students in jazz combos prepare and perform their own compositions and arrangements throughout each semester. Here students learn the intricacies of performing with a small number of musicians and ...

Our jazz ensembles take pride in performing arrangements and original compositions by CU Boulder ... such as samba and baião. Jazz combos are organized to develop improvisational skills in a small ...

now Mr. Marsalis and his Lincoln Centurians are traveling back to the roots of the music with “Jazz Americana,” a show that features new arrangements of pivotal pre-jazz pieces — the blues, folk songs ...