On Friday 8th February, we’re absolutely delighted to welcome the Durham University Big Band to the Magdalen College Grove Auditorium for the annual OUJO x DUBB jazz-off. Come and hear two of the UK’s best student bands play a huge range of big band rep, from classic swing to hip-hop, latin to neo-soul. DUBB come to us on top form having recently released a fantastic new EP ‘Twenty’, and we look forward t0 hearing them play tunes from that and a lot more this coming Friday – get your tickets here!

7.30pm 2nd Feb 2018 T.S.Eliot Theatre

Once again we’ve invited our friends from Durham University to come down south and play with us for an inaugural joint concert as the two Big Bands go head to head. This is not one to be missed!

Tickets on sale now through the link above
Students: £5
Standard: £8

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*TICKETS RELEASED* 

A Love Supreme – John Coltrane’s masterpiece arranged for jazz orchestra by the virtuosic Wynton Marsalis, performed on the 16th of February by OUJO, the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra.

Mark Armstrong, leading UK jazz trumpeter and Artistic Director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), joins the band as they peform the European premier of Marsalis’s arrangement of this jazz epic. Originally composed by Coltrane as a tribute to God after his journey out of substance abuse, the “symphonic poem in four parts” deals with musical a landscape of emotional and spirtual breadth what words could not describe. Demanding incredible virtuosity across all members of the band, this performance will be a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience one of jazz’s greatest triumphs.

In the first half, the band will also perform a variety of jazz orchestra and big band music, ranging from popular jazz standards performed by their fantastic vocalists to classic rep from Mingus, Basie, Niehaus.

17th November (Friday of 6th week) – 7.30pm tickets: £8 tickets (£5 for students)
It’s that time of year again: the eagerly-anticipated, annual Varsity Jazz Off with the mighty Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra (CUJO). Tickets are now live – click here to get yours now!

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7th November (Tuesday of 5th week) – 8.30pm
£3 entry for students – free for Jazz Soc members.

Debut gig for the new band members and first public outing of the academic year!