Jazz at Lincoln Center
33 West 60th St., 11th floor
New York, NY 10023
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org

November 22, 2004

LISTING INFORMATION:
Venue: Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center
Event: Cyrus Chestnut Trio with Special Guests Frank Morgan & Marcus Printup
Address: Frederick P. Rose Hall - Broadway at 60th Street, 5th Floor
Showtimes: 1st set 8:30pm-9:45pm — doors open 7pm
2nd set 10pm — music until whenever
Admission: 1st set $95 plus tax & gratuity (includes three-course meal)
2nd set $155 plus tax & gratuity (includes three-course meal plus champagne toast)
Credit cards will be charged at time of reservation, no refunds.
Reservations: (212) 258 9595 or www.jalc.org

• 1st Set 8:30pm - $95 – includes three-course meal
• 2nd Set 10pm - $155 – includes three-course meal plus champagne toast
• Plus Tax & Gratuity

(New York, New York) December 1, 2004 — Come out to celebrate New Year's Eve at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, located in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, with two special programs of music led by pianist Cyrus Chestnut and his trio, featuring alto saxophonist Frank Morgan, trumpeter Marcus Printup, plus AFTER HOURS with pianist John Hicks and bassist Curtis Lundy. Doors will open at 7pm to kick off the 1st set of music from 8:30pm to 9:45pm. Then at 10pm, the 2nd set will begin. Each set will include a three-course meal. The 10pm set will also include a midnight champagne toast.
Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola offers spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline and serves a jazz inspired menu seven days a week through the collaboration between Great Performances and Spoonbread culinary creators. Reservations can be made for these special engagements beginning on December 10th by calling at 212-258-9595 or via the Jazz at Lincoln Center website www.jalc.org.

Many great jazz pianists first perform live in church, so it is no surprise that Cyrus Chestnut came from those beginnings. The Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Baltimore is where seven-year-old Cyrus first played for an audience. From there, he went on to study piano and music theory at prep school before attending the Berklee College of Music. Since graduation, Chestnut has worked with Jon Hendricks, the Blanchard-Harrison Quintet, Wynton Marsalis, Betty Carter, and others. During his two years with Carter, Chestnut was encouraged by his boss to get his own group together. Chestnut took her advice and ended up releasing his first album for a major label when he was 30. Chestnut has also served as a pianist for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra during the 1995-‘96 season and maintains a busy touring schedule.

About his engagement at Dizzy's, Chestnut states, "I am elated to perform in a place that represents a new home for jazz in New York as well as the world. A place that carries Dizzy Gillespie's name will be a place where jazz in its many forms can and will hopefully be heard. Voices of old and voices of new will have a forum to share musical ideas." Chestnut continues, "This program will contain music of old as well as music of new. This means music from all of my albums and especially brand new music. I am currently working side by side on a full program of gospel music as well as a full program of the music of Fats Waller." He adds, "I most importantly am moved by the spirit of the moment so anything can and will happen. What I do hope is that for all who come to have a great time and leave feeling better than when they arrived."

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Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast events for audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Julliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses, film programs, and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President & CEO Hughlyn F. Fierce, Executive Director Derek E. Gordon, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2004-05 season. This is the inaugural season in Jazz at Lincoln Center's new home — Frederick P. Rose Hall — the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.  

For more information on Jazz at Lincoln Center, please visit www.jalc.org.