Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2016-17 season will celebrate a clutch of jazz centenaries and welcome an array of familiar collaborators, often in new configurations. The season, running from September through next June, has no official theme but could be seen as a homecoming: this will be Jazz at Lincoln Center’s first full slate of programming since the reopening of Frederick P. Rose Hall, after renovations to create the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Atrium last year.
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, led by Wynton Marsalis, will perform 10 concert programs in the Rose Theater — typically two- or three-night runs with a clear historical angle. That includes the season opener, “Handful of Keys: A Century of Jazz Piano” (Sept. 22-24), featuring the pianists Dick Hyman and Joey Alexander, who were born more than 75 years apart. It also extends to centennial tributes to the bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie (Jan. 26-28), the big band drummer Buddy Rich (April 7-8), the ebullient singer Ella Fitzgerald (April 27-29) and the modernist pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (June 1-3).
A centennial repertory will underscore Dee Dee Bridgewater’s concerts in the Appel Room (Sept. 23-24), also featuring several of her fellow singers. A Rose Theater program, “Jazz 100: The Music of Dizzy, Ella, Mongo & Monk” (Oct. 14-15), will spotlight an all-star group led by the pianist Danilo Pérez. And the saxophonist Jimmy Heath will preside over his own 90th birthday celebration in the Appel Room (Oct. 21-22).
Several leading jazz artists will appear under special circumstances, including the guitarist John Scofield, whose Appel Room stand will reunite him with the bands from two starkly different albums: “Blue Matter,” a 1986 fusion workout (May 5), and “Quiet,” a chamber-jazz gem from a decade later (May 6). In the Rose Theater, the saxophonist Branford Marsalis will augment his working quartet with the singer Kurt Elling (Jan. 20-21), while the pianist Brad Mehldau will perform in both solo (Oct. 1) and duo formats, with the saxophonist Joshua Redman (Sept. 30).
Mr. Redman will appear in the Appel Room with Still Dreaming, a new quartet in the lineage of Ornette Coleman (March 31-April 1). A more purely experimental entry will be New Sanctuary, an electro-acoustic project led by the trumpeter Dave Douglas, with partners including the cornetist Wadada Leo Smith and the guitarist Marc Ribot (March 3-4).
World music will be a presence mainly in the Appel Room, when the Lebanese trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf pays tribute to the Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum (Sept. 30-Oct. 1); the Cuban pianist Elio Villafranca presents “Letters to Mother Africa,” for a band with David Murray and Billy Harper on saxophones (Oct. 14-15); and the Brazilian singer Rosa Passos teams up with the pianist Kenny Barron, for a living iteration of bossa nova (Dec. 9-10).
Among the other singers on the schedule are Dianne Reeves, in a Valentine’s Day warm-up at the Rose Theater (Feb. 10-11); Cécile McLorin Salvant, in the Appel Room (May 19-20); Lucky Peterson, in a program called “Roots of Acoustic Blues” (Jan. 20-21); and Michael Feinstein, paying homage to both Nat King Cole (April 5-6) and Mel Tormé (May 3-4). The blues-rock guitarist Steve Miller will crop up in the Rose Theater to celebrate one of his influences, T Bone Walker (Dec. 9-10).
Schedules and ticket information can be found at jazz.org.