5 Great Ways to Educate Your Ears!


1: Swing U with Phil Schaap and guests
2: Jazz Talk
3: Jazz for Young People®
4: Essentially Ellington
5: WeBop!

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Jazz for Young People®

Rose Theater
Saturdays, 1pm and 3pm
3–concert Subscription: $96/$51/$36
Recommended for ages 6 and older


WHO IS THELONIOUS MONK?
November 15, 2008
"A genius is one who is most like himself," said Monk. And nobody was more himself than Thelonious! Music by the "High Priest of Bebop" shows children and families the amazing things that can happen when you follow your own heart. Host Wynton Marsalis and friends open the Monk Festival weekend by playfully exploring his unique musical universe.

WHAT IS HOT JAZZ?
March 7, 2009
We all know that jazz invented cool. Now host Wycliffe Gordon and friends talk about the many ways jazz musicians can set a song ablaze, and put some Tabasco on their swing to show us how!

WHO IS BENNY GOODMAN?
June 6, 2009
How did a young boy from Chicago’s Jewish ghetto become the King of Swing and the most popular bandleader in the country? The licorice stick is back in the limelight when the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Swing, Swing, Swings this classic American story.

When you subscribe to the Jazz for Young People® Concert series online, your subscription includes a one-year subscription to Time Out New York Kids (value $5)

Time Out New York Kids is the official media partner of the Jazz for Young People® Concert series.