The Symphonic Jazz Orchestra Blog

With the continuing success of its Commissioning Prize competition honoring former Symphonic Jazz Orchestra (SJO) Co-Music Director and ASCAP board member, George Duke, the SJO is proud to [...]

Make a donation to the SJO by May 7, 2021 and you could win a 30-minute virtual one-on-one session with GRAMMY award winning jazz pianist and composer Billy Childs. We’re thrilled to [...]

While we may not be able to gather in-person for concerts right now, the SJO has launched its new YouTube channel where you can watch concert video samplers from our past concerts and family [...]

The ASCAP Foundation and the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra are pleased to announce Jihye Lee as the recipient of the 6th Annual ASCAP Foundation/Symphonic Jazz Orchestra Commissioning [...]

We’re so grateful to Daniel Szabo for waking up pre-dawn for a wonderful and wide ranging discussion with SJO Music Director Mitch Glickman about everything from his musical influences and [...]

On Tue. Aug. 4th, the SJO presented a Zoom webinar outlining its online school offerings for this Fall. Please click here to see the presentation. We are excited to announce that the SJO was [...]

 The Symphonic Jazz Orchestra has been working hard these past few weeks to transition its “Music in the Schools” residencies to online platforms. We are happy to report that [...]

Sunday November 17th at 3:00pm Carpenter Performing Arts Center 6200 Atherton St. Long Beach, CA 90815 Guest soloist Chris Brubeck, son of the late Dave Brubeck, performs a movement of his [...]

Click here to see ABC7’s coverage of the SJO assembly at Grape St Elementary in Watts. Over 4,000 elementary age students from across L.A. County participated in the Symphonic Jazz [...]

The SJO is proud to announce its 5th annual ASCAP Foundation/Symphonic Jazz Orchestra Commissioning Prize competition, which is open to all direct ASCAP composer members, with a submission [...]