About Jazz at Lincoln Center
"Jazz - we play it, we teach it, we write it, we dance it, we sing it, we present it, we photograph it, we film it, we produce it, we archive it, we record it, we broadcast it, we commission it, we celebrate it, we love it, we share it."

About The Rockefeller Foundation


About Sandra Day O'Connor


About Wynton Marsalis






It began one night over dinner, a casual conversation between a former Supreme Court Justice who grew up on a ranch in Arizona, and a trumpet virtuoso raised amid the music of New Orleans. It became A Celebration of America, a gala concert that took place in Washington DC on the eve of Barack Obama’s historic inauguration. It was presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center and sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Woven through a program of extraordinary music and hope, former Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and trumpet virtuoso Wynton Marsalis continued the conversation they'd begun a few months before. This series of taped segments are their riffs on why jazz music and the Constitution are uniquely American – and so very much alike.

A Celebration of America: Democracy from The Documentary Group.

Finally, a true reckoning of the cultural inheritance—African-American at the root, but infinitely complex, infinitely soulful, completely our own—right in the center of official Washington. Let freedom ring.
The New Yorker - David Remnick
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