Roosevelt Jazz Band Community Outreach

3 December 2010 by ben.

On Friday, 3 December, Roosevelt Jazz Band put on a special pair of concerts for area 4th and 5th graders.  In each concert, the band played selections from the jazz version of the Nutcracker, as arranged by Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.  The band played a few selections, and then director Scott Brown solicited questions from the audience, some of which showed surprising insight.  One boy wanted to know, “What does that big saxaphone sound like?”  A girl asked a question about jazz improvisation, wondering if the musician played completely on their own, or interacted with other musicians on the stage.  That was probably the most insightful question ever asked at these concerts for the local middle school kids over the past decade.

And here are some photos I took of the event, click the one below to see the full archive: 

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