Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center in New York City.

The organization was founded in 1987 and opened at the then-Time Warner Center (now the Deutsche Bank Center) in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

The center hosts performances by the orchestra and by visiting musicians. It is home to the New York City Opera. Many concerts are streamed live on the center's YouTube channel. The center also presents educational programs in its home buildings, online, and in schools throughout the country.

History
In 1987, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was involved in starting the Classical Jazz concert series, the first series of jazz concerts at Lincoln Center.

In 1996, the Jazz at Lincoln Center organization became a constituent of Lincoln Center next to organizations such as the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera. The budget for Jazz at Lincoln Center was $4 million in 1996, compared to $150 million for the Metropolitan Opera. In 2016, its budget was over $50 million. Wynton Marsalis has been artistic director since 1987. Greg Scholl became executive director in 2012.

Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, which performs in the Appel Room and the Rose Theater in addition to extensive international tours. Concerts are also broadcast live online. Educational programs are broadcast on the center's YouTube channel. Since 2015, the orchestra's albums have been issued on its own label, Blue Engine Records.

The center distributes jazz curriculums to high schools through its Essentially Ellington program. Professional musicians visit schools through the Let Freedom Swing program. The center runs a Middle School Jazz Academy, a High School Jazz Academy, and a Summer Academy, all in New York City, all of them with free tuition. Every year the orchestra tours and visits schools throughout the U.S. The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival takes place every year at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Rose Hall


The performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, was designed by Rafael Viñoly and is located on the fifth floor of Deutsche Bank Center (originally Time Warner Center). Rose Hall consists of three venues: Rose Theater, The Appel Room, and Dizzy's Club, named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The Hall also contains the Irene Diamond Education Center with rehearsal and recording rooms.

Hall of Fame
The Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame is named for Nesuhi Ertegun, co-founder of Atlantic Records. 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 have included:

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 (1890–1941), 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), pianist
 * 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 (b. 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

2008
 * Ornette Coleman (1930–2015), free jazz pioneer
 * Gil Evans (1912–1988), jazz arranger
 * Bessie Smith (1894–1937), blues singer
 * Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981), pianist, arranger

2010
 * Bill Evans (1929–1980), pianist, composer
 * Bud Powell (1924–1966), pianist
 * Billy Strayhorn (1915–1967), composer, pianist, lyricist, arranger
 * Sarah Vaughan (1924–1990), vocalist

2013
 * Art Blakey (1919–1990), drummer, bandleader
 * Lionel Hampton (1908–2002), vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader
 * Clark Terry (1920–2015), flugelhornist, trumpeter

2014
 * Betty Carter (1929–1998), vocalist
 * Fletcher Henderson (1897–1952), pianist, bandleader, arranger, composer
 * Elvin Jones (1927–2004), drummer
 * Wes Montgomery (1923–1968), guitarist

2015
 * Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), saxophonist, composer, bandleader
 * James P. Johnson (1894–1955), pianist, composer
 * Lennie Tristano (1919–1978), pianist, composer, arranger

2016
 * J. J. Johnson (1924–2001), trombonist, composer, arranger
 * Wayne Shorter (1933–2023), saxophonist, composer, bandleader
 * Ben Webster (1909–1973), saxophonist

2017
 * Tito Puente (1923–2000), songwriter, bandleader, percussionist, producer
 * Don Redman (1900–1964), clarinetist, saxophonist, arranger, bandleader, composer
 * McCoy Tyner (1938–2020), pianist, composer

2018
 * Jimmy Blanton (1918–1942), double bassist
 * Nat King Cole (1919–1965), singer, pianist
 * Nina Simone (1933–2003), singer, songwriter, pianist

2019
 * Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1928–1975), saxophonist
 * Frankie Trumbauer (1901–1956), saxophonist
 * Dinah Washington (1924–1963), singer, pianist
 * Chick Webb (1905–1939), drummer, band leader

2020
 * Freddie Green (1911–1987), guitarist
 * Lee Konitz (1927–2020), saxophonist, composer
 * John Lewis (1920–2001), pianist, composer, arranger
 * Teddy Wilson (1912–1986), pianist

2022
 * Freddie Hubbard (1938–2008), trumpeter
 * Paul Chambers (1935–1969), double bassist

2023
 * Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994), composer, pianist, guitarist, arranger, singer
 * Hugh Masekela (1939–2018), trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer, composer
 * Mario Bauzá (1911–1993), composer, arranger, clarinetist, saxophonist, trumpeter
 * Toshiko Akiyoshi (b. 1929), pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader