JB3 Wins Bellevue Jazz Festival Awards

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Congratulations to Jazz Band 3 for winning first place in their division at Bellevue Jazz Festival!

In addition, three of our soloists received outstanding solo awards:

Tenor Sax – James Pettis

Bari Sax – David Tabakian

Trumpet – Will Knight

Congratulations Jazz Band 3 and soloists!

RHS Jazz wins multiple awards at Essentially Ellington!

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Congratulations to RHS Jazz Band 1 for receiving multiple awards at EE!

  • Outstanding Sax Section
  • Jesse Beckett-Herbert: Outstanding clarinet
  • Elliot Halpern: Outstanding Tenor Sax
  • Porter Jones: Outstanding Trombone & Outstanding Soloist
  • Ravi Sharma: Outstanding Guitarist
  • Santosh Sharma: Outstanding Bass Clarinet & Honorable Mention Tenor Sax

Well done!!!

Related: Seattle Times article

Monterey Jazz Finalists Announced

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CONGRATULATIONS Jazz Band II and Vocal Jazz for being selected as Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival finalists!!

NGJF will be held in Monterey, CA from April 8-10, 2016. High school and college ensembles from across the country and Canada applied to compete. We’re excited to announce that Jazz II is one of only twelve bands selected to compete in the High School Big Band division and our Vocal Jazz is one of only eight ensembles selected to complete in the High School Vocal Ensemble division. Click here for more information.

Monterey will be well presented by Roosevelt at the competition with Jazz II and Vocal Jazz, in addition to Jazz III and our combos performing as Special Guest Ensembles at the Festival!

Congratulations also goes to our friends at Eckstein Middle School and Jane Addams Middle School for being selected as Middle School finalists!

Thank you to all our wonderful musicians and vocalists, Mr. Brown and Michael for all the hard work!

JB1 Headed to Essentially Ellington

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Jazz at Lincoln Center has just announced the 15 finalist bands to compete in 21st annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. Congratulations and great job to Jazz Band I and Mr. Brown–they are New York bound again this year!  Congratulations also to our friends at Garfield and Mount Si, who were also selected as finalists.