Carnegie Mellon Jazz Orchestra & JIVE-Carnegie Mellon Jazz Choir

The Carnegie Mellon School of Music Jazz Ensembles explore a variety of jazz genres, from traditional swing to current trends in jazz fusion and jazz chamber music, while also performing jazz classics in a big band style.

Mark Snyder, Director of Carnegie Mellon Jazz Orchestra
Betsy Lawrence, Director of JIVE-Carnegie Mellon Jazz Choir

Program: 

Christian Kriegeskotte Call It Jazz if You Want to

John Lennon and Paul McCartney Got to Get You Into My Life

Cole Porter You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to

Freddie Mercury Don’t Stop Me Now

Chuck Wayne Solar

Erroll Garner Misty

Freddie Hubbard Red Clay

Sammy Nestico Basie Straight Ahead

Stevie Wonder Isn’t She Lovely

Charles Mingus Us Is Two

Teena Marie Portuguese Love

Billy Strayhorn Chelsea Bridge

Jeffrey Lopez Peashooter

Cost: Free and open to the public; Tickets required.