Best College Orchestra

BigJazzFan
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 15:43:02 +0000

Well if we are talking Jazz Orchestras, the absolute top one is the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS (UNT), One O’Clock Lab Band. They have 7 GRAMMY nominations (most recently in 2015), plus numerous Down Beat magazine awards - no other college ensemble comes close to this type of repeated external validation.

Moreover, alumni from the UNT Jazz Studies program fare very well in the profession, with many of them are starting their careers with GRAMMY nominations under their belts; not many other music schools can say that! In the end, to have a college-level ensemble that so consistently achieves the highest level professional recognition, places UNT in a league of its own.