The Studio Big Band and special guest Terell Stafford with Shenandoah Conservatory jazz faculty culminate Essentially Ellington, a daylong regional high school band festival produced in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC).
Acclaimed trumpeter Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted and versatile player; he combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of spirited and adventurous lyricism. Stafford’s exceptionally expressive and well-defined musical talent allows him to dance in and around the rich trumpet tradition of his predecessors while making his own inroads.
This concert is part of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington regional jazz festival at Shenandoah Conservatory. Through its annual Essentially Ellington program, JALC co-produces education-focused festivals designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers. Participating bands receive professional feedback from JALC clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own backyard.
This concert is free and open to the public; no tickets required.
Essentially Ellington
Through its annual Essentially Ellington program, Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) co-produces education-focused festivals designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers. Participating bands receive professional feedback from JALC clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own backyard.
