UPCOMING  EVENTS

Join us tonight for the semester's end to hear UNO school of music students' growth as they present their Jazz Studies spring recitals to close out our Spring 2023 season! Free Admission

Originally hailing from Oregon and currently based in NYC, saxophonist, composer and educator Nicole Glover is this week's special guest teaching artist, clinician and student jazz combo bandleader...

Award-winning trumpeter and arranger Maurice "MoBetta" Brown, an LSU grad currently touring with Anderson.Paak and previously of Tedeschi Trucks Band, is this week's special guest teaching artist, clinician and student jazz combo bandleader...

Vocalist and educator at Berklee College of Music, Cindy Scott is the special guest teaching artist, clinician, and student jazz comb bandleader this week...

Award-winning pianist, composer and educator Victor Atkins is this week's special guest clinician and student combo bandleader...

Master drummer Leon Anderson is this week's visiting professor and guest teaching artist, performing with the UNO Jazz Studies Student Combo Band...

Master bassist Rodney Whitaker of Detroit, director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University and Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Civic Jazz Orchestra, is the featured visiting professor and guest teaching artist this week with the UNO Jazz Studies Student Combo Band...

Trumpeter, singer and drummer Norbert Susemihl has been a traveler in New Orleans music for many years, performing on international festivals and concerts. For over 4 decades he has been commuting between his second home in New Orleans, his birthplace of Hamburg, and later also Denmark...

Mark Brooks is one of New Orleans most talented and sought after bassists and vocalists...

Legendary New Orleans drummer presents his renowned New Orleans Sound for this edition of Nickel-A-Dance...

"The King of Tremé" kicks off this season's Nickel-A-Dance series!

From the first time he picked up a saxophone, Roger Lewis began betting on a career as a musician. The now 80 year old New Orleans native has been playing as a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, formed in 1977. | $10 Admission

Byron Asher is a clarinetist and saxophonist, composer and improviser based in New Orleans. Raised in Maryland, he has performed across Europe and the US and is adjunct faculty at UNO. | $10 Admission

Gerald French is from one of the pioneering families of New Orleans jazz and is known as “The Giant” for his own original style of drumming, which has taken him all over the world performing many types of music. 2022 marks his 10th year as bandleader for the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band. | $10

New Orleans is a drummer’s town. But in this town full of first class drummers, Herlin Riley is “the” drummer. The Baron of the Boom Boom. The Pulse that keeps the life flowing through any body of work.

Dubbed "one of the most exciting pianists in contemporary jazz" by The Guardian, pianist & composer Lynne Arriale’s career is graced by a love of melody and a joy of musical discovery. We welcome Lynne back to New Orleans for her first guest teaching artist week in partnership with SouthArts. | $10

Trumpeter Will Smith was introduced to jazz at an early age by his older sister, civil rights activist and longtime early Jazz Fest and Preservation Hall staffer, Dodie Smith-Simmons, and his brother-in-law, fellow trumpeter John "Kid" Simmons, who would take him almost nightly to Preservation Hall.

Raised in a musical family - his father a great lover of jazz & classical music, his mother, a blues & zydeco bass player - Roland Guerin began playing bass at the age of 11. While studying Marketing at Southern University, Guerin joined legendary jazz educator Alvin Batiste’s band. | $10 Admission