UC Jazz

next Friday at the MLK student union!

Get ready for a full week of jazz during dead week featuring; big band, 5 beginning and 3 intermediate jazz combos, world music ensemble, Brazilian music ensemble, video game music ensemble (), UC Jazz Orchestra, and AAPI jazz initiative. All events are open to everyone and anyone, and free save the UC jazz orchestra concert for which tickets are available at the link in our bio!

Sat April 25 2-4 PM we will be having our annual Spring Concert featuring all our advanced combos at Hertz Hall! Come hear what our musicians have been working on all semester!

Tickets are now live for UC Jazz Orchestra’s end of semester concert in May! Come see some live jazz with lush orchestral strings, as well as a special collaboration with Cal Jazz Choir 🎻🎷🎤 Link in bio

May 6th, 7:30pm
First Congregational Church Berkeley

Free jazz is coming to you every Friday at MLK with our noon concerts, featuring a new combo each week! Our first show will be this Friday

All concerts are at noon with the exception of Dann’s combo on April 13 which will take place from 6:00-7:00 PM

Join us in Hertz Hall this Wednesday from 12-1pm for our annual collaboration concert with the Music Department!

This concert features our UC Jazz Orchestra as well as the Music Department’s Nu Jazz Collective, and admission is free!

If you can’t make it in-person to the concert, it is also being broadcasted live on 90.7 KALX, where you will be able to listen to the performance in full over radio or internet streaming!

Come support our Japanese jazz fusion ensemble next Thursday! There will be a jam after

🎷 THE BIG GIVE : March 12 (All Day!)
UC Jazz needs you. Yes — YOU!!
Your donation helps us:
🎶 Maintain instruments & equipment
🎼 Rent performance spaces
🎓 Continue top tier education from some of the Bay Area’s best musicians
Every dollar keeps Berkeley swinging.
Mark those calendars!!!

A glimpse of UC Jazz Orchestra’s very first concert last December. Thank you to everyone who made it!

You can catch UCJO again at the upcoming “Jazz x2” noon concert at Hertz Hall (March 4th, 12pm) where they will preform a set alongside Professor Myra Melford’s Nu Collective ensemble. Stay tuned for even more shows this semester!

🎥 Video and editing by Wilhelm Scholz, Reagan Calaguas, and Hayden Eick

UCJO is now recruiting for our orchestra pit for the spring ’26 semester! If you’re a string musician or know someone who may be interested, check out the link in the bio for more details and an interest form.

UCJO is a student-led ensemble comprising a jazz quintet accompanied by a string orchestra pit. Join us for a semester of fun music and memories!