The 2013-2014 season for Jazz at Lincoln Center brings performances, commissions and homages by some of the organization’s regulars and favorites â€" Ahmad Jamal, Dianne Reeves and its artistic director Wynton Marsalis, to name a few â€" but also a noticeable amount of contemporary and experimental jazz, the organization is expected to announce on Tuesday.
There are a few new frameworks for the concerts. One is called “JLCO Hosts,†putting important contemporary bandleaders with the house orchestra in the Rose Theater. There will be two such double-billings: Kenny Garrett and Mulgrew Miller (Feb. 21-22) and Christian McBride and Kurt Rosenwinkel (May 23-24). Another is called “A Side/B side,†booking two contemporary groups â€" some in first-time appearances at Jazz at Lincoln Center â€" as a double bill over the course of a weekend in the Allen Room. Those shows include the guitarist Jim Hall and saxophonist Chris Potter’s Underground Orchestra (Nov. 22-23); the pianist Vijay Iyer€™s trio and the pianist Billy Child’s Jazz Chamber Ensemble (Jan. 24-25); and two groupings of composer-performers: one featuring Reid Anderson, Eric Harland, Carla Kihlstedt, Guillermo Klein, and Bill McHenry; the other, Latin-focused, including Carlos Henriquez, Pedro Martinez, Dafnis Prieto, Yosvany Terry and Elio Villafranca.
The guitarist Bill Frisell has been brought in as guest curator for a “Roots of Americana†series in the Allen Room. Through the season he will present and play in a Gershwin program, including the pianist Jason Moran, the mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran, his wife, and the singer-songwriter Sam Amidon; another focusing on the 1927 “Bristol Sessions,†foundational to country music, including Buddy Miller and Carrie Rodriguez; and a concert called “The Electric Guitar in America,†including Mr. Frisell’s frequent collaborators Greg Leisz and Tony Scherr.
Other concerts include the pianist Mr. Jamal, enfolding his qu! artet within the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to play his music, for the season’s opening weekend (Sept. 19-21); Mr. Marsalis’s 2008 extended work “Abyssinian Mass,†for orchestra and 70-voice gospel choir (Oct 24-26); the South African trumpeter Hugh Masakela (April 4-5); the composer Maria Schneider’s orchestra (March 14-15); the singer Bobby McFerrin (Jan. 24-25); the Andalusian guitarist Tomatito playing flamenco on March 15; The Sun Ra Arkestra, featuring Marshall Allen, observing the centenary of Sun Ra (Oct. 5); a mini-festival devoted to Dave Brubeck, who died in December, including a staging of his jazz musical, “The Real Ambassadors†directed by the pianist Eric Reed (April 10-12); a special quartet, including Jack DeJohnette, Leo Genovese, Joe Lovano and Esperanza Spalding (Feb. 28-March 1); a Dianne Reeves concert for Valentine’s day and a “Big Band Holidays†show near Christmas, with the singer Cecile McLorin Salvant; concerts of Pakistani, Brazilian and Cuban music; an repertory-based programs organized around Ellington, Brubeck,Cole Porter and others. Tickets and information are available at jalc.org.
