First 3 tunes

Afro Blue

Sing sing sing

Four

Jazz All Stars First rehearsal!

Hello Everyone!
The time is almost here for our first rehearsal which will be this Sunday DECEMBER 14th from 1:30-4:30 @ Archbishop Wood High School. Please have your student bring their instrument and music (of course!) and a snack, please keep them peanut free as we do have some students with allergies.

Please Please Please sign up for the JAZZ BAND alert system on the AEmusic.org website it is not the same as the concert band call list! With all the in-climate weather we had last year it is really important to be able to notify you of changes to the rehearsal schedule.

-Mr. Myers

Listening Links

Hello Jazz All Stars,
Here is a list to the links for the tunes you should be practicing.

Four
Sing, Sing, Sing
Big Swing Face
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Chameleon
All The Things You Are
Summertime
Afro Blue
The Girl From Ipanema

Our first rehearsal will be DECEMBER 14th at Archbishop Wood High School. Please use the door located in the back of the school nearest the band room (two large silver doors) I will do my best to provide some signs to help. Rehearsal will start promptly at 1:30 and wrap up around 4:30. Parents are welcome to stay, there will be plenty of seating in the auditorium. Please listen to the tracks listed above and feel free to practice along with them. We will be doing our best to run through as many as possible! I look forward to meeting all of you! Thanks again

-Mr. Myers

Welcome to the Jazz All Star Blog! UPDATED TIMES

2014-2015 Jazz All Star

Audition Information

Hello Prospective Jazz All Star,

            My name is Mr. Myers and I am the conductor of this year’s 2014-2015 Jazz All Stars! If you are interested in auditioning for the Jazz All Star all the information you need is located right here in this audition packet, or jazzallstars.blogspot.com. This years auditions will be held at

NATIVITY of OUR LORD SCHOOL

585 W. Street Rd

Warminster, PA 18974

Sunday, November 16^th @ 1:30pm

It is important that you arrive on time for the auditions and sign in at the registration tables so we know you have arrived. The audition is a blind audition, which means you will be judged solely on how well you perform the piece attached to this letter, not on previous years experience, or seniority. Please be prepared to play any or all sections attached to this form. The Jazz All Stars rehearse prior to most of the Honor Band rehearsals as well as a few extra dates listed below. If you intend on participating this year please plan on attending ALL rehearsals, it is crucial to the success of the band that everyone be present for rehearsals and concerts. Many of the shows we play are listed below but there will be a few additional shows in the spring at some of the local Jazz Festivals that will be announced as we schedule them however, I have included any dates we currently have scheduled below. I look forward to working with you this year, best of luck to all those auditioning!

Sincerely,

Mr. Myers

Dates:

December 14^th- First Rehearsal @ Archbishop Wood High School 1:30-4:30

January 4^th- Rehearsal @ Archbishop Carol 1:30-2:30

January 11^th- Rehearsal @ Archbishop Carol 1:30-2:30

January 18^th- Rehearsal @ Archbishop Carol 1:30-2:30

February 1^st- Rehearsal @ Archbishop Carol 1:30-2:30

February 6^th- CONCERT @ Archbishop Carol

February 28^th-Mater Dei Jazz Festival

March 8^th- CONCERT @ Cardinal O’Hara High School

March 28^th- St. Aloysius Jazz Festival

Jazz Update

Hello Parents,

Sorry I have been radio silent for the last week or so! Our school musical was last weekend and completely took over. 

This weekend the Jazz fest at St. AA is still a go!!! The schedule for saturday night is posted below. We will warmup in room 7B I believe. Please stick with the Black shirt + fun tie dress code that has been working well! Mr. Norton has graciously offered us the Band room at St. AA to run a quick rehearsal from 5:00-5:30 then we will move to the warmup room to lock in tuning and song selections from 6:00-6:45

Unfortunately we have had to drop out of the St. Dot's festival the AOP String Festival has caused a few too many conflicts for us to attend so I had to notify Mr. Mayo that we will not be able to participate as expected. 

So in short... we only have one show this weekend and it is at St. Aloysius Academy! 

St. AA Jazz Fest Schedule

Arrive to Band Room with instruments out and seated ready to play by 5:00pm (5:00-5:30 rehearsal)
Move to Warmup Room-6:00pm-6:45pm
Festival Begins-7:00pm
Jazz All Stars Performance- 8:45 (warm-up in 7B)
Awards-9:15

I know this is a long day but I am really looking forward to seeing the kids perform again! It is always a blast, and St. Aloysius puts on a great event!!!

-Dan

Jazz Info

Hello All, 

The St. AA festival April 5th we may not be able to rehearse before hand. My school's musical is next week so I'm pretty booked up over the next week and a half. If I can coordinate a quick rehearsal at Wood that day or sometime the first week of April I will let you know ASAP.

As for the St. Dot's fest on April 6th we will perform 3 songs for our set. I would love to work Cold Duck time in for this event but we may not be able to if we don't squeeze a rehearsal in. Please have your students work on Cold Duck time with the recording on the blog.

The Jazz Fest at ABW on May 1st. Is a Thursday, I am currently working on a formal letter you can submit to your principals for permission to attend. The OCE said this must be done on a school to school basis but they don't expect any problems getting approval from the schools to excuse the students. The festival will begin at 10am and run all day till 4:30. There will be a break then the concert starts at 6:30 we will be performing first. Denis and George will sit in with the kids and solo on the songs with them. It is a really cool event. The kids should come ready to play and ready to learn! These are two of the best educators in the country and will be an awesome experience for everyone involved.

-Dan 

Harrisburg here we come!

Hello Parents! 

Another wonderfully successful concert tonight. Special congratulations to our rhythm section, and soloist award winners, as well as our two scholarship winners for the Lasalle Summer Jazz Camp! Our next gig is this Thursday March 6th in Harrisburg. We will depart from Archbishop Carol at 8:30am so please be sure to be on the bus by then. Again parents are welcome to ride with us. Lunch WILL be provided however students will special dietary needs may want to bring a brown bag just in case. ***Students with any kind of food allergy severe enough to need an Epi-pen please be sure to bring one with you. You may give it to me to hold on to or keep it with you but please be sure to bring it.*** 

We are still missing the registration fees for Jazz Band from 8 people. Please double check your records and make sure that you submitted your $25 fee for Jazz Band (this is a separate registration from honor band!) 

Please be sure to have your students look over "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "Cold Duck Time" These two tunes are listed on the blog with recordings. We will be rotating them into our set for the next competition. The kids did a wonderful job representing their schools and the diocese tonight. Thanks to all of you parents for helping transport them to and from all of these shows and rehearsals. Without you this band would not be able to exist!

Dress Code for Harrisburg: Black Shirt + Black Pants + Fun Ties! (ladies same dress code as tonight) we have been asked to forgo the wearing of Hats (sorry Jack) 

Thanks again!

-Mr.Myers

HARRISBURG INFO AGAIN!

-Busing will be provided and will leave from Archbishop Carol @ 8:30 (Please arrive 15min-20min ahead of time) 

-Lunch WILL BE PROVIDED (students with food allergies should pack something just incase!)

-Parents are welcome to ride along with us on the bus. 

-Please note that their may be security dog's at the check point. Students should not approach them or try to pet/feed them. They are working dogs and should be left to work. 

-Performance from 12:00-12:30 followed by a tour of the state capital,

-Return to the buses and arrive back at Carol by approx. 4pm

Parents are encouraged to write to your state reps and senators to come out to the rotunda to support music education in our schools. 

Harrisburg March 6th

Hello again! 

Here is all the info I have for the Harrisburg trip on march 6th!

-Busing will be provided and will leave from Archbishop Carol @ 8:30 (Please arrive 15min-20min ahead of time) 

-Lunch may be provided we are still waiting to hear back, so for now plan on brown bagging it unless you hear otherwise!

-Parents are welcome to ride along with us on the bus. Please let me know if your planning on coming so I can give Sister a head count!

-Performance from 12:00-12:30 followed by a tour of the state capital,

-Return to the buses and arrive back at Carol by aprox. 4pm

Parents are encouraged to write to your state reps and senators to come out to the rotunda to support music education in our schools. 

Please notify your school that your student will be attending a sanctioned Archdiocesan Event and should not be marked as absent. If you have any problems please notify me and I will contact your school personally. 

-Mr. Myers

P.S. I am trying to put together a short 1.5hr rehearsal at WOOD on saturday (4-5:30) before our festival. VJM is only 10min down the road and it would give us the opportunity to run though and warm up for the festival. I am waiting to hear back from wood as to weather or not space is available. Please keep and eye on your inboxes for more info on that!. Thanks again. 

Dates and Clarification

Hello Jazz Parents,

I wanted to send an email clarifying to everyone of our up coming concerts that we have committed to, or are attempting to commit to attend.

Feb 23^rd @ Archbishop RYAN

-1:30 Rehearsal

- 4:30 Concert

March 1^st @ Villa Joseph Marie High School 6pm (Jazz Festival)

-Some of you have responded via email however if you could fill out the form for me it puts everyone on one paper!!! 

March 6^th @ Harrisburg (Field Trip)

-I don't have much information on this trip for some reason... As I ave info ill pass it along.

April 5^th @ St. Aloysius Academy 6pm (Jazz Festival)

April 6^th @ St. Dorothy’s 2pm (Arts Festival)

TBA @ Archbishop Wood High School (Jazz Clinic/Festival)

I believe I have fixed all of the bugs with the google documents. I am really sorry that some of them have come through all strange. Try the three links above and let me know how they work. If you already submitted a form please fill another one out... i had to remake them all and couldn't keep the data previously submitted. I think i have been sharing the wrong link. Sorry for the learning curve!!! They just really help keep everything in one document when I do it right!

I would also love to do some service projects at some local nursing homes and or bookstores (Barnes and Noble etc,) but I want to wait until the weather warms up before we go committing to anything.

The kids have done an amazing job preparing some hard music in a short amount of time. They are some of the hardest working kids I have had the pleasure of teaching! I hope that we can have numerous opportunities to show off their talents

Have a wonderful saturday! See you all tomorrow

-Dan

Feb 23rd

Hello Parents,

Well tonight is the night! We begin our concert series at Archbishop Wood, this Sunday (Feb 23rd) We will be opening for the Festival Band at Archbishop RYAN. Mr. Stimson has been gracious enough to procure a rehearsal space for us at Carol. Which means we will be able to meet at 1:30 on sunday and run through our songs for the show. I am hoping to perform "The Chicken" and "Bye Bye Blackbird" if possible on sunday. The schedule for the day is below. 

We have also been asked to perform at St. Dorothy's art festival on April 6th @ 2pm. Please fill out this form if your student would be able to attend or not so I can give them a yes or no! This is a wonderful group of kids and I hope we can share their talents with as many people as possible, this is just another great opportunity to perform and be advocates for Catholic School music.

Can't wait to see everyone tonight at Archbishop Wood! Have a safe trip out.

-Mr. Myers

Sunday Feb 23rd Rehearsal and Concert Schedule: @ Archbishop RYAN!!!!

1:30 pm – Arrive – wear casual clothes

1:30 pm to 2:15 pm  - practice in Band room

2:15 – break

                2:35 – rehearse

3:30 – change into school uniform

4:00 – picture

4:30 – CONCERT

Jazz Update

Hey Parents,
I have not forgot about you or the blog! I have been trying to communicate more through the email and I apologize if you were not getting all of the info. I need ALL jazz activity fee's ($25.00) by the Feb 21st concert. If you already paid it great!!! The fee is separate from concert band so please make sure you didn't just send in one check, it is $25 for each ensemble. There are a few jazz guys that still haven't sent in their checks so please bring them to the concert.

Upcoming shows look like this

Feb 21st @ Archbishop Wood Concert
Feb 23rd @ Archbishop Ryan Concert
March 1st @ Villa Joseph Marie Jazz Fest 6pm
March 6th - Harrisburg Trip
April 5th @ St. AA Jazz Fest
TBA @ Archbishop Wood Jazz Fest

Make Up Rehearsal

Hello Parents,
You should have all received an email detailing the makeup Jazz All Stars rehearsal this Saturday Jan 11th from 9-12 @ Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster. Students can be dropped off and picked up around the back of school at the band room doors. (Middle of school silver double doors) Please have students bring a snack, I am gonna ask if you could please attempt to make it peanut free as we do have some students with food allergies. We will also have our rehearsal on Sunday from 1:15-2:30 at St. AA before honor band rehearsal. If you haven't yet please fill out the form for the makeup rehearsal so I know who can or cannot attend. Thank you!

-Mr. Myers

Rehearsal canceled

Hello parents,

Just received word from Mr. Stimson that rehearsal was canceled please do not come! St. AA is inaccessible via car die to the ice. I will post more info when I have it.

-Mr. Myers

Rehearsal today!

Hello All,

Please be safe traveling to St. AA we will begin rehearsing at 1:15 please arrive around 1pm if possible. Please drive with care as the roads may be icy. Very excited to meet everyone and begin rehearsing!! 

-Mr. Myers