US Navy Commodores Jazz Ensemble at NCCU

NCCU Jazz Studies Program hosts the U.S. Navy Band Commodores! The US Navy’s top jazz ensemble will present a concert on the campus of NCCU.

One of the Nations’ top jazz ensembles will spend a day on the campus of North Carolina Central University. The 18-member group continues the jazz big band legacy with some of the finest musicians in the world. NCCU Jazz piano alumni (MM ’12) Ryan Hanseler is the newest addition to this great ensemble. Their concerts are an eclectic mix of traditional big band music, exciting jazz vocal arrangements and fresh new instrumental music written specifically for the Commodores of today.

The concert will be held in the New Student Center (corner of Fayetteville and Cecil St), beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Commodores will have workshops with the NCCU Jazz Studies students from 1 to 3:30 p.m.