UPCOMING  EVENTS

Classic jazz trumpeter Duke Heitger is known for his warm sound, virtuosity, and unwavering musicality. While renowned on the international scene, performing and recording around the world, he reigns as one of the longest tenured bandleaders appearing regularly on the New Orleans Steamboat Natchez..

Born in 1973 into the musical Brunious and Santiago families, at age 12, Mark Braud’s uncle Wendell Brunious gave him a cornet, and soon after that he began playing jazz with Nicholas Payton. Braud started his career with the Olympia Kids, an offshoot of the Olympia Brass Band for younger musicians.

Lars Edegran & The Palm Court Jazz Band represent some of the best traditional jazz offered in the Crescent City. The veteran musician and bandleader most often plays piano, guitar, or banjo, but has been known to perform on the mandolin, clarinet, or saxophone when the mood is right...

Great New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Gregg Stafford spent much of his childhood in the Central City neighborhood, home also to early jazz phenom Buddy Bolden, nearly a century before him. He saw lots of parades, often sang in church, developed a real love of music, trained truly by local culture

Trumpeter Kevin Louis is a 1995 graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), earned a Bachelor of Music degree 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...

Join us for the Grand Finale of Nickel-A-Dance's 30th Season this evening!

Join us for our 30th Season!

Join us for our 30th Season!

Join us for our 30th Season!

Join us in the Performing Arts Center recital hall, for an evening celebrating the life and legacy of our Patriarch of Jazz and the founder of the UNO Jazz Studies program, Ellis Marsalis, for a community screening of "ELLIS: The Life and Complicated Times of Pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr"

Join us for the Season Opener of the Fall 2023 Jazz @ The Sandbar series featuring A Tribute to our Co-Founder, Ellis Marsalis Jr, led by Derek Douget and members of the last Ellis Marsalis Quintet!

Join us for our 30th Fall Season opener this evening! The inimitable Dr. Michael White kicks off the series with the 7-piece Original Liberty Jazz Band, and this evening's installment is also an official show of the 2023 #NOLAxNOLA Citywide Festival.

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...