It’s quite wonderful what they’re doing.’‘īut in the jazz world, which often is as factionalized as a lost Trotskyist tribe, the reviews are more mixed.Īt the heart of many criticisms is the sense that Jazz at Lincoln Center is using its bully pulpit to foster a cautious, unadventurous view of what jazz is. ‘‘Jazz has never had a space like the one at Columbus Circle. ‘‘They’ve done a marvelous job, and incorporating jazz on an equal basis at Lincoln Center is very important,’‘ said Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.
Officials are confident they will be able to raise the $65 million it will take to build their new home. On Friday he played and spoke in a program at the White House. Marsalis became the first jazz artist to win a Pulitzer Prize for music. The program’s budget has grown in three years from $3 million to $9 million, and this year it will present nearly 400 concerts, lectures, classes and workshops in New York and around the world. That goal has almost inevitably brought controversy and with it a question at the heart of the program’s mission: Does it exist mostly to celebrate jazz’s past or should it be helping to shape its future as well?īy almost any conventional measure, Jazz at Lincoln Center has been an astounding success. It is also, very consciously, about making choices, about defining the canon of an art form that is less than a century old. Jazz at Lincoln Center is not just about making music.
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The concert hall is billed as the first to be acoustically designed for jazz.īut the growth of Jazz at Lincoln Center, whose new season is in full swing, is also a reminder of the program’s ambitious agenda and its contentious place in the jazz world. Nothing has highlighted the growth of Jazz at Lincoln Center, a constituent of the center for only two years, as much as the announcement in July that the redevelopment plans for Columbus Circle will include an 1,100-seat concert hall and complex of offices and rehearsal rooms for the program. Led by Wynton Marsalis, the most celebrated jazz musician of his time, it is scheduled to move to the kind of coveted location that comes along only once every few decades. In just a decade Jazz at Lincoln Center has become the flagship jazz organization in the United States. The scene at the Supper Club on West 47th Street seemed to evoke the glory days of jazz - an ebullient swing band playing classic Ellington tunes as dancers in period costumes rocketed around the dance floor.īut rather than a throwback to the past, the filming for a PBS special was a snapshot of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra as one of the great cultural success stories in New York. A Jazz Success Story With a Tinge of the Blues: At Lincoln Center, Defining the Canon Draws Fire
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