| For the past decade, the
internationally renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center, a nonprofit arts
institution, has provided a venue for world recognition of jazz. With
Wynton Marsalis as artistic director, the arts institution
promotes jazz in as many formats as possible. Through an annual concert
schedule that showcases today’s leading musicians and also honors
historical jazz greats; through its own Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra;
through films, radio broadcasts and educational programs for young
people, Jazz at Lincoln Center has established jazz as America’s
foremost contribution to the world history of musical genres.
Jazz at Lincoln Center will be moving to a new complex at Columbus
Circle, overlooking Central Park, and, according to the arts
organization’s Website (www.jazzatlincolncenter.org), there will be
"bandstands posed against soaring walls of glass and a dance floor
laid out beneath the moon and stars." Opening of the
100,000-square-foot complex is scheduled for 2004.
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