As a program, we have received 19 awards for excellence from DownBeat Magazine’s Annual Student Music Awards. All jazz bands and combos are placed through auditions held at the beginning of each ...

The deadline for the Jazz & Beyond art contest has been extended to Thursday, May 15. The contest is for Northern Nevada artists, including teachers and students. The winning entry will be featured on ...

The EJC band was founded as a musical family with a passion for mainstream jazz [Swing, Latin, Bebop/HardBop, Blues] repertoire of public-appealing & technically demanding tunes, but also with the ...

Susan E. Wagner High School, Sea View, competed in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 30th Annual Essentially Ellington High School ...

This exciting and versatile ensemble performs a wide variety of jazz charts from traditional big band to modern fusion. BC bOp!’s instrumental and vocal resources allow the ensemble to create a broad ...

It was the first time competing in person for the band and most students had little to no musical experience prior to high school.

All students play in one of the concert bands, and the jazz bands are filled by audition. Please note that we can’t guarantee every student a spot in jazz band. In their free-time every afternoon, ...

This 18-member ensemble is a favorite of younger jazz instrumentalists, performing an extraordinarily broad range of repertoire, from the earliest big band works of Ellington and vintage swing era ...