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UC Jazz Ensembles is a student program dedicated to the performance, study, and promotion of jazz at UC Berkeley. We provide rehearsal space and instruction for ten to twelve ensembles each year, composed primarily of Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students and community members from the Bay Area. Currently, UC Jazz consists of 12 combos ranging from intermediate to advanced levels and the Intro to Jazz DeCal. Rehearsals are held in the lower level of the Cesar Chavez student center down the hall in our UC Jazz department. In 2011, we introduced a DeCal Combo for course credit, and in Fall 2012, we started a beginning jazz DeCal to introduce students to the basics of jazz theory and history for people who want to learn how to improvise a jazz solo. In addition to our weekly combos, UC Jazz occasionally hosts guest artists from the jazz world for clinics. In February 2011 and 2012, we have three days of workshops with students from Japan who focus on drums/percussion, guitar, and bass. Meet our ensemble leaders, who are all professional musicians:
Ted Moore (Percussion) - Director of UC Jazz Ensembles; Advanced and Intermediate Combos
Frank Martin (Piano) - Advanced Combo
Dann Zinn (Tenor Saxophone) - Advanced Combo
Glenn Richman (Bass) - Intermediate Combo
Marty Wehner (Trombone) - Intermediate Combo
For more information on our instructors, and all other information relating to UC Jazz, please visit our website.
04/27/2026
next Friday at the MLK student union!
04/26/2026
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!
04/19/2026
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!
04/13/2026
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
03/17/2026
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
03/01/2026
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!
The Big Give is an annual event where you can support Berkeley organizations such as UCJazz and all its musicians! This year it is taking place All day on March 12, make your calendars!
02/25/2026
Come support our Japanese jazz fusion ensemble next Thursday! There will be a jam after
02/21/2026
🎷 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!!!
02/16/2026
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
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