[Dixielandjazz] Lincoln Center Jazz Programs

[Stephen G Barbone]

Note that "Vincent" Giordano will be at Lincoln Center during the  
spring of 2011 for a program of 20s and 30s music. Presented as a  
backdrop for Ken Burn's new documentary, "Prohibition'.,

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband


February 23, 2010 - NY TIMES - By Ben Ratliff
New Season, More Vocalists for Jazz at Lincoln Center


Voices — from jazz, blues, cabaret and gospel — dominate Jazz at  
Lincoln Center’s 2010-11 season, its 24th, to be announced on Tuesday  
by that organization.

“Last year there were a lot of piano players in the season,” said  
Wynton Marsalis, artistic director at Jazz at Lincoln Center. “Some  
years it just works out a certain way. The piano is the foundation of  
music’s composition, and singing is the human connection.”

The subseries Visionary Voices will present a string of shows at Rose  
Theater, including concerts by Bobby McFerrin (Nov. 12-13), Dianne  
Reeves (Feb. 10-11) and Sweet Honey in the Rock (April 15-16, 2011).  
Jazz and Popular Song, a three-night series, will be hosted by the  
cabaret singer Michael Feinstein. “Michael’s a first-rate scholar on  
the connection between American popular song and jazz,” Mr. Marsalis  
said. “His concerts will deal with the intersection of both.”

The singing continues in a two-night stand by Nancy Wilson (Oct. 8-9);  
a Billy Strayhorn-themed concert featuring the versatile young singer  
José James (Nov. 5-6); a two-night pairing of Diane Schuur and the  
saxophonist Lew Tabackin (Dec. 10-11); a Jazz at Lincoln Center  
Orchestra show based around Sarah Vaughan, including Mary Stallings  
and Jane Monheit (Jan. 21-22); another house-orchestra program  
centered on Kurt Weill, with the art-song vocalist Ute Lemper (March  
3-5, 2011); the blues-folk-and-beyond performer Taj Mahal (Feb. 25-26,  
2011); and the bossa-nova singer Rosa Passos.

Among other Rose Theater shows, Chucho Valdés, the Cuban piano  
virtuoso, will perform with his octet, the Afro-Cuban Messengers (Oct.  
22-23). Chick Corea will collaborate for the first time with Mr.  
Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with new  
arrangements of music from across his nearly 50-year career (Jan.  
20-22). The drummer Roy Haynes is to play with guests including Kenny  
Garrett, Dave Holland and Danilo Perez. And there will be two double  
bills: one of innovative elders, the pianist Ahmad Jamal and the  
saxophonist Lee Konitz; and one of midcareer giants, the saxophonist  
Branford Marsalis and the trumpeter Terence Blanchard.

Two concert programs in spring 2011 have been organized around Ken  
Burns’s forthcoming documentary “Prohibition”: a Rose Theater concert  
of music from the 1920s and ’30s, with the Jazz at Lincoln Center  
Orchestra and Vincent Giordano, and two performances in the Allen Room  
by the pianist Bill Charlap and the British singer Claire Martin.

The organization’s on-site education programs continue, with classes  
on subjects including free jazz, bebop and Thelonious Monk; and  
several levels of jazz-history overview taught by the broadcaster Phil  
Schaap. This year, according to Mr. Marsalis and the organization’s  
executive director, Adrian Ellis, Jazz at Lincoln Center plans to make  
its past concerts available through online downloads; it will also  
release CDs on its own label.

Information and tickets for the season’s concerts are available at  
jalc.org.