{{Short description|American jazz sextet}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} '''The Jazz Professors''' is a sextet of American jazz musicians who are all both working music professionals in their own right and faculty members of the Jazz Studies program at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida.<ref>[http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=51077#.UZEjASucVPw The Jazz Professors] AllAboutJazz.com</ref> They release albums annually on the Flying Horse Records label, a professional label within the school.<ref>[http://flyinghorserecords.com/releases.php website] – Flying Horse Records</ref> Their first two albums both made the JazzWeek charts, with The Jazz Professors: Live at the UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival topping out at No. 19 in 2012, and their second album, ''Do That Again'' (Flying Horse) (2013) charting as high as No. 6 nationally<ref>JazzWeek, [http://www.jazzweek.com/charts/1362416400/march-4-2013/ March 4, 2013]</ref>
The group performs with guest artists and orchestras, most notably Kenny Drew Jr. and Michael Philip Mossman.<ref>[http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/musician.php?id=51077 The Jazz Professors] – AllAboutJazz.com</ref>
==Roster==
* Jeff Rupert, tenor/alto saxophone * Per Danielsson, piano * Bobby Koelble, guitar * Richard Drexler, bass * Marty Morell, drums
==Former Members==
* Michael Wilkinson, trombone
==Discography== * ''En Plein Air (album)'' – (Flying Horse), 2015 * ''Do That Again'' – (Flying Horse), 2013 * ''The Jazz Professors: Live at the UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival'' (Flying Horse), 2012
==Website==
Flying Horse https://flyinghorserecords.com/
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jazz Professors}} Category:21st century in jazz Category:Jazz ensembles from Florida Category:University of Central Florida faculty Category:2012 establishments in Florida Category:Musical groups established in 2012