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Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra The Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra (CCJO) creates experiences that advance jazz as a living a

Trumpet or flugelhorn? 🤔Chuck Mangione's signature sound came from the flugelhorn, a cousin of the trumpet with a wider,...
10/20/2026

Trumpet or flugelhorn? 🤔
Chuck Mangione's signature sound came from the flugelhorn, a cousin of the trumpet with a wider, cone-shaped bore. The result is a darker, rounder, mellower tone.

Listen for the difference on Oct 29.
📅 Thu, Oct 29 · 7pm (doors 6pm for dinner) Only 10 seats left.
📍 The Redmoor, 3187 Linwood Ave.

🎟 cincinnatijazz.org/tickets-venues

1970: jazz went electric, global, and back to its roots, all in one year. Swipe through. 👉🎹 Chick Corea records The Song...
10/19/2026

1970: jazz went electric, global, and back to its roots, all in one year. Swipe through. 👉
🎹 Chick Corea records The Song of Singing, a bold experiment in atonal jazz.
🔵 Corea and bassist Dave Holland quit Miles Davis's band and form Circle.
⚡ Keith Jarrett joins Miles on electric organ.
🌍 Charles Mingus and Sun Ra both record in Berlin.
🇳🇴 Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek visits the U.S.
🎼 Joshua Rifkin records Scott Joplin's rags, sparking a ragtime revival.
Which would you have wanted to see live? 👇

Wynton Marsalis, Sunday, Oct 18🎺 Happy 65th birthday to Wynton Marsalis! A towering trumpeter, composer and educator, an...
10/18/2026

Wynton Marsalis, Sunday, Oct 18
🎺 Happy 65th birthday to Wynton Marsalis! A towering trumpeter, composer and educator, and co-producer of our Let Freedom Swing! education program. Thank you, Wynton, for championing jazz and the next generation of players. 🎉

Our season opens October 29 with a trumpet-powered tribute to Chuck Mangione: https://cincinnatijazz.org

Eric Lechliter has shared the stage with jazz greats like Jeff Hamilton, Terell Stafford, and Byron Stripling, and with ...
10/16/2026

Eric Lechliter has shared the stage with jazz greats like Jeff Hamilton, Terell Stafford, and Byron Stripling, and with The Four Tops and The Temptations. 🎺

He's also passing it on. Eric teaches jazz, commercial music production, and preparatory students at CCM, and founded The Original Farm League Big Band to champion music by living Cincinnati composers.

Cincinnati jazz is in good hands. Hear Eric and the CCJO Oct 29 at The Redmoor. 💛

🎟 cincinnatijazz.org/tickets-venues

1977: Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" takes a flugelhorn instrumental onto pop radio. Hear it live with the CCJO, Thu O...
10/15/2026

1977: Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good" takes a flugelhorn instrumental onto pop radio. Hear it live with the CCJO, Thu Oct 29, The Redmoor. Listen here https://youtu.be/YKp7g0mxHVc?si=VsaGjTe3I-1PBFzp 🎟 cincinnatijazz.org/tickets-venues

A Jazz Master playing tribute to the Jazz Masters. 🏆Born in New Albany, Indiana, saxophonist and educator Jamey Aebersol...
10/14/2026

A Jazz Master playing tribute to the Jazz Masters. 🏆
Born in New Albany, Indiana, saxophonist and educator Jamey Aebersold was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2014, the nation's highest honor in jazz, for a lifetime of teaching and advocacy.

📅 Sun, Nov 8 · 2pm · First Unitarian Church
🎟 cincinnatijazz.org/tickets-venues

Another Ohio original! 🎹Art Tatum was born on this day in 1909 in Toledo. Nearly blind, he played with such speed and ha...
10/13/2026

Another Ohio original! 🎹
Art Tatum was born on this day in 1909 in Toledo. Nearly blind, he played with such speed and harmonic imagination that pianists still talk about him with awe.
Ohio has given jazz some true giants.

In 1977, Chuck Mangione released "Feels So Good," and a flugelhorn instrumental became one of the most recognizable song...
10/12/2026

In 1977, Chuck Mangione released "Feels So Good," and a flugelhorn instrumental became one of the most recognizable songs on pop radio. 📻
Nearly 50 years later, it still does exactly what the title promises. Hear it live with a full big band.

📅 Thu, Oct 29 · 7pm (doors 6pm for dinner)
📍 The Redmoor, 3187 Linwood Ave.
🎟 cincinnatijazz.org/tickets-venues

Born on this day in 1919 in Pittsburgh: drummer Art Blakey. 🥁His Jazz Messengers were jazz's great finishing school, lau...
10/11/2026

Born on this day in 1919 in Pittsburgh: drummer Art Blakey. 🥁
His Jazz Messengers were jazz's great finishing school, launching generations of stars. One of them was a young trumpeter from Rochester, New York, named Chuck Mangione, who played with the band in the 1960s.
Hear Chuck's music with a full big band on Oct 29.

🎟 cincinnatijazz.org/tickets-venues

Happy birthday, Thelonious Monk! 🎹Born October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Monk wrote some of the most-pla...
10/10/2026

Happy birthday, Thelonious Monk! 🎹
Born October 10, 1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Monk wrote some of the most-played tunes in jazz, including "'Round Midnight," "Straight, No Chaser," and "Blue Monk." His angular, unexpected style still sounds like no one else.
Favorite Monk tune? 👇

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