Lander Jazz Ensemble’s First Performance of 2025-26
The community is invited to join the Lander University Jazz Ensemble for their first performance of the 2025-26 academic year Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in the Abney Cultural Center Auditorium. This event is free.
The Lander Jazz Ensemble is a 23-piece band that performs standard repertoire, including compositions originally performed by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Glen Miller, Count Basie, Bob Mintzer and many other notable jazz artists. The ensemble explores a wide range of different styles of jazz music representing different eras of the genre, including Afro-Cuban, swing, pop, bebop, cha-cha and mambo, with the idea of exposing student musicians – and the audience – to the various kinds of grooves, rhythms, melodies, harmonies and tempos.