And on March 8, 1979, as a joint undertaking with the Library of Congress, the Performing Arts Library (PAL) opened for public service with two hundred visitors on opening day. The PAL maintained approximately five-thousand reference books, including directories, encyclopedias and dictionaries, histories and biographies, indices, abstracts, handbooks and manuals, annals and chronologies, and over 450 periodicals and newspapers. The PAL served more than seventeen thousand visitors, students, and arts professionals annually. The PAL remained open as an official library, jointly with the Library of Congress, until 1994. Following a fifteen-year relationship, a decision was made by both entities that the Library of Congress would discontinue its support effective October 1, 1994. In September 1994, the PAL was officially renamed the Education Resource Center (ERC). The ERC was used by artists, staff, volunteers, and the general public for a variety of reasons. During its life span, several thousand patrons visited the ERC while the space was used as a reading room. On March 12, 2003, the space formerly known as the ERC was officially designated the Terrace Gallery, which is now home to the Kennedy Center Jazz Club.

Coming to the Terrace Gallery :

KC Jazz Club: Jonathan Batiste Quintet

• Feb 26, 2010
• Terrace Gallery
• Running Time: 75 minutes
• Tickets and Schedule

Description:

Discovery Artist
Jonathan Batiste Quintet
A member of a long lineage of musicians from the Batiste family of Louisiana, pianist Jonathan Batiste graduated from Juilliard in 2008. The New York Times praised him as "stunning," noting that he "favors streamlined, attention-to-detail rhythm, deep but often played with light accents." Reflecting his New Orleans ties, Batiste has recorded with Harry Connick Jr. and has performed with some of the Big Easy's most outstanding and respected musicians, including the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Irvin Mayfield, Nicholas Payton, Alvin Batiste, Cyril Neville, Donald Harrison, George Porter Jr., Russell Batiste, and Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews. He was awarded the "Movado Future Legend" award in jazz in 2006, was named a "Steinway Performing Artist" in 2008, and has been playing around the world.