Jazz at Lincoln Center

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) is part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. JALC's performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall, is located at West 60th Street and Broadway in New York City, slightly south of the main Lincoln Center campus and directly adjacent to Columbus Circle. Frederick P. Rose Hall is housed inside the Time Warner Center. The complex was designed by acclaimed architect Rafael Viñoly and constructed by Turner-Santa Fe, a joint venture between Turner Construction and Santa Fe Construction. It opened in October 2004.

Overview

JALC's Frederick P. Rose Hall consists of three main music performance venues:

• Rose Theater, with 1,233 seats.
• The Allen Room, with 483 seats, featuring a 50 by 90-foot window overlooking Central Park.
• Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, with 140 seats, an intimate jazz club named after the famous jazz artist Dizzy Gillespie.

The hall also contains the Irene Diamond Education Center with rehearsal and recording rooms and the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame (NEJHF), a multimedia installation featuring an 18-foot video wall, interactive computer kiosks and touch-activated virtual plaques. Visitors can celebrate the lives, artistry and music of the jazz greats so integral to the art form and industry. JALC also launched a website based on the NEJHF.

Wynton Marsalis serves as the Artistic Director, Adrian Ellis serves as the Executive Director, and Antonio Ciacca serves as Director of Programming. The Jazz at Lincoln Center...
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