ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ FESTIVAL
2024 ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
JAZZ FESTIVAL
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2024 8AM – 4PM
Festival Schedule:
8:00 AM: Arrival & Set Up
8:30 AM - 12:15 PM: Performances and Clinics
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM: Lunch (Provided)
Students: Jam Session
Band Directors: Lunch & Learn
1:00 PM - 2:15 PM: Performances and Clinics
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM: Sectional Master Classes
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Awards & Dismissal
REGISTRATION AND REQUIREMENTS
At this time registration is now closed as we have reached our max capacity. If you have any questions please contact TillesArtsEd@liu.edu or 516-299-2388.
Participating schools are required to join Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2023-2024 Essentially Ellington Program. By joining the free program, directors will receive original big band transcriptions from JALC. New members can join the program online by visiting jazz.org/ee and completing an online membership form. For questions about the Essentially Ellington program contact Oliver Beardsley, JALC Manager of Student and Family Programs at 212-258-9861 or ee@jazz.org.
Performing Jazz Band Requirements:
High School Jazz Bands will be required to perform 2-3 selections in a 20 minute window (Including set-up, tuning, and exit from the stage) at the festival as follows:
- One score must be a swing tune.
- One score must be a ballad.
- One score to be a director’s choice from any genre.
- One of these 2-3 selections, whether swing, ballad, Latin, etc., must be from either the current repertoire or previous titles listed in the JALC Essentially Ellington library.
- All eligible charts from the Essentially Ellington library are published by Warner Bros. Publications, Alfred Publishing Co. or E Jazz Lines and prominently feature an Essentially Ellington logo on the cover of the conductor’s score. Remember directors, that in addition to the charts received through membership with the 2023-24 Essentially Ellington program, you may also elect to perform any of the previously published charts.
For a complete list of all titles in the Essentially Ellington library, visit jazz.org/ee and select “Library” from within the red “Resources” tab on the right.
Procedures for Bands:
Each band will receive 20 minutes total for their performance. This includes set-up, tuning, and exit from the stage. A warm-up room will be available to each band 20 minutes prior to their scheduled performance time. Adjudicators will provide a critique of your performance and provide numerical ratings on a festival adjudication sheet. Directors are not required to provide adjudicators with music scores. We prefer our judges to listen and observe rather than be focused too much on viewing and studying a printed music score.
We do require that each director complete the following google form by January 5, 2024:
Post-performance Clinic
Each jazz band will receive a 20-minute clinic with one of our Essentially Ellington clinicians.
Performing Combo Requirements
High School Jazz Combos will be required to perform two selections with one composition being a blues. A third selection is optional if it can be placed within the performance time period. We strongly encourage everyone in the combo being offered the opportunity to improvise.
Each combo will receive 20 minutes total for their performance. This includes set-up, tuning, performance, and exit from the stage. A warm-up room will be available to each band 20 minutes prior to their scheduled performance time. Adjudicators will provide a critique of your performance and provide numerical ratings on a festival adjudication sheet. Directors are not required to provide adjudicators with music scores. We prefer our judges to watch and listen rather than be focused too much on a printed music score.
We do ask that each combo director complete the following google form by January 5, 2024:
Post-performance Clinic Each combo will receive a 20 minute post-performance clinic.
Clinicians and Adjudicators will include professional musicians from Jazz at Lincoln Center as well as faculty from the department of music at LIU Post.
The Department of Music at LIU Post provides a dynamic, intensive, and supportive environment that nurtures students' talents as music educators, scholars, performers, songwriters, and music industry entrepreneurs. Our conservatory-style program, within a liberal arts university, brings a diverse array of performance and academic opportunities. We offer a full curriculum of bachelor’s degree programs taught by more than 40 nationally and internationally recognized performers, conductors, composers, researchers, and music educators. Undergraduate degree programs include the B.S. in Music, the B.F.A in Music Technology, Entrepreneurship & Production, and the B.M. in Music Education. The Department of Music offers a variety of public performance opportunities to showcase students’ skills and talents, including solo student recitals, workshops, masterclasses, and concerts both on campus and at major concert halls in New York City and abroad.
Payments are accepted via BOCES Arts in Education, by check, credit card or purchase order.
If paying by check, please make checks payable to “Long Island University” and mail to:
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548-1300
Attn: Megan Montemurro
Tilles Center Jazz Programming is made possible, in part, by Sandy and Eric Krasnoff.