The Croatan High School Jazz ensemble is an advanced group of young musicians that perform in a traditional big band format. Anything but traditional, the band performs big band standards, be-bop era adaptations, latin jazz, and contemporary popular music.

• Appearances have included:
  Empty Bowls Charity Luncheon
  Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative Annual Meeting
  Relay for Life
  Coastal Jazz Society Concerts
  Glenn Miller Orchestra Concert
  Miss Croatan Pageant
  White Oak Elementary Spring Fling & Fall Festival
  Morehead Parks & Recreation Concert in The Park Series
  Northwestern High School Discovery Jazz Festival
  and more...
  
  Repertoire includes:
  Theme from Shaft
  When I Fall In Love
  How Deep is the Ocean
  Don't Get Around Much Anymore
  Paper Moon
  Orange Colored Sky
  Revival
  New York, New York
  If I Only Had A Brain
  A Day in the Life of a Fool
  Just The Two of Us
  I've Got the World on a String
  Thriller
  I Finally Found Someone
  Bye Bye Blackbird
  'S Wonderful
  This Can't Be Love
  and more...