Jazz at Lincoln Center - Essentially Ellington


	In the spring of 2006, Jazz at Lincoln Center piloted its first Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festivals. The noncompetitive regional festivals are designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and to receive professional feedback from Jazz at Lincoln Center clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own communities. During the 2011-12 school year all members are eligible to take part in regional festivals. Participating bands are required to play at least one tune from the Essentially Ellington library and receive a post-performance workshop, soloist awards and written or taped adjudicator feedback. Spring 2012 regionals will be held: Thursday, February 23, 2012 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC For information contact: Jim Ketch, Director of Jazz Studies Phone: 919.962.7560 Email: jketch@email.unc.edu Saturday, March 3, 2012 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT- NEW FOR 2012! For information contact: Ray Smith, Director of Jazz Studies Phone: 801.636.0708 Email: ray_smith@byu.edu Wednesday, March 7, 2012 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA For information contact: Terell Stafford, Director of Jazz Studies and Chair of Instrumental Studies Phone: 215.204.8036 Email: tstaffor@temple.edu Saturday, March 24, 2012 Greenwich High School, Greenwich, CT For information contact: John Yoon, Director of Music Phone: 203.625.8025 Email: jsyband@gmail.com Saturday, April 21, 2012 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI For information contact: Rodney Whitaker, Director of Jazz Studies Phone: 517.432.2194 Email: whitak22@msu.edu Saturday, April 28, 2012 University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA For information contact: Jackie Lyle Phone: 337-781-1273 Email: jackielyle@gmail.com "The EE Regional Festival positively impacts students by giving them the opportunity to see their peers performing the same music that they've been studying." - Dave Yarborough, EE Regional Festival Participant Have an idea for an EE Regional festival in your state? Email us!