Honors Jazz Festival – New Info for 2013-2014
Beginning with the Fall of 2013, District 1 will only offer one honors jazz festival. The following audition selections list was compiled by a committee of teachers from both the east and west sides of District 1. These selections are for the Fall 2013 auditions only. A permanent rotation list will be finalized at a later date.
Improvisation –
All students will improvise over the Jamey Aebersold Vol. 2 “Nothing But the Blues”, Track 5 Fast Bb Blues
Lead Trumpet –
The following should be prepared in addition to the “Jazz Conception” etude
Hayburner from the Basie-Nestico Lead Trumpet Book published by Kendor Music
Begin at the measure before letter E and end on letter F
Etudes –
All instrumentalists will play the following etude from the Jim Snidero “Jazz Conception” book
Alto, Tenor and Bari Sax; Trumpet and Trombones –
Proxy (bass trombone should use the bass trombone book)
Piano and Vibes –
Proxy (from the regular book; NOT THE COMPING BOOK)
Written part for Intro and Chorus 1 and comp for chord changes provided for Chorus 2
Guitar – Proxy
Written part for Intro and Chorus 1 and comp for chord changes provided for Chorus 2
Bass – Proxy (from the “Bass Lines” book)
Written bass line for Chorus 1 and improvise a bass line for chord changes provided for Chorus 2
Drums – Proxy
Written out drum part for Intro and Chorus 1 and the lead sheet for Chorus 2 (treat Chorus 2 as if it is a big band chart; setting up figures and playing fills as the music dictates)
Demonstrate styles including but not limited to the following:
Swing, Samba, Mambo, Bossa Nova, Salsa, Cha-Cha, Afro-Cuban, Funk
Trade fours repeatedly (four bars of time and fours bars of solo fills) with any of the previously mentioned Jazz styles
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Dear PMEA District 1 Band Directors,
It’s my pleasure to host the combined PMEA District 1 Jazz festival this year at Pine-Richland High School. The auditions for the two bands will take place at PRHS on Monday, October 28, 2013 beginning at 5pm. There will be a directors meeting at 4:30pm in the band room. Remind your students to bring $5 to cover registration and a few bucks to purchase food at the snack table. There will be food provided for the directors in the band room. If your students are selected to participate, the two day festival will take place on Friday, Dec. 13th from 8:30am until 4pm and Saturday, Dec. 14th from 9am until the noon banquet and a 2pm concert. Our two guest directors are Eric DeFade, a renowned saxophonist and Director of Jazz Studies at CMU, and Dr. James Moore, an excellent trumpet player and Director of Bands and Jazz Ensembles at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Please access the PMEA District One website for detailed information concerning the audition materials. Site: http://district1.pmea.net/ (Click on Festivals and then Audition music) Pine-Richland High School can be found at 700 Warrendale Rd and directions can be found on our website under “About Us”: http://www.pinerichland.org If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to send me an email or give a call. Jim Stillwagon will also be hosting this event since we team teach the band program at Pine-Richland. Hope to see you all on October 28th. Sincerely, Brian Scott PRHS Band Director [email protected] 724-625-4444 x1896
A reminder of our festival application deadlines:
Senior High Festivals - October 20 Junior High Festivals - November 1 Click on the "Festivals" tab to see who is hosting each of the festivals and links to their e-mail addresses if you have more questions regarding individual festival applications. Results from the auditions held at Norwin High School on Monday, September 23 are now posted in the member section. The log-in information was communicated to directors at the meeting. Please keep this information confidential.
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