# Yale Jazz Ensembles

**Source**: https://bands.yale.edu/staff-and-leadership/yale-jazz-ensembles
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# Yale Jazz Ensembles

The Yale Jazz Ensembles combine the combo and “big band” styles of jazz and present a variety of music from all styles of the genre: from classic pieces from the golden age of the big band to standards — including those from Yale’s Benny Goodman archive — to the newest, most progressive jazz compositions. The Yale Jazz Ensembles have performed in the United States and internationally at such noted venues as New York’s Village Vanguard, Iridium Jazz Club, and Dizzy’s Club; Boston’s Scullers Club, and London’s Ronnie Scott’s. The Yale Jazz Ensembles have played with or opened for the Mingus Big Band, the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the World Saxophone Quartet, Jane Ira Bloom, Jimmy Owens, and Branford Marsalis, Randy Brecker, George Coleman, and Wayne Escoffery.

While the Yale Jazz Ensembles offer a jazz performing experience primarily to undergraduates, graduate students and other members of the Yale community often can be included in the group.

[Yale Jazz Ensembles musicians](/yale-jazz-ensembles-musicians)