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UCF Orlando Jazz Festival

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The UCF Orlando Jazz Festival is an annual jazz event hosted at the University of Central Florida founded in 2008 to bring world-class jazz to Orlando, Florida, and has appeared twice on Jazz Set, a program hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater that appears on Sirius/XM Radio and NPR. It is a combination of performances by top artists, the UCF Jazz Ensemble 1, the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, a national honors-combo featuring top high school jazz students, and appearances by some of the top high school bands in the State of Florida as part of a second-day clinic.

Guest Artists

Over the six years of the two-day festival, it has featured guest artists:

  • One for All
  • Charles McPherson
  • Mulgrew Miller
  • Terrell Stafford
  • Lenny Pickett
  • Lou Donaldson
  • Kevin Mahogany
  • Mike LeDonne
  • Dr. Lonnie Smith
  • Grant Stewart
  • Guisando Caliente
  • Antonio Hart
  • Michael Philip Mossman
  • Catherine Russell
  • David Hazeltine
  • References

    UCF Orlando Jazz Festival Wikipedia