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"   Photo: Samsung  Sexy R &amp;amp;amp; B singer and nine-time Grammy winner John Legend spent much of yesterday at Manhattan&amp;#039;s Time Warner Center: In the morning, he announced the winners of Samsung&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Solve for Tomorrow&amp;quot; contest which awarded $1 million in technology prizes to schools across the country to help increase student interest in math and science. That night, donning a tux, he returned to attend Jazz at Lincoln Center&amp;#039;s 2011 gala concert, starring three musical legends: JALC founder and artistic director, the trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis; guitar icon Eric Clapton; and blues performer Taj Mahal. We caught up with Legend at the post-concert dinner, held at the Roseland Ballroom. ELLE: What brings you to the gala tonight?John Legend: I just came to watch a good show and to support this amazing organization that is such an important part of New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center. ELLE: Do Wynton or Eric have any influence on your personal music?JL: Well, I&amp;#039;m a fan, so if that means yes, yes, then yes. ELLE: What are your tour plans?JL: I&amp;#039;m going on tour this summer with Sade, so we&amp;#039;ll be all over North America, and I&amp;#039;m actually about to go to Asia and Australia for a couple of weeks starting next week. ELLE: What about your album with the Roots, Wake Up!?JL: We&amp;#039;ve pretty much finished touring for that. The Roots are doing &amp;quot;Jimmy Fallon,&amp;quot; so we couldn&amp;#039;t do a lot together, but we did a few shows and they were very memorable, and the album got three Grammys, so that was wonderful. Now I&amp;#039;m moving on, working on the next album, which will be a solo album. ELLE: Tell me about the Samsung awards today.JL: We gave technology grants to five schools that submitted videos that demonstrated how they were going to use math and science to help their environment in their communities. It was really inspiring to see the kids work so hard to get this funding for their schools. Samsung was very generous to put this contest on, and to honor the work that these math and science students and their teachers are doing around the country. ELLE: How did you get involved with this?JL: I&amp;#039;ve worked with Samsung for a while on different charitable things. My focus is education, we try to make sure that kids around the country can get better public education. These schools are examples of schools that are trying to do the right thing by the kids. ELLE: Tell me what you&amp;#039;re wearingJL: I&amp;#039;m wearing my favorite tux, I wear it all the time. It&amp;#039;s a Louis Vuitton tux. ELLE: What are you learning from your pal Kanye West about fashion?JL: He&amp;#039;s one of the most fashionable people I know. He&amp;#039;s always on the cutting edge, and I know he&amp;#039;s working on his own line now. He&amp;#039;s got great taste. We&amp;#039;ve got different tastes, but I have a lot of respect for his taste. ELLE: How would you describe your taste, as opposed to his?JL: I&amp;#039;m a little more conservative, he&amp;#039;s a little more rock-star than I am. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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