JAZZ ENSEMBLE
AUDITIONS
Tues. 10/7/09 or Wed. 10/8/09 7-9pm
In the Chorus Room
Audition Info:
All interested students must prepare a Jazz Style solo, ( Mr. Cassera has material if you need material).
Improvisation is optional on ‘F’ or ‘Bb’ Blues.
Sight-reading.
Additional requirements for Brass; Play chromatic scale to highest note in eighth notes at m.m. 80. Also repeatedly hit highest note 5 times.
Additional requirements for Saxophones; Play chromatic scale to highest note in eighth notes with m.m. 80. Also play octave slurs in half notes
at m.m. 80.
Additional requirements for Piano, Guitar, and Bass; Comping chord progressions in the style of blues, swing and funk.
Additional requirements for Percussion; Play styles in tempo and trade four solo measures with four measures in time, repeatedly. Styles should include a ballad, swing, rock, funk, bossa nova, samba and jazz waltz.
