Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Jazz at Lincoln Center: Not Actually
at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center
can be found a few blocks south at the
Time Warner Center at Broadway and 60th Street on Colum-
bus Circle (
&
212/258-9800;
www.jalc.org). Though the move
was downtown, it was definitely a move up. The complex on
the fourth floor of Time Warner's northern tower features
two performance spaces, a jazz club, a mini jazz Hall of Fame,
and a 7,000-square-foot atrium with views of Central Park.
The largest venue is the
Rose Theater,
where you might see
the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis,
performing the swing music of Thad Jones. Acoustics are per-
fect and seating is spacious. The glittering jewel of the Cen-
ter is the
Allen Room
with its 4,500-square-foot glass
backdrop behind the main stage offering views of Central
Park and the Manhattan night sky. It's hard to believe that
what was once played in smoky basements is now presented
in venues as spectacular and opulent as these.
Also at Jazz at Lincoln Center is
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
(
&
212/258-9595;
p. 179), a stylish, intimate jazz club that's
open every day.
institution. Whenever you're planning an evening's entertainment,
check the offerings here—which can include opera, dance, sym-
phonies, jazz, theater, film, and more, from the classics to the con-
temporary. Lincoln Center's many buildings serve as permanent
homes to their own companies as well as major stops for world-class
performance troupes from around the globe.
Resident companies include the
Metropolitan Opera
(
&
212/
362-6000;
www.metopera.org), with its full production of the clas-
sic repertory and a schedule packed with world-class grand sopranos
and tenors; the Metropolitan Opera ranks first in the world.
The opera house also hosts the
American Ballet Theatre
(www.abt.org) each spring as well as visiting companies such as the
Kirov, Royal, and Paris Opera ballets.
The
New York State Theater
(
&
212/870-5570
) is the home of
the
New York City Opera
(www.nycopera.com) a superb company,
that not only attempts to reach a wider audience than the Met with
its more “human” scale and lower prices, but is also committed to
new productions of classics, new work, and occasional avant-garde
work.
