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Schedule
Past
Gigs
Repertoire
Audio
Tours
Distinctions
Guest
Artists
Jazz
Faculty
Auditions
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Cal
Poly’s University Jazz Bands program combines the professionalism
of a working big band with the academic rigor of cutting-edge
big band repertoire.
The University
Jazz Band #1 has been professionally contracted to perform
at the world’s largest jazz festival (the Sacramento
Jazz Jubilee), the San Jose Jazz Society’s Sunday jazz
series, a swing dance series in Santa Barbara, the Morro Bay
Jazz Festival, the Jazz Jubilee in Pismo Beach, and as an
opening act for comedian Bob Newhart. The band also regularly
performs at swing dances on the Cal Poly campus.
The Cal Poly jazz bands perform specialized
repertoires, including modern big band concert compositions,
swing dance, world music (including Ethiopian pop), heavy-metal
(music from Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood big band album), TV
themes, and jazz for cartoons.
Guests artists that have performed
with the University Jazz Bands include Arturo Sandoval, Bill
Watrous, Mel Martin, Bobby Shew, Clark Terry, Red Holloway,
Louie Bellson, Billy Childs, Kevin Mahogany, Thelonious Monk,
Jr., Bruce Forman, and James Carter.
The University Jazz Bands have received unanimous superior
evaluations at collegiate jazz festivals, and was rated as
the best four-year collegiate big band at U.C. Berkeley's
Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival.
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