Season Series Event Schedule
Cleveland Jazz Orchestra 2025-2026 Season Series
Maltz Performing Arts Center
This season, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra is honoring tradition and embracing the future, with a mix of genre bending grooves! We are celebrating America’s music and its evolution, starting in Harlem at the Cotton Club; traveling overseas to the Hot Club of France; spreading coast to coast with Cool Jazz, Bebop, and Fusion; and infusing its essence into the music of today. With special collaborations and featured artists, there is something for every music lover to enjoy.
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Totally Trumpet, with Terrell Stafford
Saturday, September 27, 2025
We kick off our season welcoming the terrific trumpet talent, Terell Stafford. Called “one of the great players of our time” by McCoy Tyner, Stafford is an incredibly gifted and versatile player and equally inventive writer. In addition to his own projects, he has appeared with Tyner, Diana Krall, the Clayton/Hamilton Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band, Matt Wilson, Jimmy Heath, Benny Golson and many others.
Stardust – The Songs of Hoagy Carmichael
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Our 10th annual collaboration with The Musical Theater Project celebrates the songs of Hoagy Carmichael. A jazz legend, Hoagy composed (and often wrote lyrics for) a beloved chapter of the Great American Songbook besides writing for many films. Just think of “Skylark,” “Georgia on My Mind,” “Heart and Soul” and the Oscar-winning “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening.”
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"Clubbin’ Unchained" – Django and the Duke
Friday, March 20, 2026
We intertwine the remarkable early brilliance of Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club with Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappelli's “Hot Club of France.” Violinist Reed Simon will help us create the “CJO Club” for an evening with infectious grooves and great arrangements.
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Woodstock ‘26 – Sly, Santana, & Janis
Friday, May 1, 2026
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969 has still proven to be the most seminal gathering of rock, blues and jazz fusion in popular music history, and countless outdoor festivals try to emulate this vibe every summer. With the help of Mary Bridget Davies, we celebrate the sounds of Sly, Santana and Janis as we create our own jazz infused Woodstock experience.
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