The Roosevelt Band Program currently has two performing jazz bands. 

Jazz I is the top performing jazz ensemble at RHS. This is an auditioned group consisting of a standard jazz ensemble. Auditions are held in May for the following school calendar year. Jazz I has performances throughout the community as well as in the kaliedoscope concert and the spring jazz concert. This group competes at the Mitchell Jazz Festival, the Northern State Jazz Fesitval in Aberdeen, the Augustana Jazz Festival, the Coyote Jazz Festival in Vermillion and the Optimist Jazz Festival in Brookings, SD.