This internationally acclaimed jazz ensemble travels thousands of miles each year to perform and presents a free concert in the Robert A. Peck Arts Center Theatre. Complimentary tickets are available at the Arts Center Box Office from 3-6 p.m. weekdays.
Many of the musicians in the ensemble have extensive civilian performance experience including recordings, movie and television soundtracks and performances with major jazz and popular music artists. Alumni have gone on to careers in university teaching, studio recording and performance.
Members of the ensemble are also composters and arrangers whose talent helps create the band’s unique sound. Concert repertoire includes big band swing, bebop, contemporary jazz, popular tunes and Dixieland.
Each program includes exciting selections performed by the band’s talented and versatile vocalist, Master Sergeant Marva Lewis.
This group has performed at several of the world’s largest jazz festivals, including the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland, the Nice and Vienne Festivals in France, the Toronto Jazz Festival and the Jacksonville and Newport Jazz Festivals in the U.S.
The Jazz Ambassadors became the first military band ever to perform on the main stage at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1989.
Formal public concerts, school assemblies, clinics, music festivals, and radio and television appearances are all part of the Jazz Ambassadors’ yearly schedule. The band has appeared in all 50 states, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, and the Republic of India. Notable performances include participation in the inaugurations of presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.
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