Christian McBride is a Grammy Award–winning master musician and easily one of the most accomplished bassists alive. The Christian McBride Big Band, featuring a staggering and diverse lineup of top musicians, is the perfect vehicle for McBride to simultaneously show off his compositional talents and ...

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra (SNJO) is one of Europe's foremost contemporary big bands. Founder and director Tommy Smith established the SNJO in 1995 as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting jazz as a pre-eminent art form through performances, original compositions, recordings...

Master musician Christian McBride is in a league of his own as a bandleader, as a bassist, and as a uniquely engaging concert host who makes everyone in the room feel like an old friend. Tonight's performance will be the Dizzy’s Club premiere of his new Tip City trio, featuring Dan Wilson on guitar ...

Widely recognized for touring with the iconic Freddy Cole, guitarist Randy Napoleon also successfully leads multiple groups of his own. He has performed and recorded with greats all across the jazz spectrum, and tonight he pays tributes to the Midwest jazz guitar masters: Grant Green, Wes Montgomery...

Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Vince Giordano and his Nighthawks have been attracting flocks of swing lovers to their weekly club dates for years, but their music has also been featured recently in hit shows The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Boardwalk Empire. Veterans of the very fi...

L' Ouverture is a collective of musicians with a familial, social, or artistic connection to Haïti, celebrating its rich music and culture along with that of the African Diaspora. Curated by bassist Jonathan Michel, L' Ouverture's name refers to both the leader of the Haïtian Revolution, Toussaint L...

For the first time in 12 years, Montréal's multi award–winning François Bourassa Quartet returns to Dizzy’s Club. Bourassa’s quartet has been a staple of Canada’s thriving music scene since the mid-1980s, and the group has recorded nine acclaimed albums and toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia...

¿Que Vola?, or “What's Up?” in the argot of La Havana, is a unique musical project that brings together seven of France’s best young jazzmen with a trio of highly skilled Cuban percussionists. The brainchild of trombonist Fidel Fourneyron, ¿Que Vola? takes the magnetic power of sacred Afro-Cuban rhy...

Tonight we welcome modern trumpet icon and former Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra member Sean Jones back to Dizzy's Club! In the unique program called Dizzy Spellz, the music and life story of Dizzy Gillespie are used as a lens to explore an intersection of cultural and spiritual dilemmas within th...

Led by esteemed bassist Rodney Whitaker, tonight's program will feature additional members of the all-star Band Director Academy Training faculty. When these artists aren’t busy touring or performing in Rose Theater with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, they regularly lead and sell out concerts...

Ernesto Holman, one of Chile's most renowned bass players and a member of the indigenous Mapuche community, has been an integral part of the rock scene for the past 40 years. A dedicated ambassador of the bass, Holman has changed the musical landscape by elevating the instrument beyond the rhythm se...

Young jazz vocalist and bandleader Charles Turner III—winner of the first-annual Duke Ellington Center for the Arts vocal competition, among other accolades—has quickly made his mark in the New York City jazz scene, playing regularly at Jazz at Lincoln Center's late-night dance sessions, Ginny’s Sup...

The award-winning Allan Harris is a Brooklyn-born, Harlem-raised vocalist, guitarist, and composer with a powerful baritone voice and a huge stylistic range. In his return to Dizzy's Club, he will pay tribute to two geniuses of jazz vocals: vocalese pioneer Eddie Jefferson and crooner Nat “King” Col...

Led by saxophonist, composer, and conductor Eyal Vilner, this 16-piece, multigenerational ensemble has been called “an exciting new sound in the finest tradition of contemporary big band music” (All About Jazz). As a group these international players have collaborated with jazz legends such as Jimmy...

Emoción is a vibrant, multinational quintet comprised of virtuoso musicians from Lebanon, Peru, Venezuela, Belgium, and Germany. Originally united by their shared passion for the sounds and rhythms of Tango Nuevo, this ensemble celebrates the universal power of music, and their diverse origins refle...

“‘Where have you been and why am I just hearing about you?' was my thought when I first heard her sing… she’s not only a voice, but a composer as well, [and] with something to say.’” — Terence Blanchard   Winner of the 2017 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, Quiana Lynell comb...

With deep roots in folk, rock, and pop, Maria Muldaur has been touring worldwide for more than 50 years. These days she's digging into the catalogue of New Orleans jazz and blues singer Blue Lu Barker, whose 1930s and ‘40s hits include “Don’t You Feel My Leg” and “Look What Baby’s Got for You.” Ther...

“His progressive, assured, and imaginative improvisations roll out in a glorious sun-splashed tone… he seems to dance through his solos, balancing his quick clockwork technique with bursts of bluesy soul.” – Chicago Reader   Dr. Eddie Henderson received his first informal trumpet lesson at age...

Swing is the thing at our season finale. The Harlem Renaissance Orchestra keeps the spirit of jazz legend Illinois Jacquet alive with classic big-band tunes and blazing uptown energy. Always one of the best parties of the season, the night reaches its glorious peak when New York's best dancers compe...

In his Dizzy's Club headlining premiere, vocalist and flutist Jeremy Bosch will perform the music of salsa and bolero pioneer Cheo Feliciano. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Bosch attended Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship at age 17, and he has since performed all over the world as a ba...

Saxophonist, clarinetist, vocalist, and composer Evan Arntzen has been dreaming about making an album with trumpet great Jon-Erik Kellso for years. It's finally happening! Through straight-ahead, swing, blues, and New Orleans-style jazz, Jazz Crush highlights the relationship between the clarinet/sa...

The votes are in, and now it's time to celebrate the 2019 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame inductees! This year’s festivities kick off with the Evan Sherman Big Band paying tribute to the great Chick Webb. Over the past several years, the Evan Sherman Big Band has led some of Dizzy’s Club’s most energetic ...

The votes are in, and now it's time to celebrate the 2019 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame inductees! This year’s festivities continue with the Evan Sherman Big Band and special guest vocalist Joy Brown in a tribute to the great Dinah Washington. A formidable vocal master who even enjoyed crossover success...

The votes are in, and now it's time to celebrate the 2019 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame inductees! Night two of this year’s festivities kicks off with Ken Peplowski paying tribute to the great Frank Trumbauer. Ken Peplowski is a clarinetist and saxophonist cherished for keeping the fire bright in tradit...

The votes are in, and now it's time to celebrate the 2019 Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame inductees! Our two nights of induction festivities conclude with this final set, as alto saxophonist Bruce Williams pays tribute to the inimitable Cannonball Adderley. Williams is a gifted musician who has toured and...

With five critically acclaimed albums under his belt, the singer-songwriter BélO has been hailed as Haiti's musical ambassador to the world. BélO is a visionary practitioner of ragganga—a sublime mixture of jazz, worldbeat, rock, reggae, and Afro-Haitian traditional rhythms. Come experience a master...

“He's the best ever, including me!” – Dizzy Gillespie   Legendary trumpeter Jon Faddis, protégé of the great Dizzy Gillespie, returns to Dizzy’s Club to great demand. Known for an extraordinary and virtually unparalleled range, Faddis has complete mastery over the trumpet. He evokes the voices...

Ellis Haizlip was the visionary creator of the public television show SOUL!, a variety-talk show featuring African American artistry, community, and culture that was also a platform for political expression and the fight for social justice. In 1972, Haizlip, together with Lincoln Center, coproduced ...

Cry to the world/That all might understand:/I was once a black clown/But now—/I'm a man! Fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals, The Black Clown brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning new music-theater piece. Powerful and prescient, the experience of a Black m...

Named for the patron saint of music, effervescent Latin fusion band La Santa Cecilia is fronted by the charismatic Marisol Hernandez (a.k.a. La Marisoul), who “sings like the love child of Janis Joplin and Celia Cruz” (Los Angeles Times). She's joined by accordionist and requintero José “Pepe” Carlo...

Free and open to the public! Named for the patron saint of music, effervescent Latin fusion band La Santa Cecilia is fronted by the charismatic Marisol Hernandez (a.k.a. La Marisoul), who “sings like the love child of Janis Joplin and Celia Cruz” (Los Angeles Times). She's joined by accordionist ...

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and his introspective lyrics have come to represent the simple truths of American life in all its soulful, insecure glory. A prolific songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Tweedy has enjoyed a storied career that earned him a Grammy for Wilco's A Ghost Is Born. The poetic r...

San Antonio comes to Out of Doors at this evening of Chicano soul. The brainchild of writer-producer-musician Adrian Quesada, Look at My Soul celebrates the musical contributions of Chicano soul singers and session musicians in the 1950s and ‘60s, including Tejano trailblazers Johnny Hernandez and R...

Turning the Tables—the ongoing partnership between NPR Music and Lincoln Center that seeks to reframe the popular music canon to honor unacknowledged voices—returns to Out of Doors for a third season. This year, we explore the work of female artists who originated and shaped recorded music from its ...

Blending together elements of R&B, funk, and ‘80s pop, Blood Orange is the most recent project of British producer and singer Dev Hynes. With a distinctive sound that ranges from upbeat funk and electronica to languid jazz, paired with spoken-word poetry and vocal sampling, he earned the record ...

Liza Minnelli fans young and old are invited to gather under the stars in Damrosch Park for a rare screening of the Emmy- and Peabody Award–winning Liza with a “Z”. Capturing a one-woman, one-night-only production Minnelli gave at the Lyceum Theater in 1972, and along with it a momentous time in cul...

Bring the kids and get into the Out of Doors spirit during our annual day dedicated to dancing, singing, and fun around the fountain.   11:00 am Brown Rice Family  A fresh world roots band jamming towards global solidarity, Brown Rice Family provides the masses with distinctively organic glob...

Inspired by Bach's Two-Part Inventions, violinist Tessa Lark, a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and intrepid bassist Michael Thurber have created their own set of duos, drawing upon their roots in classical music, Appalachian fiddling, jazz, and R&B. This lively, hourlong concert showc...

Inspired by Bach's Two-Part Inventions, violinist Tessa Lark, a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and intrepid bassist Michael Thurber have created their own set of duos, drawing upon their roots in classical music, Appalachian fiddling, jazz, and R&B. This lively, hourlong concert showc...

Fresh off a world tour, Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Patty Griffin graces the Americanafest stage. The quintessential Americana artist lends her seasoned wisdom to a new eponymous LP—whose lead track “River” was inspired by Leon Russell's “A Song for You,” made famous by R&B singer Don...

Grammy-nominated blues musician and songwriter Cedric Burnside—a descendant of blues royalty—continues the rich tradition of Mississippi Hill Country, imbuing the genre with modern-day sensibilities and a biting timeless flavor. Burnside has both played and recorded with North Mississippi Allstars, ...

On the heels of his debut album as a frontman, Aaron Whitby showcases his jazz and funk roots with his “groove-heavy powerhouse of a band" (Time Out New York).

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis kicks off Opening Weekend in Rose Theater with a musical celebration of South African democracy, 25 years after apartheid's end. Top South African musicians will join the orchestra to perform essential South African music, with each song chos...

The Ogresse is a new musical journey created by vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant. With its dark and romantic “fairytale-like” story, The 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, th...

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 ...

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...

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...

The African American experience takes center stage in The Abyssinian Mass, a swinging celebration for big band and gospel choir from Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, bandleader, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Created to mark the bicentennial of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2013,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“The sound of it, the colors of it, the energy of it—this is us as a people. One people. This is our way of celebrating freedom, celebrating life, death, family, celebrating our history, culture, food, music—it's all in one word, and that’s ‘Carnival.’” - Etienne Charles   Trinidad & Tobag...

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...