This Sunday, Latin Jazz filled Cochran Chapel as the Philips Academy Jazz Band played its final concert of the year. While the Chapel was noticeably less full than usual, it was filled with friends, parents and grandparents happily tapping their feet to the rhythm, itching to dance along.

“I think the concert went really well, there was just something so powerful about being together onstage playing the music that we love,” said saxophonist Arianna Chang ’13.

The opening piece...