Welcome to Jazz Lab!!

For events please refer to the Band Calendar

Method Book
Standard of Excellence Advanced Jazz Method

Success in Jazz starts with LISTENING

Big Band 101!!!
You need to spend some time listening to this YouTube video.
Style, Rhythm Section Roles, Solos, you name it!
Listen and learn….  Click HERE

Permission Slips
JAZZ LAB – Permission Slip for all festivals
PIL Jazz Festival – Letter & Itinerary
West Salem Jazz Festival – Letter & Itinerary
Mt Hood Jazz Band Festival – Letter & Itinerary

2024 Jazz Ensemble Auditions

WATCH THESE!!
Kind of Blue Documentary
How KIND OF BLUE blew up the jazz genre
1959 – The Year that Changed Jazz

PLAY-A-THON SET
Blue Trane – Coltrane / arr. Sweeney
Beantown Blues Parade – Hirsch
Armando’s Hideaway – Rivera

JANUARY JAZZ NIGHT SET
St. Louis Blues – Handy
 – Reference Recording – Ellington Combo
All Blues – arr. Sweeney
 – Reference Recording – Kind of Blue Album
Armando’s Hideaway – Rivera
Four – arr Berry
 – Reference Recording – Miles Davis

WEST SALEM FESTIVAL SET

 

APRIL JAZZ NIGHT SET
C Jam Blues – Ellington / arr. Taylor
Blues Mode – Sigler

 

MT HOOD JAZZ FESTIVAL SET
C Jam Blues – Ellington / arr. Taylor
Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Waller & Brooks / arr. Lowden
Blues Mode – Sigler

AWARDS CONCERT SET