“Why We Love NYC” Partner Spotlight: Jazz at Lincoln Center

Exactly one from week from tonight, Wednesday January 25th, we will be heading down to The Bell House in Brooklyn to host a pop culture trivia night celebrating all things NYC, as well as to mark TrivWorks “Special Host” Pat Kiernan’s 15th year as NY1’s morning news anchor. In anticipation of what will most certainly be an extremely exciting and energetic event, I want to make sure that each of our amazing prize partners has a chance to shine – and boy, do we have something shiny to announce today!

Given that prizes for the evening are intended to reflect “quintessential NYC” experiences, it gives me such joy to share that Jazz at Lincoln Center – perhaps the most prototypical of all NYC institutions – will be partnering with us for this event! Contestants next Wednesday will be competing for the chance to see the one and only Wynton Marsalis himself, performing in concert with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and legendary saxophonist Lee Konitz, in the spectacular Rose Theater!

Wait – hold on…let me say that again, a little more slowly:

Wynton Marsalis.

Lee Konitz.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Rose Theater.

If that’s not “quintessential NYC” than I don’t know what is!

There are few places or organizations which scream “New York City” more than Jazz at Lincoln Center. I am honored to have had a personal connection to this venerable institution when I interned there a decade ago, during my graduate studies at NYU’s music & entertainment business program. I got to be there during a critical time: the (then-AOL) Time Warner Center was still being constructed, and within its walls was to be the new, state-of-the-art home of Jazz at Lincoln Center – and, ostensibly, the heart of all things jazz in New York City, we well as the country. I had the privilege of helping transition JALC to its new surroundings, and of meeting Mr. Marsalis himself – who, though only in his early-40s as the time, was already considered one of the most important living figures in jazz, as well as one of New York’s most beloved residents.

Next Wednesday, Pat Kiernan will be awarding prime orchestra tickets to attend Jazz at Lincoln Center’s much-anticipated Stan Kenton Centennial in February, treating winners to an incredible night of jazz – arguably the most important of all American art forms – performed by world-class musicians, playing in the most prestigious of Manhattan venues.

That, friends, is the very best NYC has to offer – or anywhere else, for that matter.