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Wynton Marsalis, Artistic Director
WeBoP!
 Jazz at Lincoln Center's recently inaugurated WeBop!, a newly designed music education program in which children (ages 2-5) and their parents/caregivers sing, move, and play with the soulful rhythms and melodies of great jazz. WeBop! teachers lead children to a greater understanding of jazz, of their national musical heritage, and, ultimately, of themselves. WeBop! is produced in collaboration with Teachers College, Columbia University. The three terms of classes, each 8 weeks, take place on Tuesday and Saturday mornings.
Middle School Jazz Academy
 One service that Jazz at Lincoln Center's Education Department has long wanted to provide is instrumental instruction. A pre-professional instrumental training program will enable Jazz at Lincoln Center to provide jazz instruction to New York City-area children from families that cannot afford private music lessons. To initiate this program, Jazz at Lincoln Center would first like to focus on serving students in grades 7 and 8, and perhaps mature 6th graders in New York City schools.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is committed to promoting the tradition of apprenticeship that has long been crucial to the history and development of jazz, and this new program will provide the earliest point of entry into the Jazz at Lincoln Center family and the range of services the organization can provide to nurture the talent and careers of young artists. The program will also be designed so that participants may draw upon all of the resources that the organization is uniquely able to offer, and become fully engaged in the life of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival
 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is Jazz at Lincoln Center's most intensive and far-reaching educational initiative. The goals of this program are to promote the study and performance of Duke Ellington's music, and to foster mentoring relationships between students and professional musicians. Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated the tenth anniversary of this program in May 2005. Essentially Ellington now annually serves more than 28,000 students in approximately 1,150 high schools across the country.
Each year, Jazz at Lincoln Center commissions transcriptions of six Ellington compositions from the original recordings. The scores are distributed to all interested high schools, and to enter the competition schools must submit audition tapes of their bands performing three of the songs. 15 finalists are selected, and each May, the bands travel to New York for a three-day festival of jam sessions, master classes, rehearsals, and the final live competition. The three top-placing bands win the honor of performing an evening concert with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall. Essentially Ellington has evolved over the years to become a highly prestigious, nationally known high school jazz program. In addition, there is only a nominal fee for the participants, so Jazz at Lincoln Center relies heavily on individual, corporate, and foundation support to continue operating this successful program.
Jazz for Young People Concert Series
 The Jazz for Young People Concert Series features live performances for children of all ages, their parents, and educators. The concerts are part performance and part narrative, and often include audience participation. This wonderful and inspiring concert series takes place in Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall and at the Apollo Theater. In an effort to keep this program accessible to families from throughout the five boroughs, Jazz at Lincoln Center keeps the tickets prices very low, requiring that we garner contributions to offset the cost of production.
The 2005-2006 season will feature the following four Jazz for Young People Concert presentations:
- "Tappin' Into Monk" featuring Savion Glover, October 29, 2005, Rose Theater "What is New Orleans Jazz?" featuring Wynton Marsalis, December 2, 2005 at the Apollo Theater and December 3, 2005 in Rose Theater "Who is Count Basie?" featuring the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, February 10, 2006, Apollo Theater, and February 11, 2006 in Rose Theater
- Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill, April 22, 2006, Rose Theater
Jazz in the Schools Series
 The Jazz in the Schools series is a wonderful example of Jazz at Lincoln Center fulfilling its mission to educate youth on the richness of jazz music. Each fall and spring, a two-week Jazz in the Schools tour brings distinguished jazz artists and combos to public elementary and middle schools in all five boroughs, annually reaching 6,000 students. During the 2005-06 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce eight Jazz in the Schools concerts at Frederick P. Rose Hall.
The jazz artist presenters explore the magic and mechanics of jazz while emphasizing audience participation and active learning for students who otherwise might not have the chance to experience jazz first-hand. Jazz at Lincoln Center also offers complementary professional development workshops for teachers from participating schools. Prior to each tour, a teaching artist and the tour's lead performing artist conduct two 100-minute workshops about the program content and potential related classroom activities, so that students are optimally prepared to enjoy the performance and retain the program's educational content.
Adult Education
Jazz Talk
 Our popular series of panelist discussions about jazz and our world, features artists, writers, scholars and musicians. Sometimes heated, always lively. View the complete Jazz Talk schedule for the 2005-06 season.
Jazz 101
Eight-weeks courses featuring presentations and conversations with jazz historians, musicians and educators about jazz history, jazz legends, and major influences. View the complete schedule of Jazz 101 classes for the 2005-06 season.
For more information, please call the Development Office at 212-258-9985, or fax or e-mail us at 212-258-9900 or develop@jalc.org.
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