The Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra or CUJO is Cambridge University's premier jazz ensemble, bringing together the best jazz musicians in the university. The group is 20-strong and focuses on performing modern jazz arrangements by the leading big bands of today, as well as a full repertory of standards, swing, and funk and a number of classic vocal charts.

CUJO has performed in numerous professional venues in the UK on national tours including the Bull's Head

The Bull's Head

The Bull's Head, Barnes, often referred to as "The Bull", is a London jazz club that was one of the first and most important jazz venues in Britain...

 in Barnes, won gold awards in UK-wide big band competitions and has collaborated with world-famous musicians, composers and arrangers such as Steve Waterman

Steve Waterman (musician)

Steve Waterman is a British jazz trumpeter, composer and educator.Waterman was born in Lincolnshire and educated at Trinity College. He leads a quintet and 18-piece jazz orchestra, holds several teaching posts...

 (2010), Issie Barratt

Issie Barratt

Issie Barratt is a British composer, known for her work in Big Band Jazz and Jazz Education.- Career :Barratt has been awarded commissions by the Philharmonia Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bohuslän Big Band, The PRS Foundation for New Music, Delta Sax Quartet, 4th Dimension...

 and Mike Gibbs (2009), and Mark Nightingale

Mark Nightingale

Mark Daryl Nightingale is an English jazz trombonist.Nightingale began on trombone at age nine, and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestrain his teens. He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985-88...

 (2007). It regularly performs gigs in Cambridge including numerous May Ball

May Ball

A May Ball is a ball at the end of the academic year that happens at any one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge. They are formal affairs, requiring evening dress, with ticket prices of around £65 to £200 , with some colleges selling tickets only in pairs...

s and participates in an annual varsity big band match against the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra

Oxford University Jazz Orchestra

Oxford University Jazz Orchestra or OUJO is an award-winning jazz orchestra based in the University of Oxford, England. OUJO is one of the three official intercollegiate jazz ensembles of Oxford, alongside the Oxford University Big Band and...

.

The band regularly tours abroad: in the 09-10 academic year CUJO played at the Villa Wolkonsky

Villa Wolkonsky

Villa Wolkonsky is the official residence of the British ambassador Italy in Rome....

 and Casa del Jazz in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 in April, and in July appeared at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva...

in Switzerland.