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The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, commonly known as the Kennedy Center, is the national cultural center of the United States, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Opened on September 8, 1971, the center hosts many different genres of performance art, such as theater, dance, classical music, jazz, pop, psychedelic, and folk music.
Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) [1] was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and from 1994 was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. [2] [3]
In the decades since the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in the US State Department has sponsored Jazz Ambassadors in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Alongside their performances, they also conduct master classes and lecture-recitals for local musicians.
What the Kennedy Center honor and jazz means to Sandoval When asked what the Kennedy Center means to him through music, Sandoval played "God Bless America." "I strongly believe the most important ...
When the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened its doors in September of 1971, it was a solemn celebration featuring a radical new work from Leonard Bernstein: his genre-jumping ...
Bill Kreutzmann, top right, gives bunny ears to his Grateful Dead bandmates during a group photo of the 2024 Kennedy Center honorees at the State Department on Dec. 7, 2024.
In April 2017, Bridgewater was the recipient of an NEA Jazz Masters Award [10] with honors bestowed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and in 2018 was awarded the 2018 Maria Fisher Founder's Award by the Thelonious Monk/Hancock Institute of Jazz. [11] Bridgewater was also, in November 2019, inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. [12]
[1] [7] She has performed at the annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2001, 2004, and 2007, and performed at the Kennedy Center's KC Jazz Club in 2010. [8] [9] Her performance in the KC Jazz Club was in support of the album Soulchestral Groove, which Briggs independently ...