University of California Jazz Ensembles

Welcome to UC Jazz

UC Jazz Ensembles is a student program dedicated to the performance, study, and promotion of jazz at UC Berkeley. UC Jazz is one of three groups, including the Cal Band and UC Choral Ensembles that comprise Student Musical Activities (SMA), a department within Cal Performances. These groups provide musical education, performance experience, and leadership and arts management opportunities to students from every academic discipline.

UC Jazz provides rehearsal space and instruction for six ensembles each year, composed primarily of Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students and community members from the Bay Area.

Currently UC Jazz consists of six small combos and one big band; the small combos range in experience from beginning-intermediate to advanced. UC Jazz also holds monthly master classes taught by our faculty and occasionally hosts guest artists from the jazz world for clinics.

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