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i KOOMKMs NEWS PHOTO JAMES PATRICK COOK to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Rosa Hall has been one of the driving forces behind the center's NEWSDAY SUNDAY OCTOBER 17 2004 wwwjiynmndayxom FanFars gprfjft of pss creation jazz music would never have received such spectacular digs in New York most prestigious cultural center without Marsalis messianic mqjou says Jazz at Lincoln Center -executive director Derek Gordon "is a powerful The driving force The force of personality and drive helped persuade Lincoln Center tb 1 make its jazz program a full-time constituent in 1996 its status commensurate with such major cultural institutions as the Metropolitan Opera the New York City -Ballet and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra Marsalis a graduate of another lincoln Center institution the Juilliard Music School has also made sure that this new facility has plenty of lecture halls classrooms and library space for its Sea JAZZ on CIO Wynton Marsalis at the entrance The BY GENE SEYMOUR STAFF WRITER onday is Wynton Marsalis 43rd birthday going to be busier and quite likely happier than on any birthday had before Sometime' around 10 sjol Marsalis trumpeter educator and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer is scheduled to count down the beat that soimdMmmwdans as- sembled at Lincoln Josie Robertson Plaza at 66th Street and Broadway in Manhattan The musicians will march six blocks downtown playing the traditional jazz music associated with New Orleans birthplace The procession will stop at 60th and Broadway beneath a marquee that announces the site as headquarters of Jazz allows you to unwrap a $128 million gift in such a conspicuous fashion Yet MmmIU insists that the convergence of his birthday and the Rose official opening was pure coincidence "They weren't ping to hold up construction for my benefit Marsalis Says one recent morning while music from Miles Davis Coleman Hawkins and Sidney Bechet wafts through the corridors of the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame in one of Rose more spacious corridors besides not about me he says never been about us What always been about is bringing people together This whole facility is designed to celebrate the spirit of jazz And because jazz is an expression of democracy this center is all about collaboration He can insist it's about me all he wants but at Lincoln Center For Marsalis who has been artistic director of Jazz at i-inenln Center since its mid-1980s inception this moment will represent the realization of a cherished dream: a glittering multi-leveled permanent home in the heart of Manhattan for the music to which he has sworn passionate unwavering allegiance A gala opening After more than a decade of planning Frederick Rose Hall a 100000-square-foot facility in the Time Warner Building on Columbus Circle will be open for business Jazz at Lincoln permanent home will as the saying goes the ground running Monday with a full slate of performances in the three main spaces the Rose Theater the Allen Room and Chib Coca-Cola At 8 pm Marsalis will conduct the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in the centerpiece the L231-seat Rose Theater be joined by the saxophonist brother Branford Marsalis as well as tenor player Joe Lovano pianists Kenny Barron and Marcus Roberts and singers Cyro Baptists and Abbey Lincoln among others The Allen Room which allows dining and dancing beneath a breathtaking pan- orama of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline will give its opening-night stage to Arturo Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra Club Coca-Cola a nightclub with its own scenic views will for its inaugural set host pianist Bill Char lap and his trio Somehow all these performers will be broadcast Monday on a two-hour at Lincoln Center on PBS not every birthday that.