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 2022 season! Free Admission

2021's rising jazz star of the year Emmet Cohen, with a handful of piano awards already under his belt, is now a Mack Avenue recording artist and tours with greats such as Ron Carter, Christian McBride, and New Orleans' own Herlin Riley. $10 Admission

Victor Goines is a native of New Orleans, and has been a member of NYC's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring the world and recording more than 20 albums. Currently, he is the Director of Jazz Studies at Chicago's Northwestern University. $10 Admission

We welcome trumpeter Ashlin Parker back to UNO this season, where he is always a favorite instructor among students and performer among audiences at his alma mater. $10 Admission

Jazz @ The Sandbar is proud to present renowned Kentucky-raised, New Orleans-schooled pianist and composer Jon Cowherd of the famed Louisiana-bred Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band as a guest teaching artist this season with his Mercy Project. $10 Admission

Jazz @ The Sandbar is proud to present New Orleans native and UNO school of music alumni, bassist Jasen Weaver, on his return home from his new residency in Belgium, as a featured guest teaching artist for this season's series. $10 Admission

Jazz @ The Sandbar is proud to partner with the CubaNOLA Arts Collective to present rising Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Pacheco for his second visit to New Orleans and first guest artist residency with the UNO school of music. $10 Admission

Trumpet and Tuba player Tom Saunders' 12-Piece Big Band is a jazz orchestra known as the TomCats, playing 1920s "hot dance" and 1930s swing of New Orleans and New York's Harlem. Tom Saunders and the TomCats perform a large repertoire with a focus on the rare, unheard "hot music" of this period.

Jazz @ the Sandbar is proud to partner with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra to present award-winning vocalist Jazzmeia Horn for her debut New Orleans performances and teaching artist residency this month, and for her to open the Spring 2022 season at the Sandbar with UNO music students. $10 Admission

Famous for "knowing more than 2,000 songs," trumpeter and vocalist Wendell Brunious boasts a towering musical family tree primarily flowered with trumpets. He is the son of trumpet master John “Picket” Brunious Sr. & Nazimova “Chinee” Santiago, the niece of guitarist/banjoist Willie Santiago.

Trumpeter Kevin Louis is a 1995 graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, earned a Bachelors of Music in Jazz Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1999), a Masters of Arts from the Aaron Copeland’s School of Music at Queens College (2001), and has toured at least 30 countries.

Gerald French is from one of the pioneering families of New Orleans traditional jazz, known as “The Giant” for his own original style of drumming, which has taken him all over the world. He’s been Charmaine Neville’s drummer since the early 2000s, as well as for the Dixie Cups and Harry Connick Jr.

The New Leviathan Oriental FoxTrot Orchestra is an American revival orchestra, that performs authentic orchestrations of vintage American popular music from the 1890s through the early 1930s.

Several of Tim's tunes have been featured in television shows, commercials, and motion pictures. With this, he is the first New Orleans clarinetist to write and record an entire album of originals.

Gregg Stafford’s trumpet playing is steeped in tradition.

Description:A Seattle-based saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist, Rex Gregory has performed and/or recorded with a diverse array of luminaries.

Thais Clark is a high-energy performer with a deep-rooted passion for the bawdy number popularized by blues legends Ma Rainy and Bessie Smith. This dynamic singer-dancer can present songs like no one else, having more than thirty years of performing before audiences at home and around the world.

A 2017 Ravinia Fellow, she has performed with various artists including Steve Turre, Don Vappie, Wessell “Warm Daddy” Anderson, Nicholas Payton, Jamison Ross, Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah, Kermit Ruffins, and singer-songwriter Kristin Diable.