WHO/WHAT: Rags, Strides and Stomps: Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates solo piano and the generations thereof featuring Marcus Roberts – a “genius of modern piano” – and Jonathan Batiste and Aaron Diehl, two rising stars. This concert highlights the stride piano and includes works by James P. Johnson, Willie “The Lion” Smith and Fats Waller.  This concert is made possible with a gift from Burwell and Chip Schorr. Entergy Nuclear is the corporate sponsor of this performance.

WHEN: March 28 & 29, 2008, 7:30pm & 9:30pm WHERE: The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, on Broadway at 60th Street, New York City. HOW: Tickets at $60 are available at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Box Office on Broadway at 60th Street, by calling CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500 or via www.jalc.org.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education and broadcast events for audiences of all ages.

These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, a jazz appreciation curriculum for children, advanced training through the Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses and student and educator workshops.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff, Executive Director Katherine E. Brown and Jazz at Lincoln Center board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces hundreds of events every year.

In October 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center opened Frederick P. Rose Hall—the first-ever performance, education and broadcast facility devoted to jazz. The facility has three performance venues: Rose Theater (seats about 1,200), The Allen Room (seats about 500) and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (seats 140).