The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival is an annual high school jazz festival and competition that takes place every May at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The festival is aimed at encouraging young musicians to play music by Duke Ellington and other jazz musicians.
23-632: Rose Hall may refer to: Rose Hall, New York City , a concert hall as part of Jazz at Lincoln Center . Rose Hall, Guyana , a town in Guyana Rose Hall, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines , a village in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Rose Hall, Oxford , a historic building, now part of St Peter's College, Oxford Rose Hall, Montego Bay ,
46-498: A previously largely unregulated field. The festival provided and official definition of conglomerate bands, stating that they need to follow a specific course of study, as well as a scope and sequence, all in addition to weekly rehearsals and scheduled public performances. All-Star, All-State, and All-Region bands are barred from competition, as are bands created for the sole purpose of competing in Essentially Ellington. When
69-651: Is an organization based in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center , the organization was founded in 1987 and opened at Time Warner Center (now Deutsche Bank Center ) in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra . The center hosts performances by the orchestra and by visiting musicians. It is home to the New York City Opera . Many concerts are streamed live on
92-570: Is charged to nominate and select "the most definitive artists in the history of jazz for induction into the Hall of Fame". Inductees have included: 2004 2005 2007 2008 2010 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 2023 2024 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival Every year Jazz at Lincoln Center transcribes arrangements of Ellington's music and sends them to participating high school band directors in
115-650: The New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera . The budget for Jazz at Lincoln Center was $ 4 million in 1996, compared to $ 150 million for the Metropolitan Opera. In 2016, its budget was over $ 50 million. Wynton Marsalis has been artistic director since 1987. Greg Scholl became executive director in 2012. Marsalis leads the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra , which performs in the Appel Room and
138-631: The Gerhard W. Vosshall Student Composition/Arranging Contest was added to the festival following a donation from the Vosshall family made in Gerhard's honor. The contest was renamed the "Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition and Arranging Contest" in 2016. Each year, a winning composition is chosen from submissions sent from the US and Canada and is performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The winning composer receives
161-492: The Let Freedom Swing program. The center runs a Middle School Jazz Academy, a High School Jazz Academy, and a Summer Academy, all in New York City, all of them with free tuition. Every year the orchestra tours and visits schools throughout the U.S. The Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival takes place every year at Jazz at Lincoln Center. The performing arts complex, Frederick P. Rose Hall,
184-466: The Rose Theater in addition to extensive international tours. Concerts are also broadcast live online. Educational programs are broadcast on the center's YouTube channel. Since 2015, the orchestra's albums have been issued on its own label, Blue Engine Records. The center distributes jazz curriculums to high schools through its Essentially Ellington program. Professional musicians visit schools through
207-505: The Seattle area have participated including repeat finalists: Roosevelt; Garfield; Shorewood; Mount Si; Edmonds-Woodway; Mountlake Terrace; Newport and Ballard high schools. In 2008, five of the fifteen bands to compete were from the greater Seattle area. Acknowledging the region's dominance at the competition, Marsalis, tongue only half in cheek, challenged the remaining schools/regions, "to do something about Seattle and Washington." In 2013,
230-617: The U.S. and Canada. During the year, band directors are sent a newsletter and given access to online educational materials to help with the arrangements. Students can email Jazz at Lincoln Center for help and send recordings of their band's finished performances to the Center for evaluation. These recordings can also count as applications to the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in New York City. Fifteen top bands are invited to
253-477: The center's YouTube channel. The center also presents educational programs in its home buildings, online, and in schools throughout the country. In 1987, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis was involved in starting the Classical Jazz concert series, the first series of jazz concerts at Lincoln Center. In 1996, the Jazz at Lincoln Center organization became a constituent of Lincoln Center next to organizations such as
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#1732855870785276-408: The competition and festival was scheduled to feature classic Ellington charts re-released once again. It was also announced on “Acceptd”, the official application site, that, due to the 25th anniversary the region system has been eliminated, and a total of eighteen bands will be selected, three more than in years past. The disbanding of the regional system was a one-year-only event, while the increase in
299-410: The festival, which occurs every May at Frederick Rose Hall in Jazz at Lincoln Center. The festivals ends with an awards ceremony for the top three bands, then a concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by Wynton Marsalis . In 2013 a new selection process was introduced, under which the top three bands from five national regions compete in New York City. Another major change made that year
322-427: The finalists are announced, clinicians are sent to each of the finalist schools to provide a jazz workshop and prepare the bands for competition. The clinicians are usually members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Notable alumni of the competition includes Grammy-nominated trombonist Nick Finzer who serves on the jazz faculty at UNT and founded The Outside The Music record label. Several high school bands from
345-510: The first time in 2020 were five international youth jazz orchestras, from Japan, Scotland, Australia, Spain, and Cuba. While the 2021 festival was originally scheduled to be an in-person event featuring music of pivotal arranger and pioneering electric guitarist Eddie Durham alongside the traditional Duke Ellington musical releases. However, the course of the COVID-19 pandemic meant that this arrangement simply wasn't feasible. The festival pushed back
368-515: The great house of the Rose Hall Plantation near Montego Bay, Jamaica, a tourist destination and setting of the legend of the White Witch of Rose Hall Rose Hall Beach , Jamaica [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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414-522: The numbers of bands selected remains ambiguous with regards to its permanence. However, due to concerns regarding the COVID-19 virus, Jazz At Lincoln Center announced that the “in person” aspects of the event were cancelled, with Wynton Marsalis presenting a Q&A session on the day of the festival, jam sessions, clinics, sectionals, concerts, and even the traditional cheer tunnel all being held virtually. No winners were announced, although honors to individual soloists and sections were given. Also present for
437-511: The opportunity to play Ellington's music while also receiving professional feedback. Starting in 2008, music by big band composers other than Ellington was used for the first time, three Count Basie selections. In succeeding years they have also released songs by: Benny Carter , Dizzy Gillespie , Mary Lou Williams , Gerald Wilson , Fletcher Henderson , and Benny Golson . For the 2013 and 2015 competitions, Essentially Ellington returned to its original format of six Ellington charts. After
460-400: The program began in 1995, it was offered only to school bands in New York City. During the next few years, the program grew to include schools in all U.S. states and Canada. Over 4000 schools have received materials. Beginning in early 2006, JALC announced the debut of the festival's first regional. The regional festivals are non-competitive and offer high school jazz bands of different levels
483-462: The release of new music until the 2021-2022 school year, and encouraged participating schools to submit one song from the entire Essentially Ellington library in either a synchronous or asynchronous fashion. Submission due dates were pushed back to March and the actual festival to early June. The 2021 festival also introduced new rules regarding the submissions of conglomerate bands (extra-curricular bands composed of students from more than one school),
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#1732855870785506-630: Was designed by Rafael Viñoly and is located on the fifth floor of Deutsche Bank Center (originally Time Warner Center). Rose Hall consists of three venues: Rose Theater, The Appel Room, and Dizzy's Club, named after trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie . The Hall also contains the Irene Diamond Education Center with rehearsal and recording rooms. The Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame is named for Nesuhi Ertegun , co-founder of Atlantic Records . A 60-person international voting panel, which includes musicians, scholars and educators from 17 countries,
529-445: Was the opening up of the main competition to allow conglomerate bands (extra-curricular bands composed of students from more than one school, often sponsored by local performing arts organizations) to compete directly with the bands affiliated with schools, instead of one conglomerate band being chosen to appear outside the competition as a special guest in an exhibition performance, as was the case previously. The 25th annual edition of
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