The stage of the Piazza IV Novembre traditionally hosts big bands from all-grade schools, from university colleges to high schools. They mostly come from the States, but this year, there are two bands from the Netherlands.
This is a crucial section of music in the squares because these orchestras play good music in a dimension of cultured amateurism and tomorrow’s professional jazzmen grow among those sections. Here are the orchestras of UJ24:
- Utah State University Jazz Band (Logan, Utah);
- University of Montana Jazz Band (Missoula, Montana);
- Utrecht Student Bigband (Utrecht, Netherlands);
- John Hersey Jazz Band (Arlington Heights, Illinois);
- University of Delaware Jazz Band (Newark, Delaware);
- Jazz School Studio Band (Berkeley, California);
- Kansas University Jazz Band (Lawrence, Kansas);
- Antares Flare (Rotterdam, Netherlands).