Miami's Community Arts Program (CAP)
ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble
Jazz at Lincoln Center
2013 Essentially Ellington Finalist!
On February 20, 2013 Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the
finalist bands for its prestigious 18th Annual Essentially Ellington High
School Jazz Band Competition & Festival. With over 100
recordings submitted from bands across the United States and Canada,
Miami's Community Arts Program (CAP) ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble is among
only 15 finalists chosen, and the only after-school jazz band
chosen from throughout the competition's Region 4: Alabama, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, Washington D.C and West Virginia.
The Community Arts Program (CAP) ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble will
compete and participate in workshops, jam sessions, and more, during a
three-day Competition & Festival in New York City May 10 through 12. The
three top-placing bands perform with Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln
Center, Wynton Marsalis, as guest soloist, followed by a performance by the
15-piece Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra whose members serve as mentors for the
finalist bands throughout the weekend. The Festival's finale is an awards
ceremony honoring outstanding soloists, sections and the top three bands. The
Competition & Festival is the culmination of the annual Essentially
Ellington High School Jazz Band Program (EE) from Jazz at
Lincoln Center (JALC), part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
The Community Arts Program (CAP) is an after-school
program from the historic Coral Gables Congregational Church (3010 De
Soto Boulevard, across from the Biltmore Hotel). The CAP ALL-STAR Jazz
Ensemble was formed in 2009 and is comprised of a diverse group of serious,
career-minded jazz musicians (ages 13-18) from schools throughout South
Florida. Conducted by Daniel Strange, the ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble
rehearses 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday evenings, August through May, at the
historic Coral Gables Congregational United Church of Christ. The ALL-STAR Jazz
Ensemble experience is designed to sharpen sight reading, style,
technique, improv, rhythm, recording studio skill, college prep and career
development through the practical study and performance of jazz repertoire that
spans the standards to newly-composed works.
Over the past four seasons, the CAP ALL-STAR Jazz
Ensemble's noted highlights include performances concert throughout
Miami-Dade, three one-hour live radio performances on Miami's
only "serious jazz" station, WDNA 88.9FM and the
opening acts for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Count Basie
Orchestra. Under the Community Arts Program's new record label, CAP
Records, the ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble released its first recording, With a Swing!,
in August 2011.
The
entire Community Arts Program (CAP) experience offers
Saturday Music Classes with instrument and music theory
instruction for youth (ages 8-18). These classes are in addition to its
Thursday evening "active-learning" ensembles that, with the
ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble, include the Junior and
Intermediate Young Musicians' Orchestras and Advanced
Chamber Ensemble. An additional CAP active-learning component is
CAP Records. The CAP Records label provides a platform for CAP
students' recording projects. With this, CAP students learn the art of studio
musicianship, recording production and marketing in the 21st century. The
Community Arts Program also presents its renowned Summer Concert
Series, begun in 1985, which brings world-renowned classical and jazz
artists to South Florida. Summer Concert Series artists remain a day and provide
the CAP Young Musicians' Summer Master Classes to Community
Arts Program students and the community at large. In all, these bring together
the mission of the Community Arts Program: To serve a diverse
community by providing educational and culturally-enriching experiences through
the transforming power of the arts.
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