Utilizing the great versatility and variety afforded by these world-class musicians, multiple band formats, and diversity of women being paid tribute, Ellen Rowe has crafted an expansive and highly expressive new jazz experience.

The Juilliard School has been a destination for world-class music education since it was founded, and these incredible young musicians will exemplify that legacy in this performance. These gifted young musicians are proof of jazz’s bright future, and tonight they celebrate the essential, almost mythical New Orleans icon Buddy Bolden, the great cornetist and bandleader who helped develop jazz during its earliest stages.

With guitarist Chicuelo, pianist Marco Mezquida, and percussionist Paco de Mode.

With the full 150-member chorus, MasterVoices gives you an English-language Carmen as you’ve never heard it before. Performed with the Opéra Comique translation by Sheldon Harnick, this boldly modern production is helmed by wunderkind Sammi Cannold – and features Peabody Southwell, Noah Stewart, Steven LaBrie, and Nicole Cabell.

With pianist Sullivan Fortner.

Can a great composition be compared to the work of a great architect? The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis invites you to experience some of the most masterfully structured pieces in the jazz canon, including works by Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, and George Russell, plus the world premiere of Andy Farber’s Usonian Structures, a new suite inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

With pianist Dan Tepfer.

With pianist Aaron Parks.

With pianists Sullivan Fortner and Aaron Parks.

With pianist Emmet Cohen.

With pianist Adam Birnbaum.

With the Manhattan School of Music and alto saxophonist Miguel Zenón.

With pianist Benny Green, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Greg Hutchinson.

With conductor/arranger/composer Darcy James.

Renowned Drummer/Educator Dr. Jaz Sawyer recruits his admired peer Drummer/Bandleader Joe Farnsworth to celebrate the 1959 joint album “Rich Vs. Roach” by master drummers Buddy Rich and Max Roach.

With pianist Nduduzo Makhathini and saxophonist Logan Richardson.

Two extraordinary vocalists—each of them already a popular Jazz at Lincoln Center headliner—share The Appel Room stage in this Singers Over Manhattan showcase. Audiences will enjoy one of the most famous views in New York City while Mary Stallings and Freddy Cole sing their hearts out alongside pianist Emmet Cohen’s trio, featuring Russell Hall and Kyle Poole.

With pianist Makoto Ozone.

With guest alto saxophonists David DeJesus, Andrew Gould, and Nick Green; special guest vocalist Samara McLendon, alto saxophonist Eric Stein, alto saxophonist Alex Smith, tenor saxophonist Kendrick McAlister, tenor saxophonist Nick Massimo, tenor saxophonist Nick Massimo, baritone saxophonist Lee Altsher-Wood, trombonist Conor Powers, trombonist Zach Trombly, trombonist Marty Scott, bass trombonist Jake Lawless, trumpeter Jake Thomas, trumpeter John Hasselback, trumpeter Carlos Rivera, trumpeter Ben L’Ecuyer, pianist Brian Halliday, guitarist Leonid Vintskevich II, bassist Louis Pettinelli, and drummer Patrick Chan.

With tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery and trumpeter Michael Mossman.

With tenor saxophonist Tivon Pennicott.

JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby leads a gravity-defying exploration of the universe with the world premiere of his new commission. After kicking off the suite with the Big Bang, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will travel through a series of distinctive movements, evoking awe-inspiring galactic phenomena from supernovas, stars, and black holes to the formation of a galaxy and life itself.

With music director/conductor Terell Stafford and organist Akiko Tsuruga.

With trombonist Mariel Bildsten.

With vibraphonist Steve Nelson.

With vocalist Sofija Knezevic, trombonist Elliot Mason, pianist Dan Nimmer, bassist Carlos Henriquez, and drummer Obed Calvaire.

The Art Blakey Festival kicks off with a reunion of elite alumni from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, led by Ralph Peterson—the only drummer ever to play in the band alongside the drum maestro himself. Joining Peterson are saxophonists Bill Pierce and Bobby Watson, trumpeter Brian Lynch, pianist Geoffrey Keezer, and bassist Essiet Essiet.

In honor of Art Blakey’s centennial, Wynton Marsalis will celebrate his iconic jazz mentor with a handpicked group of young, up-and-coming jazz musicians. Marsalis will highlight the sound that kept Blakey’s Jazz Messengers vital and popular for so many years while also showcasing the next generation of musicians who will carry the art form forward.

Witness the world premiere of a new all-star trio assembled exclusively for this Jazz at Lincoln Center performance: Joey DeFrancesco on the B-3 Hammond organ, tenor titan Chris Potter on saxophone, and Jeff “Tain” Watts holding it down on drums. Each musician will contribute brand-new music and revisit some old favorites for the occasion.

Celebrate the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony’s 20^th Anniversary with a program led by Maestro David Bernard featuring the passion of Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del Destino, the power and elegance of Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto performed by the world renowned piano soloist Misha Dichter, and the brilliantly evocative and playful Prokofiev Symphony No. 5.

Hailed as “one of the world’s most famous vocal chameleons” by the New York Times, Bobby McFerrin delivers one of the most transcendent experiences in live music. Truly a genre unto himself, the ten-time Grammy Award winner and multi-platinum-selling artist is a master of spontaneity, vocal ingenuity, and musical and spiritual openness.