Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is an organization that, as part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, produces events and educational offers on jazz and its history and maintains its own 15-piece orchestra; at the same time it is also the venue.

history

In the 1980s, Lincoln Center was keen to attract new audiences. In 1987, a series of jazz concerts was held for the first time in the summer, presenting jazz as the classical music of the United States. After four years, Jazz at Lincoln Center was established in 1991 as a separate department of Lincoln Center. As early as 1992, the JALC had its own series on National Public Radio ; the orchestra was founded in the same year.

Overview

The JALC complex is now located in Manhattan south of the "Lincoln Center Campus" on Lincoln Square on the 15th to 17th floors of the Time Warner Center . The JALC has three large event halls: the "Rose Theater", with 1233 seats, the "Appel Room", with 483 seats and a 15 × 27 meter window with a view of Central Park and the "Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola", With 140 seats, an intimate jazz club named after the famous jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie .

The JALC complex also houses the “Irene Diamond Education Center” with rehearsal rooms and recording studios as well as the “ Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame (NEJHF)”. The JALC also operates the NEJHF website. Visitors to the “Jazz Hall of Fame” can find out more about the life, art and music of jazz musicians.

The artistic director of JALC is Wynton Marsalis ; Greg Scholl is the managing director and Jason Olaine is the organization’s program director. As a large-format repertoire band, JALC maintains the “Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra” (JLCO) with Wynton Marsalis as its conductor. The JALC organizes all kinds of events all year round, such as concerts, national and international tours by the orchestra, TV and radio programs and an annual high school jazz band competition. For example, there were around 3,000 events in total in the 2008/09 season. The educational offer comprises 22 different programs and is directly taken up by around 50,000 people.

Discographic notes

The Jazz Stage at Lincoln Center (2007)
Peter Jay Sharp Arcade

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra productions (selection)

(Blue Engine)

Productions of other musicians (selection)

Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame

Nesuhi Ertegün

The Jazz Hall of Fame is named after Nesuhi Ertegun , one of the founders of Atlantic Records . A selection committee of 60 people from music, research and teaching from 17 countries determines the artists who will be accepted into the “Hall of Fame”.

Jazz Hall of Fame artist

2004
2005
2007
2008
2010
2013
  • Art Blakey (1919–1990), drummer, band leader
  • Lionel Hampton (1908–2002), vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, band leader
  • Clark Terry (1920–2015), flugelhorn player, trumpeter
2014
2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b History. In: jazz.org. Retrieved December 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame. In: Jazz.org. Retrieved December 26, 2014 .