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