Jazz in the 38th season of Lincoln Center is celebrating Jazz, Africa and the African Diaspora with programs that pay tribute to Genre -Groten such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis, while others will bring vocalists, pianists and other trompettiers to the attention. It will also contain a tour through Africa by the Jazz in Lincoln Center Orchestra.
The new season opens on July 24 with a preview concert, “Reflections on Africa”, in the Rose Theater. The program, with the Jazz in Lincoln Center Orchestra and Vincent Gardner as the musical director, offers compositions that reflect the effect of African consciousness on music, composed by jazz artists, including Coltrane, Randy Weston” Jackie McLean And Horace Parlan.
The season will take place on September 18 with “Afro!,” A new composition by Wynton Marsalis, the managing and artistic director of Jazz in Lincoln Center, which illuminates its meditations on the African continent. It will also contain the Vocalist Shenel Johns, the Djembe player Lead Braimah And the drummer Herlin Riley.
On 3-4 October, Jazz presents a 91st birthday retrospective of the 75-year career of the pianist and composer born in Kaveren Stad in Lincoln Center Abdullah Ibrahim. (He was known as a dollar fire when Duke Ellington first heard his trio in 1963 and sponsored his first recording.)
On October 24 and 25, the orchestra will contain another South African pianist, Nduduzo Makhathini, including a debut of new work he has composed.
Works by Ellington are central on January 15-17, 2026, with “Duke in Africa.” The music directors for that program are Chris Lewis and Alexa Tarantino, two of the newest members of the orchestra.
On February 13 and on Valentine’s Day, Dianne Reeves will explore the universal theme of love while she shares songs that emphasize Rapture, fear, romance and heartache.
The orchestra will work by Davis from 14-16 May 2026, in “Sketches of Miles: Miles Davis Op 100.” Later that month (29-30, 2026), Jazzmeia HoornThe winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Vocals Competition, presents a program with its vocal range and improvisation, with the Her Noble Force Big Band.
Etienne CharlesThe trumpet player and composer born in Trinidad will record Afro-Caribbean traditions in “Folklore live vol. 2” in the apple room from 5-6 June 2026 in the Appel Room Anglophone. Later that month, 12-13 June 2026, the orchestra with Marsalis will also explore the African roots that help form the genres of Brazil, with ‘Soul of Brazil’, with Hamilton the Holanda and the music of Moacir Santos, in the Rose Theater.
The full season is online at Jazz.org/25-26.
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