Music News

Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer and conductor Derrick Hodge will lead a masterclass at NCCU on Friday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m. in the B.N. Duke Complex Jazz Band Room.

Three NCCU jazz students and their professor joined artists worldwide at a bi-annual camp for cultural exchange through music, dance and theatre.

The university's Jazz Combo 1 performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival from Sept. 26-29, 2024, where they connected with top jazz musicians and influential business leaders supporting jazz education.

Drumming legend David Albert will perform alongside North Carolina Central University (NCCU) Jazz and Percussion Assistant Professor Thomas Taylor at the jazz studies program’s annual benefit concert Aug. 25.

The concert, produced by MidAmerica Productions, featured a stellar debut by the NCCU Vocal Jazz Ensemble, showcasing the talents of alumni, students and faculty from the university.

Watch the NCCU Sound Machine drumline entertain Japan's prime minister and his delegation upon arrival at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on April 12.

The renowned festival will come to campus in April 2024 during Jazz Appreciation Month.

Benny Pough is the Department of Mass Communication's latest Executive-in-Residence who will deliver an innovative special topics course in entertainment promotion and marketing for the spring 2024 semester.

One of the nation’s top jazz ensembles will serenade the NCCU Eagles at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the NCCU Student Center, 500 Nelson St.

The latest album by Lenora Helm Hammonds, D.M.A., called “Journeywoman,” concerns the odyssey of an archetypal woman who struggles with birth, death and self-definition.