University of Miami Concert Jazz Band

University of Miami Concert Jazz Band: Romances

by J. Robert Bragonier
February 25, 2004

Since its inception in 1967, the University of Miami Concert Jazz Band has become one of the world’s pre-eminent educational jazz ensembles. Sixteen times Downbeat has awarded the band its DB Award. Over the past 22 years the band has traveled throughout the United States, Europe, Central America, and the Middle East, and appearing with it have been many of the best-known performers in jazz, ranging alphabetically from Louis Bellson and the Brecker brothers to Bobby Watson and Kai Winding. ...