As it has been for several years, the stage of Umbria Jazz hosts big bands from all-grade schools, from university colleges to high schools. Most of them come from the USA. 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 UJ25:
- The University Of South Carolina Faculty Jazz Combo (Columbia, South Carolina)
- Left Bank Big Band (Columbia, South Carolina)
- George Mason University Jazz Combo I (Fairfax, Virginia)
- Jazz House Kids Big Band (Montclair, New Jersey)
- Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Jazzschool Berkeley Ensemble (Berkeley, California)