The Grammy-nominated Juilliard Jazz Orchestra (JJO) performs music from the entire jazz continuum with fire and an understanding of the music's meaning and context. Composed of bachelor’s and master’s degree students, the orchestra appears on the stages of the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Juilliard, Alice Tully Hall, Dizzy’s Club, and other venues. It has performed with the Princeton and Albany symphonies and has been featured at the Jazz Educator Network’s national conference. The JJO performs music by composers including Jelly Roll Morton and Bill Challis of the preswing era as well as works of the swing, bebop, and post-bop eras by composers including Mary Lou Williams, Duke Ellington, Eddie Durham, Tadd Dameron, Charles Mingus, and Ornette Coleman. The JJO also performs new works by alumni and students including Kyle Athayde, Joe Block, and Summer Camargo as well as contemporary composers including Wynton Marsalis (’81, trumpet), faculty member Ted Nash, Matt Wong, and Courtney Wright. Among the JJO’s guest conductors are Scotty Barnhart of the Count Basie Orchestra, NEA Jazz Legend Jimmy Heath, José Madera, Jon Faddis, Jennifer Krupa (Artist Diploma '03, jazz trombone) of the Navy Commodores, Bill Charlap, Bill Dobbins, and members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In recent years, faculty conductors have included Marsalis, Andy Farber, James Burton, Jerome Jennings, Michael Mossman, and Loren Schoenberg.