Duke Ellington HS Festival - Lincoln Center. Any TBers?

[ryco]

My Alma Mater, Roosevelt High School, Seattle, has placed first at the Duke Ellington Festival at Lincoln Center, NYC.
I barely attended high school at RHS a million years ago, class of 74 1/2. haha
Then the Jazz Choir took first in a lot of festivals. Reno '72, '73 and '74.

Congrats!! They don't have a Jazz Choir anymore, but it's great to see their stage band upholding the tradition!

Also Garfield HS placed! Congrats all around!!


Me at Reno '71 RHS; 1st and Sweepstakes


any TBers participate in this event?

[Bruce Lindfield]

Just a suggestion - wouldn't they likely be Double Bass players - in the DB section?

[ryco]

Mebbe you're right!

When I was participating in these things there were no DBs.
Went to a Festival a couple of years ago and about half of the bands did have DBs.
Times have changed!

Being a BG I auto-posted there
Maybe a mod could move this over to the dark side....

[four2oh]

Roosevelt & Garfield HS have always had such great music programs.. always made me jealous, growing up on the eastside where the music programs were mediocre at best.

[BetterBottomEnd]

Heard it on the radio the other day. Second place band had an absolutely killer bass player.

[bassman314]

wow..

I remember seeing Roosevelt and Garfield at the Lionel Hampton Jazz fests back when I was in high school. It was ALWAYS a treat to see kids my own age who were that good.

four2oh, which Eastside you mean? Eastside of I-5? or Eastside of the cascades?

[ryco]

Originally Posted by four2oh

Roosevelt & Garfield HS have always had such great music programs.. always made me jealous, growing up on the eastside where the music programs were mediocre at best.

Kent-Meridian used to always have a strong jazz program, as did Green River CC.

Back when Garfield didn't even have a jazz program. It was Nathan Hale, Roosevelt and Franklin that were in competitions.

Those were fun times!!