Giving Day!

Giving Day is the biggest annual WPI giving event! For a period of 1865 minutes (~36 hours) people have the opportunity to donate to support clubs on campus. Donations made towards WPI Jazz Groups allow us to continue to perform and gives us the opportunity to perform on tours like the 2023 New Orleans trip!

Please consider donating the WPI Jazz Groups using this link: https://give.wpi.edu/giving-day/?a=9474649

We greatly appreciate your support!

Jazz Symposium Performance

Join WPI Jazz Groups for our Jazz Symposium performance on Sunday 2/16 at 3PM in Alden Hall! This concert will feature Jazz Combo, Jazz Ensemble, Stage Band, as well as exciting guest artists!! Free admission. Email gr-jazzofficers@wpi.edu with any accessibility questions.

We hope to see you there!!

Fall Concert

Come support the Jazz Ensemble as they perform in the 2024 Fall Concert, presented by the Wind Band Association and WPI Jazz Groups. The concert will be on Saturday, November 9th at 3PM in Alden Memorial Hall. Hope to see you there!

2024-2025 Auditions

Auditions will take place in Alden Memorial Hall on 8/20, 8/21, and 8/22 from 11am to 4pm. Warm-ups are in the Perrault Music Room in the basement of Alden, and the auditions will happen upstairs in Room 210 Jazz Office. Please sign up using this link:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JI1lsfsGXoP1mzLE5n4gvysb0sS9qP9QaYeDSCwARsM/edit?usp=sharing

Below are the audition requirements for the jazz ensembles:

  1. play a prepared piece of your choosing
  2. 2 major scales of your choice, Bb blues scale
  3. improvise over blues progression or a tune of your choosing
  4. basic sight reading

Below are the requirements for the brass ensemble auditions:

  1. play a prepared piece of your choosing
  2. 2 major scales of your choice, chromatic scale
  3. basic sight reading

Auditions 2023

Auditions will be hosted on August 22 and 23 in Spaulding Recital Hall, which is in basement of Alden Hall. Auditions are required for those looking to play with WPI Jazz Groups for the first time or those looking to move to a different group.

Audition requirements are as follows:

  • A couple major scales + Bb and F concert blues scales
  • Prepared jazz piece of your choice
  • Short sight-reading
  • Improvised solo over 12-bar blues in a key of your choice or jazz standard of your choice
  • Range check for brass players
Click Here to Sign Up for an Audition

If you have any questions, please reach out to jazzofficers@wpi.edu!

Celebrate the Music of New Orleans with WPI Jazz Groups!

Join us for Life in the Big Easy this Sunday, February 19th at 3pm in Alden Hall.

In spirit of our trip to New Orleans at the end of the year, we are celebrating the music of New Orleans through performances by Stage Band, Jazz Ensemble, and Jazz Combo, as well as with GUEST ARTISTS Jerry Sabatini, Amedee Castenell, and Henri Smith.

There are no tickets required for this event. We hope to see you there!

WPI Jazz Groups is going to New Orleans!

We are excited to announce that WPI Jazz Groups will be traveling to New Orleans during the summer of 2023! In 2020, our trip to New Orleans was sadly canceled due to the pandemic. With travel restrictions lifted, we are bringing back this educational experience for WPI jazzers! We aim to make the New Orleans Trip available to every participating member by alleviating part of the financial burden. We’re asking for funds to help cover participating students’ airfare and kickstart our on-campus fundraising opportunities.

Donate to help support our trip to New Orleans!: https://gofund.me/3ade20b1