Oberlin-based organization that brings in leading musicians and performers from around the world for performances and master classes.
07/30/2024
Hosting a special Poetry and Jazz night of Penny Jo’s. I’m welcoming all singers, poets, and instrumentalists to a poetry and jazz slam.
Words are the music. Music is the Word.
Tonight at 8pm
05/19/2022
We are incredibly excited to announce that next week we will be hosting internationally renowned saxophonist and composer Melissa Aldana for a performance here at Oberlin! Her band will also include Mike Moreno, Kush Abadey, and Pablo Menares. This is one you don’t want to miss!
05/14/2022
Catch the show or stream tonight at 7:30pm!!
A performance by the Oberlin Gospel Choir, under the direction of Associate Professor of Jazz Voice La Tanya Hall Music !
This program honors the 50th anniversary of the Oberlin Black Ensemble and the 150th anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singer’s pivotal concert at Oberlin.
Learn more about the program and this event.
Masks are required. If driving to the concert, please review the notice below regarding navigating campus and parking at Finney Chapel.
Oberlin Conservatory Oberlin College
https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory/on-stage/live-webcasts/finney-chapel-live-webcast
05/11/2022
A performance by the Oberlin Gospel Choir, under the direction of Associate Professor of Jazz Voice La Tanya Hall Music !
This program honors the 50th anniversary of the Oberlin Black Ensemble and the 150th anniversary of the Fisk Jubilee Singer’s pivotal concert at Oberlin.
Learn more about the program and this event.
Masks are required. If driving to the concert, please review the notice below regarding navigating campus and parking at Finney Chapel.
Oberlin Conservatory Oberlin College
https://www.oberlin.edu/conservatory/on-stage/live-webcasts/finney-chapel-live-webcast
05/06/2022
On May 17th we’ll be hosting drummer, composer, and Oberlin alum Chase Elodia and his band at the Cat in the Cream! This is part of Chase’s album release tour so don’t miss it!
04/14/2022
Thank you to Kassa Overall and everyone who came out last night!
04/12/2022
Join us tomorrow afternoon for a performance-focused masterclass with Kassa Overall at 2PM at The Cat in the Cream!
04/11/2022
Kassa Overall, a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer, will be returning to Oberlin, his alma mater, on Tuesday April 12 — his first performance at Oberlin since 2019.
Kassa has been called “one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists” by Pitchfork. In the past three years, Overall has released four critically acclaimed projects: I THINK I’M GOOD (on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings Imprint), GO GET ICE CREAM AND LISTEN TO JAZZ, and the mixtapes SHADES OF FLU and SHADES OF FLU 2, tilting the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped, kaleidoscopic directions and gathering support from artistic visionaries including Virgil Abloh and Thom Yorke. Whatever the experiment, Overall remains faithful to the pocket of jazz drums in the tradition of his mentors, Elvin Jones, Billy Higgins, and Billy Hart, the latter of whom he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Filling out Kassa’s all-star band is the Detroit-based keys player Ian Fink, who plays with Shigeto, Karriem Riggins, and Common; Haitian-American percussionist Bendji Allonce, son of Kompa legend Herman Nau who has worked with Miley Cyrus, Ms. Lauryn Hill, and Roberta Flack; and Tomoki Sanders (they/them), a multi-instrumentalist from Japan and New York who plays a saxophone given to them by their father, the great Pharoah Sanders.
Presented by Oberlin Jazz Society
02/20/2021
The OJS general interest meeting is happening tomorrow! Pull up to hear about some exciting events we‘re planning for this semester, learn how to get involved, and bring your own ideas to share. We’ll meet on zoom at https://oberlin.zoom.us/j/2954345281. See you there!