Brand New High School Jazz Invitational Kicks off 45th Annual Elmhurst College Jazz Festival
Featured artists include University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band, Jeff Hamilton Trio, Mark Colby, Frank Greene, Denis DiBlasio and The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra.
Every February for the last four and a half decades, college jazz bands from around the world have flocked to the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival to perform for, and learn from, some of the greatest professional performers today. This year, for the first time, high school bands will get that chance too. To celebrate the Jazz Festival’s 45th year, the Elmhurst College Music Department, in conjunction with a grant from the Sylvia and William W. Gretsch Memorial Foundation, will sponsor the first Elmhurst College High School Invitational Jazz Festival Thursday, Feb. 23. The Invitational kicks off the Elmhurst College Jazz Festival, one of the longest-running college jazz festivals in the country. Five bands from schools around Illinois— …
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MIKE
7:30 am on Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Ok, Mr. Humes wants to be a state rep., well good for him. Aren't we all tired of the political sayings about more jobs etc. Just how is Humes going to that when you have deadbeats running the show in IL, guys like Madigan and Quinn screwing up the state to bring us the worst financial condition ever. Quinn - lay off the state workers and move on, why should the state be immune to layoffs, of the… more ›