JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA
SPRING 2005 MENU BY
GREAT PERFORMANCES

World's First Performing Arts Facility at the Time Warner Center
Designed specifically for Jazz

PRESS CONTACT ANNA DE SOUZA AT 212. 645. 8006

NEW YORK – This month, Great Performances, New York's largest full-service catering and event planning company, debuts a Spring, 2005 menu for the critically acclaimed Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, one of three performance venues located within the Jazz at Lincoln Center facility. Great Performances, has designed a seasonal menu featuring jazz-infused dinner selections that focus on healthy comfort food and light smoky flavors. The menu presents an extensive repertoire of traditional Southern soul cooking, including Coca-Cola Chicken, the zesty Cajun Spiced Roasted Catfish Po-Boy sandwich and luscious finales such as Groovin’ High, a pecan torte drizzled in warm bourbon sauce. Great Performances’ team of culinary experts fuse creativity, ingenuity and impeccable service with cuisine so intense you’ll think you’re swinging in New Orleans. To schedule an individual tasting or an interview with Great Performances principals, please contact Anna De Souza by telephone 212. 645. 8006 or via email anna@workhousepr.com

DIZZY'S CLUB COCA-COLA SPRING 2005 MENU
In addition to live music, Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, a jazz club that is one of JALC's three performance venues within Frederick P. Rose Hall, serves a full menu of food and beverages. To create a distinctive menu of "down-home flavors with New York flair," Great Performances collaborated with Spoonbread, Inc., New York's largest African-American owned restaurateur. The menu reflects the diversity of jazz and the regions that epitomize it, and provides a warm and inviting experience for guests in the club, which is named in honor of jazz legend John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie and made possible by a leadership gift from The Coca-Cola Company. Additionally, Great Performances offers select dishes from Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola menu as part of the overall facility catering menu.

SAMPLE MENU:

• Pan-Seared Sea Scallops & Roasted Andouille Sausage: Served with celery root slaw and mustard aioli.  
•  Lightly-Fried Avocado Wedges: Served with chipotle dipping sauce.
•  Grilled-Chilled Prawn Martini: Cajun marinated shrimp with ginger bourbon cocktail sauce.
•  Coca-Cola Chicken: French cut chicken breast, stuffed with okra, peppers, onions and cornbread and sautéed baby spinach. Served with our special Coca-Cola demi glace and cornbread French toast. Blackened Atlantic Codfish: With sautéed black-eyed peas, wilted swiss chard and mustard beurre blanc.  
•  Grilled Rum Glazed Pork Chop: With sweet potato mash and sautéed greens.
•  New Orlean’s Gumbo: Lump crabmeat, shrimp, Andouille sausage, Tasso ham, chicken and white rice in a Creole essence.
•  Cajun Spiced Roasted Catfish Po-Boy: Roasted catfish, chili mayonnaise, vine ripened tomatoes and romaine lettuce on a Brioche roll served with chili chips.
•  Seared Salmon Club: Seared salmon, goat cheese, eggplant and roasted onions on two slices of hearty multi-grain bread with chili chips.
•  Central Avenue Chopped Salad: Field green, avocado, pea shoots, tear drop tomatoes, hearts of palm, roasted Portobello mushrooms, parmesan cheese and baby corn tossed in a sun-dried tomato vinaigrette.
•  Lighthouse Salad: Field greens, roasted baby beets, oranges, radishes, and organic cucumbers tossed in a basil vinaigrette.
•  The Blues: Blueberry crisp with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream.  
•  Groovin’ High: Chocolate pecan torte, whipped cream, fresh berries with a warm bourbon glaze. Manteca: Nutless chocolate fudge brownie piled high with cinnamon ice cream.
•  Laurinburg Cornbread Pudding: Cornbread and berry pudding topped with vanilla ice cream.

Great Performances
Established by Liz Neumark in 1979 as a staffing organization, Great Performances provided women in the visual and performing arts the ability to work in the catering industry while pursuing other career goals. Great Performances has been featured in New York Magazine, People, InStyle, Country Living, Bride’s and Martha Stewart Weddings andis the approved caterer at many of New York’s leading cultural institutions. As a result of more than a decade’s worth of work, Great Performances is acknowledged as a leader in high-profile events including the New York wedding of former Mayor Rudolph Giulliani and Judith Nathan. In addition to catering off premise events, Great Performances manages several cafés for leading New York cultural institutions including the Garden Court Café at the Asia Society, BAMCafé at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Café Opaline at the Dahesh Museum, and two smaller cafes at Wave Hill.  Great Performances operates a 17,000 square foot facility located at 287 Spring Street, which includes a state-of-the-art kitchen facility, offices, tasting rooms, and Mae Mae Café, its own forty seat enoteca di vino.

Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz. With the world-renowned Lincoln Center Jazz 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, film programs, and student and educator workshops. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, President Derek E. Gordon, Chairman of the Board Lisa Schiff and Jazz at Lincoln Center Board and staff, Jazz at Lincoln Center will produce hundreds of events during its 2004-05 season. This is the inaugural season in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new home – Frederick P. Rose Hall – the first-ever performance, education, and broadcast facility devoted to jazz.

Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
The new home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, FPRH, is the world’s first performing arts facility designed specifically for jazz education, performance and broadcast.  The highly-flexible multi-room facility allows new forms of interaction between the audience and musicians, and creates an experience informed by the unique sound, function and feeling of jazz.  FPRH also will accommodate other art forms, such as opera, dance, theater and symphony. Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, one of the three main performance spaces inside FPRH with views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, is an intimate, 140-seat jazz club that provides a space for ensemble performances and education, as well as informal gatherings, seminars and other events.  With a down-home groove the club is a place where Jazz at Lincoln Center produces world-class jazz nightly, throws parties for visiting musicians and welcomes people to hang out, have a drink and listen to hot swing.    Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola musicians will be given the time and artistic space to address their musical aims through extended bookings and artistic exploration.  Additionally, both up-and-coming and veteran musicians will integrate seamlessly on the bandstand, especially on Monday night’s Upstarts! sets. The jazz club presents two sets nightly during the week and three sets on the weekend, as well as the late-night hang set called After Hours.