Mr. David M. Marshall, Director
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Somerset High School
625 County Street
Somerset, MA 02726
"The Somerset High School Jazz Band Festival provides a non-competitive festival experience for local high school Jazz Ensembles to come and perform for each other as well as to receive critique and suggestions for improvement from a professional jazz musician. "
The tentative schedule is as follows:
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. : Improvisation Clinic with clinician for all participating students and attendees.
5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. : Jazz Bands perform on the ½ hour and will be critiqued by the clinician.
(The snow date of Thursday, March 6, 2008 will take effect if school is cancelled at SHS that day due to weather conditions as the building will be closed.)
Admission:
$4 for adults / $2 for non-participating students and children
The Following Jazz Bands from the following schools will be performing at the Festival:
Dartmouth High School
Durfee High School
Joseph Case High School
Mt. Hope High School
Portsmouth High School
Seekonk High School
Somerset High School
Somerset Middle School
Tiverton High School
We are proud to announce Mr. Ritchee Price as our clinician for this year's festival!
Mr. Ritchee Price has been playing trumpet for 47 years. He has professionally performed in multiple different styles of music including big band, drum and bugle corps, classical, pop, funk, rhythm and blues, patriotic and Broadway. He graduated from Berklee College of Music and received the first ever Maynard Ferguson Scholarship Award and the Lennie Johnson Trumpet Award. He has been involved in drum and bugle corps since 1966 including time marching with The York White Roses Drum & Bugle Corps from 1966 - 1972, with the 1973 and 1974 Reading Buccaneers as a featured soloist, with the Rhode Island Matadors from 1976 - 1982 as featured soloist and drum major as well as with the Sunrisers in 1984 and 1985 as a featured soloist and became a horn-line instructor for the 1984 27th Lancers (DCI). As a professional jazz musician, Mr. Price was a featured soloist and 1st trumpeter in the Lionel Hampton Orchestra for 6 years (Sept.1985 - June 1992) and performed a 2-week tour in the Count Basie Orchestra as 1st trumpeter. He has also backed up many world-renowned musicians such as Nancy Wilson, Mel Torme, Lou Rawls, the Temptations, Jon Faddis, Dizzy Gillespie and Phil Woods. He has performed in prestigious venues like Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, The White House and at numerous events including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Festival and many Special Olympics Marathons. In 2005, he was named the Soloist of the Year at the DCA Drum and Bugle Corps Championships in Scranton, Pa. He is currently playing in a 15-piece big band called the Nightlife Orchestra and is the Band Director at Portsmouth Middle School in Portsmouth, RI.
Jazz Band Directors' Downloadable PDF Forms
| 2008 Somerset High School Jazz Band Festival Registration Form |
| 2008 Somerset High School Jazz Band Festival Announcement Form |
| 2008 Somerset High School Jazz Band Festival Ensemble Set-Up Form |
Please return registration form, ensemble set-up form, announcement form and registration fee by
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Mail Festival Registration Materials to:
Mr. David M. Marshall, Director of Bands
Somerset High School
625 County Street
Somerset, MA 02726
The Somerset High School Jazz Band is currently working on the following selections:
"BLACK ORPHEUS" Arr. Eric Richards
"THE INCREDIBLES" Arr. by
"OPUS ONE" Arr. by John Fedchock
"WE THREE KINGS" Arr. by Paul Clark
"A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS" by Vince Guaraldi / Arr. by Murtha
"HILL WHERE THE LORD HIDES" by Chuck Mangione
"MY FUNNY VALENTINE" Arr. by Dave Wolpe
"CORTEZ" by Jay Chattaway
Theme from "SESAME STREET" Arr. by Bob Lowden
2007-2008 Somerset High School Jazz Band Performances
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Musictown Concert Night - October 16, 2007 |
| "Cortez" - by J. Chattaway |
| "My Funny Valentine" - by L. Hart & R. Rogers / arr. by D. Wolpe |
| "Hill Where the Lord Hides" - by C. Mangione / arr. by M. Taylor |
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