UCF Orlando Jazz Festival

The UCF Orlando Jazz Festival is an annual jazz event hosted at the University of Central Florida founded in 2008 to bring world-class jazz to Orlando, Florida, and has appeared twice on Jazz Set, a program hosted by Dee Dee Bridgewater that appears on Sirius/XM Radio and NPR. It is a combination of performances by top artists, the UCF Jazz Ensemble 1, the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, a national honors-combo featuring top high school jazz students, and appearances by some of the top high school bands in the State of Florida as part of a second-day clinic.

Guest Artists

Over the six years of the two-day festival, it has featured guest artists:

• One for All
• Charles McPherson
• Mulgrew Miller
• Terrell Stafford
• Lenny Pickett
• Lou Donaldson
• Kevin Mahogany
• Mike LeDonne
• Dr. Lonnie Smith
• Grant Stewart
• Guisando Caliente
• Antonio Hart
• Michael Philip Mossman
• Catherine Russell
• David Hazeltine