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.
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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.[1]
- 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 serves as the organization's resident orchestra. Jazz at Lincoln Center also hosts the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival each year. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tours the world every year with their next tour titled "Ellington Love Songs" set for January 2008. For a complete tour list check out: http://www.jalc.org/concerts/jazztour.asp
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.[2]
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
- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival
- Jazz at Lincoln Center website
- Jazz at Lincoln Center press page
- Jazz From Lincoln Center radio series
- Wynton Marsalis
- 2007 Nesuhi Ertegun Hall of Fame Inductees