Jazz Academy

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09/15/2023

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the WeBop Family Jazz Party – A Latin Jazz Jam ¡Vamos a G***r! Dance and groove through the Latin legacy of NYC on Sep 23. For ages 8 months to 8 years.

More info & tickets: jazz.org/wfjp

09/26/2022

Introducing Jazz Live, the new way to stream the music of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The app gives you access to every new concert webcast, a rotating selection of archival performances, and content ranging from artist interviews to documentary series. And it's available on your desktop, your phone, your tablet, and your smart TV.

Subscribe today! jazzlive.com

09/16/2022

Webop is part of Lincoln Center's on Sept. 16–18! ☂️ The FREE festival features performances, installations, and workshops designed with and for audiences with autism and other developmental disabilities. Webop will be hosting two events on Saturday and two on Sunday.

For more information, visit LincolnCenter.org/BigUmbrella

08/23/2022

WeBop returns this fall with both in-person AND virtual offerings!

Explore core concepts of jazz such as swing, blues, improvisation, and other jazz basics with your little one while swinging nursery rhymes, singing the blues, jamming with a live jazz band, and more!

Sign up now to receive an early bird discount and save 15%: jazz.org/webop

08/09/2022

ON SALE NOW: Tickets for JALC’s 2022-23 global concert season! This season, enjoy performances by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Chucho Valdés, Paquito D'Rivera , Naseer Shamma, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Samara Joy, and more!

Get tickets at jazz.org

07/21/2022

We are thrilled to announce Virtual Band Director Academy will be taking place on Saturday, August 6, 2022! This day-long, virtual event will include classes on Jazz Language and Adapting Big Band Literature, a panel discussion on how to build a successful program at your school, special keynote speakers and more! For more information, email [email protected].

(Photo by Ayano Hisa for Jazz at Lincoln Center)

07/14/2022

Swing U's Virtual Summer Term is on sale now! Explore jazz destinations from New Orleans to London to Johannesburg to Tokyo and more with interactive classes taught by global musicians and educators.

The early bird sale is through July 31: http://jazz.org/swingu

05/04/2022

The 27th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival officially starts tomorrow!

Be sure to tune in to the livestream on Facebook or at jazz.org/ee!

Tickets and more information at jazz.org/ee.

(Photos by Ayano Hisa and Lawrence Sumulong)

04/22/2022

Swing University's Virtual Spring Term (May 2-July 19) is now on sale. Classes will explore a variety of topics including Nat "King" Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, Orchestral Jazz of the 1950s, and more.

Sign up today: jazz.org/swingu

04/21/2022

Congratulations to all of the university jazz programs who competed in the second annual Jack Rudin Jazz Championship!

On April 19–20, ten of the nation’s most well-regarded university jazz programs competed in JALC’s 2022 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship—a two-day invitational competition at the House of Swing. The bands were immersed in intensive rehearsals and workshops culminating in two rounds of competition and a final concert where, for the first time since March 2020, students performed live on the Rose Theater stage.

Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2022 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship Awards:

1st PLACE: MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC

2nd PLACE: TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

3rd PLACE: NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY

(Photo: Michigan State University College of Music, 2022 Jack Rudin Jazz Championship. Photo by Lawrence Sumulong)