Jazz at Lincoln Center

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Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., whose performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly adjacent to Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall is housed inside of the Time Warner Center. The complex opened in October 2004. The complex was designed by acclaimed Uruguayan-American architect, Rafael Viñoly and constructed by Turner Construction Company.

Overview

Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall consists of three main music performance venues:

Rose Theater, with 1,233 seats.
The Allen Room, with 483 seats, featuring a 50 by 90-foot window overlooking Central Park. This room is also used by Ellen DeGeneres during her Thanksgiving week show in New York City.
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, with 140 seats, an intimate jazz club named after the famous jazz artist Dizzy Gillespie.

The complex also contains the Irene Diamond Education Center with rehearsal and recording rooms and the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, a multimedia installation featuring an 18-foot video wall, interactive computer kiosks and touch-activated virtual plaques. Visitors can celebrate the lives, artistry and music of the jazz greats so integral to the art form and industry.

Wynton Marsalis serves as the Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center while the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) serves as the organization's resident orchestra. The JLCO tours the world every year with their next tour titled "Ellington Love Songs" set for Winter 2008

Jazz at Lincoln Center's educational mission encompasses core programs that reach upwards of 50,000 people directly and an estimated four million people through curricula, print music and online resources. Beginning at just eight months old, little ones can swing, stomp and shuffle with "WeBop!". Families and school groups delight in the "Jazz for Young People concert series" and "Jazz in the Schools" tours that bring professional ensembles across NYC. Teachers across the country bring these concerts back to their classrooms with the "Jazz for Young People Curriculum" (which is also available online) and make connections between jazz and American history with "NEA Jazz in the Schools".

Jazz at Lincoln Center's educational programs nurture young instrumentalists through the Middle School Jazz Academy, a tuition-free instructional program for NYC students. And for the past 13 years, "Essentially Ellington" has supported high school jazz bands nationwide by encouraging the study and performance of Duke Ellington’s music. The summer "Band Director Academy", customized teacher training workshops and print music library (including the Jazz for Young People series, Essentially Ellington Library and Essential Jazz Editions series) further sustain music programs worldwide.

At Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, adult learners develop their listening skills and delve into jazz history at "Swing University", "Jazz Talk" and the "Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame".

Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame

On September 30, 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated the dedication of the Nesuhi Ertegun Hall of Fame. The hall is named for the late Nesuhi Ertegun, one of the founders of Atlantic Records, which released records by Coltrane and Mingus, among other important jazz figures. A 60-person international voting panel, which includes musicians, scholars and educators from 17 countries, is charged to nominate and select the most definitive artists in the history of jazz for induction into the Hall of Fame.

Inductees

2004

Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), trumpeter
Sidney Bechet (1897–1959), saxophonist
Bix Beiderbecke (1903–1931), cornetist
John Coltrane (1926–1967), saxophonist
Miles Davis (1926–1991), trumpeter
Duke Ellington (1899–1974), pianist
Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), trumpeter
Coleman Hawkins (1904–1969), saxophonist
Billie Holiday (1915–1959), vocalist
Thelonious Monk (1917–1982), pianist
Jelly Roll Morton (1884?–1941), pianist
Charlie Parker (1920–1955), saxophonist
Art Tatum (1909–1956), pianist
Lester Young (1909–1959), saxophonist

2005

Count Basie (1904–1984), pianist, organist
Roy Eldridge (1911–1989), trumpeter
Ella Fitzgerald (1917–1996), vocalist
Benny Goodman (1909–1986), clarinetist
Earl Hines (1903–1983), pianists
Johnny Hodges (1907–1970), saxophonist
"Papa" Jo Jones (1911–1985), drummer
Charles Mingus (1922–1979), bassist
Joe "King" Oliver (1885–1938), cornetist
Max Roach (1924–2007), drummer
Sonny Rollins (1930– ), saxophonist
Fats Waller (1904–1943), pianist, organist

2007

Clifford Brown (1930–1956), trumpeter
Benny Carter (1907–2003), saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter
Charlie Christian (1916–1942), guitarist
Django Reinhardt (1910–1953), guitarist

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