All that jazz

An iconic music center in New York is making big plans to open a new hub in China, Shi Yingying reports from Shanghai.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New York-based nonprofit music organization, has decided to build a permanent subsidiary in Shanghai. The 100-plus-seat club, to be opened in 2016 on the Bund, will be modeled on JALC's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola at home in Manhattan, with similar curved interior walls, open sightlines, superb acoustics and possibly a glass exterior wall that will overlook Shanghai's Holy Trinity Cathedral instead of Central Park.

"Jazz at Lincoln Center Doha, which we established last year, was our first satellite outside America," says Jason Olaine, director of programming and touring from JALC who's responsible for the Qatar project in partnership with the St. Regis chain of luxury hotels in Doha. "Both of them (clubs in New York and Doha) are on the fifth floors, so you look out over beautiful Central Park or the Persian Gulf while the band is playing. Having a visual element is a great part of the presentation."