[Dixielandjazz] Grand Opening Jazz Schedule at Lincoln Center

[Steve barbone]

Here is the opening jazz schedule at Lincoln Center. Note that ticket prices
range from $10 to $150 and some performances are already sold out. I guess
"jazz oblivious" audiences are willing to pay a reasonable price for the
music, after all. 

Perhaps a good reason for OKOMers to consider raising their prices?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone


Concerts that are part of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Grand Opening Festival
will run Monday, October 18 through Friday Nov. 5 in the new halls of Jazz
at Lincoln Center, on the fifth floor of the Time Warner Center, Broadway
and 60th Street, Manhattan: they are the Rose Theater, the Allen Room and
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. The opening night, on Monday, October 18, at 8, will
feature three simultaneous performances in the three spaces. Check your PBS
TV listings for broadcast times.

Attendance is by invitation only, but parts of each concert will be
broadcast live on PBS, as part of "Live From Lincoln Center," as well as on
National Public Radio (WBGO-FM, 88.3) and wbgo.org. Performing that evening
will be the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Tony
Bennett, Abbey Lincoln and others in the Rose Theater; the Afro-Latin Jazz
Orchestra with Paquito D'Rivera in the Allen Room; and the Bill Charlap
Trio, with Frank Wess, in Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola.

A gala on Wednesday night at 7 in the Rose Theater, featuring the Lincoln
Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and special guests, is sold out.
A Dizzy Gillespie Festival will run from Oct. 21 through Nov. 7 in Dizzy's
Club Coca-Cola, featuring the Bill Charlap Trio, Mr. D'Rivera and others;
unless otherwise noted, the club's cover is $30 with a $10 minimum at
tables, $5 at the bar. Some festival shows are sold out; returned tickets
may be available an hour before the performance. Unless otherwise noted,
tickets range from $10 to $150. Information: (212) 721-6500.

Here is the opening schedule of festival public events:

Thursday, Oct 21

"STAND UP FOR JAZZ," with Bill Cosby and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis; Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

DIZZY GILLESPIE FESTIVAL; SMALL BAND DIZZY, with the Bill Charlap Trio,
Charles McPherson and Nicholas Payton; Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, 7:30 and 9:30
p.m. Also Oct. 22-24, same times with additional 11 p.m. shows on Oct. 23
and 24.

Friday, Oct 22

CASSANDRA WILSON, Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

"SPEAKING OF JAZZ," with Amiri Baraka, John Sinclair, Gil Scott-Heron, Oscar
Brown Jr. and others; Allen Room, 7:30 p.m. Also Oct. 23, same time.

Saturday, Oct. 23

"DIANNE REEVES AND FREDDY COLE," Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 25

"THE DUKE AND THE COUNT," the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis; Allen Room, 7:30 p.m.

"THREE SHADES OF BLUES ‹ NIGHT 1: AFRICAN ROOTS," with Taj Mahal, Randy
Weston, Corey Harris, Abou M'Boup and Mamadou Diabate; Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

UPSTARTS! AT DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA, featuring high-school and college
musicians, some from Juilliard Jazz; 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.; cover, $15, with a
$10 minimum at the tables, $5 at the bar.

Tuesday, Oct. 26

"THREE SHADES OF BLUES ‹ NIGHT 2: COUNTRY," with Ricky Skaggs, Wycliffe
Gordon and Mark O'Connor; Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

DIZZY GILLESPIE FESTIVAL: LATIN DIZZY, with the Paquito D'Rivera Sextet;
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, 7:30 and 9:30. Also Oct. 27 to 31, with additional
11 p.m. shows Oct. 30 and 31.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

"THREE SHADES OF BLUES ‹ NIGHT 3: SOUL," with the Holmes Brothers, Marie
Knight, Joey DeFrancesco and Houston Person; Rose Theater, 8 p.m.

Thursday to Saturday Oct. 28 to 30

"LET FREEDOM SWING: A CELEBRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE,"
readings from works by Vaclav Havel, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy,
Nelson Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt and others, set to music by Toshiko
Akiyoshi, Darius Brubeck, Darin Atwater, Jimmy Heath and others; featuring
the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis; Rose Theater, 8 p.m.
Also Oct. 29 and 30, same time.

Friday, Oct. 29

BRASIL LIVRE! with Hermeto Pascoal, and Cyro Baptista's Beat the Donkey
Special Edition; Allen, 7:30 p.m. Also Oct. 30, same time.

Tuesday, Nov. 2

DIZZY GILLESPIE FESTIVAL: BIG BAND DIZZY, with the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra,
Tom Harrell and others; Dizzy's Club, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Also Nov. 3 to 7,
same times, with 11 p.m. shows Nov. 6 and 7.

Wednesday, Nov. 3

"JAZZ IN MOTION," with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton
Marsalis, and New York City Ballet, Savion Glover, Garth Fagan Dance, the
Joe Chambers Percussion Ensemble and the Elizabeth Streb company; Rose
Theater, 8 p.m. Also Nov. 4 and 5, same time.