and Shaw, at Peter Jay Sharp Theater. Read the press release.

Juilliard Jazz's Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington Ensembles present the music of Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Marquis Hill, and Kurt Rosenwinkel at Paul Hall. 

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra saxophonist Ted Nash is a visionary composer at the top of his game. Nash's most recent creation for the JLCO, The Presidential Suite, earned him Grammy Awards for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album and Best Instrumental Composition in 2017. Tonight’s concert is the worl...

NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves sets the mood for Valentine's Day weekend, continuing a popular tradition at Jazz at Lincoln Center (now in its ninth year!). A master vocalist and hypnotizing storyteller, Reeves has been hailed as “the most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fit...

There's just something about New Orleans drummers you don’t find anywhere else, and you’ll recognize that special feeling the moment you hear drummer extraordinaire Herlin Riley. One of the hardest-grooving, most infectiously energetic drummers alive, Riley breaks down every perceived line between a...

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Maimouna Youssef's lyrical prowess has taken her around the globe as a musician and social justice advocate. Known as Mumu Fresh, her performance blends gospel, jazz, soul, and hip-hop for an awe-inspiring musical experience.

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents the big band music of Chick Corea live in concert at Peter Jay Sharp Theater. 

The multi-Grammy Award–winning Branford Marsalis Quartet is a standard-bearer of modern instrumental jazz. In a concert season loaded with big ideas and premier collaborations, the story of tonight's show is simply one of jazz’s longest-running bands playing extraordinary music like no one else. ...

Jazzmeia Horn thinks everyone deserves to “express themselves fully, without fear or reservation”—and she's here to lead by example. Horn has confidently taken the jazz world by storm since winning the 2015 International Thelonious Monk Vocal Competition, and she is truly coming into her own on the ...

Our Family Concerts are always a good time, and this fun afternoon show with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will entertain and inspire your family—whether you're already jazz lovers, or perhaps simply wondering, “Who is Dave Brubeck?”   This hour-long program will celebrate the tunes and...

“Ambrose Akinmusire may be the most distinctive, elusive, and ultimately satisfying trumpeter of his generation.” – The New York Times “Clearly something very special and personal is at work here, a vision of jazz that's bigger than camps, broader and more intellectually restless…” – The Los Ange...

Can a great composition be compared to the work of a great architect? The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis invites you to experience the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and George Russell from a new angle. With music direction by JLCO trombonist V...

Juilliard Jazz's Max Roach and Jelly Roll Morton Ensembles present student compositions in Paul Hall. 

The Juilliard Jazz Orchestra presents music by swing bands of the 1920s to '60s in Music of Young Composers and Bebop Legends at Alice Tully Hall. Read the press release.

Juilliard Jazz's Duke Ellington Ensemble presents music by Wynton Marsalis at Paul Hall. 

Two extraordinary vocalists—each of them already a popular Jazz at Lincoln Center headliner—share The Appel Room stage in this Singers Over Manhattan season finale. Audiences will enjoy one of the most famous views in the city while Mary Stallings and Freddy Cole sing their hearts out alongside pian...

In terms of pure musicality, George Gershwin was America's Schubert. He composed with a creativity and skill that immortalized his art, and hardly any of his works is more embedded in the world’s musical consciousness than Rhapsody in Blue, originally described by Gershwin as a “symphony” for piano ...

JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby leads a gravity-defying exploration of the universe with the world premiere of his new commission. After kicking off the suite with the Big Bang, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will travel through a series of distinctive movements, evoking awe...

The unique legacy of drummer and bandleader Art Blakey makes this tribute especially exciting—and even personal—for Wynton Marsalis and his handpicked group of young, up-and-coming jazz musicians.   In honor of Blakey's centennial, Marsalis and company will play the music of his iconic mentor....

Witness the world premiere of a new all-star trio assembled exclusively for this Jazz at Lincoln Center performance. The dream team comes in a classic organ trio format, with Joey DeFrancesco on the pedals and keys, tenor titan Chris Potter on saxophone, and Jeff “Tain” Watts holding it down on drum...

Hailed as “one of the world's most famous vocal chameleons” by the New York Times, Bobby McFerrin delivers one of the most transcendent experiences in live music. Truly a genre unto himself, the ten-time Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum-selling artist is a master of spontaneity, vocal ingenuit...

Trinidad & Tobago's world-famous Carnival celebration comes to The Appel Room courtesy of trumpeter, percussionist, and composer Etienne Charles. This high-energy spectacle seamlessly blends American jazz traditions with the thrilling sights and sounds of Trinidadian Carnival. It’s hard to belie...

Singer, entertainer, and “Ambassador of the Great American Songbook” Michael Feinstein celebrates ten years of his Jazz & Popular Song series with an all-star extravaganza. Capping off a historic run in The Appel Room, Feinstein now takes the show to Rose Theater for a grand reunion of the crème...