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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces 2012 Next Generation Jazz Festival Results

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
April 10, 2012

68 Big Bands, Combos, Vocal Ensembles, and Special Guests from 11 States Performed Throughout Weekend of March 30-April 1, 2012 Top Groups Will Appear at 55th Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21-23, 2012 Monterey, CA: The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce the results of the annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, celebrating the 42nd National High School Jazz Competition. A full list of top groups, scholarship and award winners can be found on the Festival's Web site. Results by Category ...
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Next Generation Jazz Festival Hosts America's Top Young Jazz Musicians, March 30 - April 1, 2012 in Downtown Monterey

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
March 3, 2012

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival Hosts America's Top Young Jazz Musicians, March 30—April 1, 2012 in Downtown Monterey 65 Groups from 3 Countries, 13 States and 14 California Counties are Participants Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival, a nonprofit leader in jazz education since 1958, is proud to announce its annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, March 30—April 1, 2012 in downtown Monterey. The weekend-long event, devoted to the future of jazz, includes the Next Generation Jazz Festival Jazz ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival Now Accepting Applications

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
October 22, 2011

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival Now Accepting Applications from Student Big Bands, Combos, Vocal Ensembles, Composers, Individual Musicians Next Generation Jazz Festival Includes Free Concerts, Clinics, Workshops, and Jazz Competition, March 30 to April 1, 2012 in Downtown Monterey Country's Top Young Players Compete for Performance Opportunities at 55th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21-23, 2012 Next Generation Jazz Festival Jazz Competition Open to Middle School, High School, Conglomerate School, and College Level Musicians and Vocalists Ambrose Akinmusire ...
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Dysfunctional: Life Journeys of a Second Generation Jazz Musician

Source: The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
September 8, 2011

Dysfunctional is the curious title of a gritty and revealing autobiography written figurative minutes before the passing on to ancestry of a Kansas City treasure, master saxophonist Ahmad Alaadeen. Subtitled “life journeys of a second generation jazz musician," that's precisely where Alaadeen places himself in the jazz lineage—among the second generation of musicians who came up through the world of music, likely because he was among the generation that came up at the tail end of the so-called swing era ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra Performs at 74th Annual Carmel Bach Festival, July 24, 2011

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
July 1, 2011

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra Performs at 74th Annual Carmel Bach Festival, July 24, 2011 Big Band Bach Features Renowned National High School All-Star Big Band, Joe Lovano, and Alice Kirwan Murray Bach Festival Performance Kicks Off NGJO's 11-Day West Coast Tour to Carmel, San Francisco, Seattle and Port Townsend, Washington; Monmouth, Oregon; San Diego, and Los Angeles, July 23—August 2, 2011 Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival® and the Carmel Bach Festival are proud to announce their ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members of 2011 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
May 25, 2011

21 High School Musicians from California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Toronto, Canada Comprise the Festival's Renowned National High School All-Star Big Band NGJO's 11-Day West Coast Tour Includes Performances in Carmel, San Francisco, Seattle, Port Townsend, Portland, San Diego and Los Angeles, July 23—August 2, 2011 NGJO Performs with Joshua Redman, Benny Green and Donny McCaslin at 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 18, 2011 May 16, 2011; Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Next Generation Jazz Festival Results

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
April 7, 2011

The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce the results of the annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the National High School Jazz Competition. A full list of top groups, scholarship and award winners can be found on the Festival's Web site. Major funding for the 2011 Next Generation Jazz Festival was provided by The Hearst Foundations and AT&T Foundation. This program is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival April 1 - 3 in Downtown Monterey

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
March 16, 2011

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival Celebrates 40th Anniversary

America's Top Young Jazz Musicians from 10 States Compete for Spot on Monterey Jazz Festival Stages

Monterey Jazz Festival Artist-In-Residence and Two-Time Grammy-Nominee Joshua Redman to Participate

The Monterey Jazz Festival, a nonprofit leader in jazz education since its inception in 1958 and JazzTimes Readers' Poll multi-year winner for Best Jazz Festival, is proud to announce its annual Next Generation Jazz Festival, April 1ש, 2011 in downtown Monterey. The weekend-long ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Festival Now Accepting Applications from Student Big Bands, Combos, Vocal Ensembles, Composers, Individual Musicians

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
November 4, 2010

7th Next Generation Jazz Festival Jazz Competition Open to Middle School, High School, Conglomerate Bands, and College Level Musicians and Vocalists Country's Top Young Players Compete for Performance Opportunities at 54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 16-18, 2011 Next Generation Jazz Festival Includes Free Concerts, Clinics, Workshops, and Jazz Competition, April 1-3, 2011 in Historic Downtown Monterey Award Winning Saxophonist, Joshua Redman, Named Monterey Jazz Festival's Artist-In-Residence for 2011 Monterey, CA; The Monterey Jazz Festival, a leader in jazz education ...
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Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra Performs at New York City's Jazz Standard, July 7, 2010

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
June 27, 2010

Jazz Standard Performance is Finale of 10-Day Tri-C to NYC North American Tour

Tour Includes Shows in Cleveland, and at the Toronto and Montreal Jazz Festivals

21 High School Musicians from California, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin Comprise MJF's Renowned National Big Band