Roosevelt Jazz Band 1 opens for the phenomenal Marina Albero, an award-winning, passionate composer, pianist, and Yusa, the internationally acclaimed Cuban bassist, singer and composer at two shows on Nov. 3.
Marina Albero featuring Yusa and Roosevelt Jazz Band 1
Sunday, Nov. 3 @2:30PM and @7:30 PM
Buy tickets here.
These shows are sold-out to the general public, but we have a limited number to share with our Roosevelt Jazz families and fans! Tickets are no longer available on the general Earshot website, but can still be purchased through this link. Students $13.20; adults $38.50.
Our student musicians have been putting in the hours! In addition to attending their daily jazz class, 12th-grade trumpet player Chloe Mai (pictured here) and her bandmates have been holding morning practices and meeting frequently for sectionals in preparation for Earshot and other performance commitments. We’re so grateful for their time spent in learning their craft. This effort is one reason why Roosevelt Jazz is synonymous with excellent entertainment!
Chloe took a few minutes after a calculus test to share with us her favorite Albero song, “Coraliu,” that she’s learning for the Earshot shows. “Marina Albero’s music is so brilliant and full of passion, so it’s easy to hear the message of the song reflected in the sweet melody,” Chloe said in email. “It has depth you wouldn’t expect, and overall a very enjoyable song to play.”
Join us for Fall Jazz Night on Nov. 6th at Roosevelt High School. The first concert of the season features our vocalists and musicians from our four award-winning jazz ensembles. Please invite your family, friends, and neighbors!
Fall Jazz Night
Nov. 6 @730PM, Roosevelt High School Theatre
1410 NE 66th St., Seattle, WA 98115
Free.
Our students musicians, including from top left Walter Blake, Jack Blankley, Luca Chakravarti, and Ella Nakagawa, have been squeezing rehearsals in between challenging academic loads, sports and other music commitments, and more. This year’s stunning artwork depicting a chipmunk playing a trumpet beneath a harvest moon and at the foot of Mount Rainer was created by RHS student Clara Nickels. She received service hours for her work.
Vocal Jazz will meet Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings under the direction of Ms. Rebecca Woodbury, sponsored by Roosevelt Jazz Boosters.
Thursday, September 5 – Optional Meet the Director & Info Session
All interested students are invited to the orchestra room at 7:30am to meet Ms. Woodbury, talk through the audition process, and get excited about the year ahead for vocal jazz. All returning and incoming students are encouraged to attend!
Roosevelt Jazz musicians were joined by students from other Seattle-area schools for a hands-on lesson on jamming taught by Seattle-area musician Steve Treseler at The Sheridan Market on Aug. 18.
Listen to the students play “Funky Girl”
by Akiko Tsuruga, the final song of a jam-packed two hours of tunes and good times for the more than 20 students who turned out to learn how to play music by ear. Here’s the original “Funky Girl.”
Hosted by the Roosevelt Jazz Booster Club and The Sheridan Market, our jam was a learning opportunity and fundraiser for the Roosevelt High School jazz program. Steve is a saxophonist, composer, teaching artist and author who performs and leads improvisation workshops throughout North America and internationally.
“Jazz is social music, and the most authentic jazz experience is a jam session,” Steve told the crowd at the Sheridan Roadhouse. “Winning trophies is fun, but jamming, hanging, learning, and meeting new friends is what it’s all about.”
More than $250 was raised at the Roadhouse Jam. Our goal is to raise $350, which will pay for event costs AND a 90-minute clinic with a professional musician for one of our four ensembles during the school year. Help us reach our goal by donating today!
Roosevelt Jazz receives the majority of its financial support from the Roosevelt Jazz Booster Club. Boosters are Roosevelt High School families, friends and neighbors, alumni, small businesses, and lovers of jazz everywhere who help us support a public-school jazz education of the highest quality and make it accessible to students regardless of financial circumstance. Thank you for making this possible!
Through the collection of annual student dues, family and business donations, and money earned through events like the Roadhouse Jam, the booster club pays for three directors, as well as provides a stipend to the teacher of our in-school ensemble. Boosters also pay for ALL clinician workshops, an annual retreat, festival preparation, music charts, instrument upkeep, and offers scholarships.
The booster club is grateful to the ongoing support from The Sheridan Market and Roadhouse and its co-owners Ernesto Pediangco and Paula Goode.
We want to send a shout-out to Ernesto, who joined our students on the drums for a song or two, and our recent Roosevelt Jazz alumni–Jack Hawley (‘24, trumpet, voice) and Alex Phelps (‘24, trombone, piano)–who came out to support younger musicians, as well as our jam organizers, Booster Gretchen Ludwig and Roosevelt Jazz student Sky Van Scoyoc.
And a final and special thanks to all the students and their families who joined us from schools including, Chief Sealth, Eckstein, Garfield, Jane Addams, Lincoln, as well as students from Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace and Woodinville, for jamming, hanging, learning, and making new friends. Because, like Steve Treseler said, it’s what jazz is truly all about!
We are excited to announce that audition information and registration is updated and available. All students who wish to audition are asked to submit the online registration form, prepare the items described, and mark their calendars for the day appropriate to their section. Roosevelt Jazz is thrilled to carry on the tradition of high-caliber jazz education for students who are committed to learning!
