The Jazz Lab Band will host a concert featuring the work of famous composers in the Dvorak Concert Hall Tuesday.

The band will play an assortment of music by composers such as Duke Ellington, Thad Jones and Sammy Nestico, said Michael Stryker, director of the Jazz Lab Band.

The band consists of university students of all backgrounds, not necessarily music majors, who auditioned for a place in the band during the fall 2001 semester.

Samuel Fagaly, head of the jazz studies department, will play tenor saxophone as the band’s guest soloist.

The song list will include “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” by Ellington, “To You” by Jones and “Pressure Cooker” by Nestico, during which Fagaly will perform his solo.

“We always try to play music from important arrangers,” Stryker said. “It is a variety of music for the audience to hear, experience and educate themselves with.”

Another section of the jazz band, led by Fagaly, will also perform.

Admission is free for the concert. It will begin at 7:30 p.m.