Jazz at Lincoln Center Info

Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio will feature Essentially Ellington during the month of May with a special broadcast highlighting last year's Competition & Festival in New York. The hour-long broadcast includes performances by the top three placing bands at the 2007 Festival - Roosevelt High School from Seattle, WA, Agoura High School Studio Jazz from Agoura Hills, CA and Foxboro High School from Foxboro, MA - as well as interviews with students, directors and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. It is scheduled to air on public radio stations nationwide between May 10th and 24th. For more information and a list of stations click here. The show also will be available for online listening at www.jalc.org/radio.

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EE Competition & Festival schedule, May 15-17!

The 13th Annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival in New York City is just two weeks away! Below is a schedule of performances; for more information about the weekend's events click here.

Tickets are still available for the Festival Concert and Awards Cermony at Avery Fisher Hall, featuring the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis with the three top placing bands. To purchase tickets, click here.

Competition Part I
Friday May 16
3:00 - 6:00pm
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Free, Tickets Required

Competition Part II
Saturday May 17
10:00am - 12:00pm
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Free, Tickets Required

Competition Part III
Saturday May 17
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Free, Tickets Required

Festival Concert and Awards Ceremony
Saturday May 17
7:30pm
Avery Fisher Hall
$20-25
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Wynton Marsalis featured in Teaching Music magazine

Wynton Marsalis, Jazz at Lincoln Center's Artistic Director, is featured in the April issue of Teaching Music magazine in a outstanding cover story that includes a Q&A with Wynton about jazz education.

To read the article online, click here.
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For more information on Essentially Ellington
Contact Joanna Massey and Martin Hundley
www.EssentiallyEllington.org
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212-258-9812 (t)
212-258-9900 (f)