DeKALB | Jazz trombonist Robin Eubanks will join the NIU Jazz Ensemble for a concert Thursday night.

Eubanks is the brother of The Tonight Show’s music director Kevin Eubanks and has collaborated with The Rolling Stones and Talking Heads. He is currently a tenured Professor of Jazz Trombone at The Oberlin College Conservatory.

The ensemble will play numbers by Duke Ellington and others before Eubanks joins them to perform pieces by Charlie Parker and Charlie Mingus, as well as some of his own compositions.

Floridian vocalist and NIU graduate student Travaulya Wallace will also be performing.

The concert is free and will be held at 8 p.m. in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center.