NCCU Department of Music student Jawan Davidson was awarded a $10,000 scholarship by the Recording Academy’s Black Music Collective and Amazon Music’s Your Future Is Now initiative.
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.
Members of University Choir and Music Professor Roberta Laws created the voting incentive #MakeThemHearYou.
NCCU Jazz Studies Assistant Professor Lenora Helm Hammonds has released an album featuring NCCU students, faculty and alumni.
North Carolina Central University is saddened by the loss of Mr. Ellis Marsalis Jr., an iconic musician, pianist and the patriarch of the Marsalis family, who passed away on April 1, 2020.
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.