The university’s Director of Bands and Professor of Music Shelby ... Like Florida A&M, Jackson State earned their spot at Coachella through Scott’s “4×4” contest. The band’s challenge ...

One of the show’s stars, Tramell Tillman, is a graduate of Jackson State University. The show’s director and executive producer approached Tillman about the marching band sequence during the ...

On the Jackson State campus, their social status ... racial barriers by becoming the first African-American band director at the University of Minnesota in 1976. When he arrived, the marching ...