Jazz

WIlliam Thomas McKinley
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NEC: Jordan Hall

Join us for a retrospective look at the music of William Thomas McKinley, featuring a diverse cast of amazing ensebles and performers including Dinosaur Annex, Transient Canvas, Nahre Sol, Michael...

Dave Douglas
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NEC: Jordan Hall

The Grow Your Art Residency culminates in a concert with Dave Douglas and NEC Jazz.

About the Grow Your Art Residency:

How do you earn a living and manage a sustainable business while honoring your...

Balcony scene from West Side Story Tony reaches up while Maria reaches down from the balcony and their fingertips touch
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NEC: Jordan Hall

The NEC Jazz Orchestra kicks off their season with a program of Bernstein classics including selections from his beloved Broadway masterpiece West Side Story.  The program will also include Prelude...

NEC Prep Jazz
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NEC: Brown Hall

NEC Preparatory School's Youth Jazz Orchestra highlights works by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, with additional repertoire by Benny Carter, Benny Golson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dexter Gordon.

Jazz Lab group photo
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Scenes from Jazz Lab and GuitarFest 2018
Tanya Kalmanovitch 21CM
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"Much of what I now teach about art-making comes from my experiences between the ages of 22 and 30, when things fell apart." — Tanya Kalmanovitch, Contemporary Improvisation and Entrepreneurial Musicianship faculty
A singer performs as part of a jazz ensemble
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NEC: Brown Hall

NEC's Jazz department kicks off the school year with a jam session in Brown Hall.

Dave Holland with a student ensemble
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NEC: Eben Jordan Ensemble Room

In July 1968, Miles Davis was so impressed with a London performance by jazz bassist Dave Holland that he asked Holland to join his band. On the road with Davis for two years, Holland also recorded on...

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NEC: Jordan Hall

Welcome to NEC's Jazz Lab: An intensive program for high school students including daily concerts free and open to the public!

Jazz Lab is a tent pole of NEC’s summer programming, bringing together...