Jazz is America's music and the U.S. Navy Band Commodores, the Navy's premier jazz ensemble, have been performing the very best of big band jazz for the Navy and the nation for 50 years. Formed in 1969, this 18-member group continues the jazz big band legacy with some of the finest musicians in the world. The Commodores' mission includes public concerts, national concert tours, ceremonial support in honoring our veterans, jazz education classes and clinics, and protocol performances for high-level military and civilian government officials.  

The Commodores are held in high regard nationwide by concert patrons and critics alike. The list of guest artists that have appeared with the Commodores reads like a who's who of jazz and popular music: Ray Charles, Branford Marsalis, Clark Terry, Grover Washington Jr., Chris Potter, Jerry Bergonzi, Eddie Daniels, James Moody and many more. They have appeared on television shows, played nearly all major jazz festivals and toured across the United States and abroad. In conjunction with the Airmen of Note (Air Force) and the Army Blues (Army), the Commodores even host their own annual jazz festival, the Joint Service Jazz Festival in Washington, D.C. As a versatile and relevant musical organization in the 21st century, the Commodores write and arrange much of their vast library of music. Their concerts are an eclectic mix of traditional big band music, exciting jazz vocal arrangements and fresh new instrumental music written specifically for the Commodores of today. This vibrant, dynamic musical group is constantly striving for musical excellence and the pursuit of new and exciting ways to communicate with their audiences.

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Music lovers of all ages will love the Columbia Orchestra’s new Classics at the Chrysalis concert! Presented in partnership by the Inner Arbor Trust and Columbia Orchestra, this exciting program features music you’ll recognize from Holst’s The Planets, Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody, Dvorak’s New World, and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

The Orchestra will introduce you to music from their upcoming season by Copland and Prokofiev and play some marvelous new works from around the world including Gabriela Ortiz’s nightclub inspired “Antrópolis,” an Indian-American work combining Hindustani and Western singing, and Duke Ellington’s homage to Dr. Martin Luther King. The concert will last approximately one hour and forty-five minutes including intermission. The park setting and short pieces on the program make this a perfect concert for the entire family!

Free tickets available here.

Join Columbia Jazz Band for a fantastic night of music. Celebrating the Music of the Great Big Bands features the music from the bands of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman with vocal tunes by Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Natalie and Nat King Cole.

This concert is part of the Chrysalis Cabaret Series in partnership with Columbia Orchestra / Columbia Jazz Band.

Tickets are FREE thanks to the generosity of our donors. We greatly appreciate your donations which allow us to provide these free programs.

Cash bar for beverages available for purchase. The event takes place at the Chrysalis in Merriweather Park at Symphony Woods. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show begins at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets aren’t necessary, but please register here if you plan to attend.

Join the Maryland Winds for Music of Stage & Screen, a part of the FREE Community Concerts at the Chrysalis!  

Maryland Winds is a non-profit organization and ensemble of professional musicians in the greater Baltimore–Washington, DC, area who are current or past performers with major symphony orchestras, premier military bands, music educators, or active freelance musicians.

Music of Stage & Screen is a free orchestral concert featuring brass that showcases some of your favorite music, now live at the Chrysalis.

Program - Songs of Hope

Program includes rousing marches and beautiful melodies to celebrate heroes, hope, and the American landscape. Composers include John Williams, Benny Goodman, Roland Sietz and so much more.