Millennium Stage
Couch Concert
Jason Moran and Rico McFarland
Streaming Live
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Millennium Stage
Foot thumping rhythms, crooning voices, soulful melodies – jazz is a music with a history as rich as its sound. Follow the great migration that lead African Americans to Harlem, meet jazz icons such as Bessie Smith and Charlie Parker, and stop by the Cotton Club and Apollo Theater on a journey through the past of this American art form.
Learn the basics of jazz music and how the art form works. Along with his band, Jason Moran shows you how jazz is more like skateboarding and football than you would think, as well as plays original and classic jazz standards.
Award-winning pianist, composer, and Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran is known for challenging "the same old thing" in jazz and confronting contemporary audiences' notions about the classic jazz trio.
From the archives of Kennedy Center Education, a conversation and performance with Kennedy Center Artistic Advisor for Jazz Jason Moran. (Recorded as part of the "Explore the Arts" series in 2012 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts).
Explore our deep archive of video highlights from this annual event paying tribute to our nation's preeminent artists with performances by the great stars of today who have followed in their footsteps.
Cynthia Erivo has graced the Kennedy Center stages for nearly a decade. See some of her most memorable performances here.
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