An hour-long special entitled Jazz at Lincoln Center Presents: A Swingin’ Sesame Street Celebration will debut on PBS stations nationwide on October 30, at 9:00 pm ET. The show was filmed in front of an audience in 2019 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis welcomes beloved Sesame Street characters Elmo, Bert & Ernie, Big Bird, Herry Monster, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, The Count, Abby, Hoots the Owl and Rosita to sing classic Sesame Street songs for fans of all ages.
The repertoire is reimagined favorite “Sesame Street” songs as big band bonanzas with brand-new arrangements. Those classics include “Rubber Duckie,” “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” and “People in Your Neighborhood.” Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra are no strangers to the fifty years and counting award-winning show. Trumpeter Kenny Rampton has performed countless jazz classics on it over the years. Wynton Marsalis visited Sesame Street to play “Take the A Train” with the “Duck” Ellington Orchestra in 1991 and “No Matter What Your Language (Our Music Can Be The Same)”alongside Hoots the Owl in 1998.
To ensure jazz will be performed and appreciated, both now and in future generations, Jazz at Lincoln Center has developed education programs and a diverse array of live performances that help audiences, from childhood on learn about jazz’s distinct American heritage, its great works and musicians and relationships to other artistic disciplines. All of these programs including Swing University, WeBop, Essentially Ellington, and Middle School Jazz Academy and more are available online via jazz.org.
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