The Texas A&M University-Kingsville Jazz Festival will return this year with 46 school jazz bands from across Texas. 

The festival is a two-day event held on March 24 and 25 in the Jones Auditorium. The festival includes competitions, concerts and a jazz clinic featuring Chase Sanborn, one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of the jazz world,

Sanborn will perform with TAMUK Jazz Combo I and TAMUK Jazz Band I & II at the 55th Annual TAMUK Jazz Festival.  Tickets for the Saturday Evening Concert are $7 per person and are available by calling the School of Music Office at 361-593-2803.