Jazz at Lincoln Center
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Jazz at Lincoln Center is a constituent company of the Lincoln Center performing arts organization, 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 Vinoly.
[edit] Performance venues
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.
Resident artists include Wynton Marsalis (Artistic Director for Jazz at Lincoln Center) and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis tours the country as well recently appearing in Nashville at the new Schermerhorn Symphony Hall.
[edit] External links
- Jazz at Lincoln Center website
- Jazz From Lincoln Center radio series
- Wynton Marsalis
- Arturo O'Farrill interview on LatinJazzClub.com
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://ellen.warnerbros.com/showinfo/about.html Ellen in NYC
