NCCU’s Office of Alumni Relations hosted the “Lunchtime Jazz” on April 9, 2021, featuring music performed by students in the NCCU Jazz Studies Program.
NCCU Jazz Studies Assistant Professor Lenora Helm Hammonds has released an album featuring NCCU students, faculty and alumni.
The NCCU Big Band Jazz Ensemble will participate in its annual Valentine’s Day performance alongside musicians from Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The NCCU Jazz Ensemble will perform at Lincoln Center in New York City during the debut of the Jack Rudin Jazz Championship, a two-day invitational band competition.
Two jazz studies majors from N.C. Central University’s department of music were selected as recipients of a four-year scholarship from the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation.
NCCU instructor and drummer Thomas E. Taylor and New York percussionist/educator Alvin R. Atkinson Jr. will join the impressive gathering of jazz drummers performing on Aug. 25.