Students interested in a jazz ensemble audition should contact Bernard Scavella bernard.scavella@northwestern.edu.
Faculty Conductors
Derrick Gardner
Interim Director of Jazz Studies
Jazz trumpeter Derrick Gardner, inspired by the finest hard-blowing funky bop bands of the 1960s, is working to extend that great tradition as a performer, composer, and arranger.
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Lecturer
Darius Hampton is currently a member of the South Side Big Band and Orquesta Sabor Latino.
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