Wednesday (4/25) on the New York Times blog ArtsBeat, James C. McKinley Jr. reports, “The trustees of Jazz at Lincoln Center have reached into the ranks of business leaders in the digital media sector for a new executive director, hiring Greg Scholl, a former NBC Universal executive with a background in digital music distribution, to manage the nonprofit arts institution. Mr. Scholl, 42, will on June 1 replace Adrian Ellis, who resigned in January after steering the organization through a turbulent period of growth. Mr. Scholl’s appointment is part of a reorganization being carried out by Wynton Marsalis, the jazz trumpeter and artistic director for Jazz at Lincoln Center, often referred to by the initials J.A.L.C. Mr. Marsalis has in the past focused mostly on programming concerts and leading the organization’s orchestra, but he said in a press release this week that he wanted to take ‘formal responsibility for longterm strategic planning and for leading J.A.L.C. into a new era of innovation.’ … Before going to NBC, Mr. Scholl was the president and chief executive of The Orchard, a company that bought music from independent and foreign labels then sold it to iTunes and other digital music services.”
Posted April 26, 2012
