Series 1: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) Series 2: Jazz Jam (JJ) Series 3: Latin in Manhattan (LM) Series 4: Hall of Fame (HOF) Series 5: Singers Over Manhattan (SM) Series 6: Smokin' Jazz Sessions (SJS) Series 7: Duo Tones (DUO) Series 8: Jazz for Young People (J4YP) BACK TO BENEFITS	Series 4: Hall of Fame (HOF) 3 concerts Rose Theater, 8pm Series Packages start at only $79.20 Five members of the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame—Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and John Coltrane—are celebrated through a re-examination of some of their classic compositions and recordings. Free pre-concert lectures Come early to learn about the Hall of Fame and the evening’s concert with the artitsts making the music and the scholars who know all about it. Irene Diamond Education Center, 7pm The Music of Thelonious Monk November 20-22, 2008 Traditionally performed by small groups, the music of Thelonious Monk was on rare occasions orchestrated for larger ensembles. This very special concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis presents big band arrangements of Monk’s idiosyncratic compositions and features one of the premiere interpreters of Monk’s music today with pianist Marcus Roberts. Songs of Protest & Unity January 22-24, 2009 In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we honor legendary drummer and civil rights activist Max Roach. This concert weaves together the work and lives of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Lincoln with Roach’s We Insist! Freedom Now Suite, Sonny Rollins’ Freedom Suite and the music of Charles Mingus. Miles and Coltrane: 50th Anniversary of Kind of Blue and Giant Steps February 12-14, 2009 In 1959, two seminal albums changed the way jazz was played and heard: Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and John Coltrane’s Giant Steps. Along with music director Mulgrew Miller and his trio, a capella masters Take 6 bring their unique style to the music of Kind of Blue, while the saxophone section of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays orchestrated solos from Giant Steps. The legendary Jimmy Cobb, the drummer on Kind of Blue, joins the evening’s festivities as these groundbreaking masterpieces are re-imagined.