About the jazz band:

Our award winning jazz band is typically comprised of 5 saxes (2 altos, 2 tenors and 1 bari), 4 trombones (3 tenors and 1 bass), 4 trumpets, set, piano, guitar and bass.  Instrumentation and numbers vary year to year.

Our Jazz I group has won numerous awards over the last 18 years.  The band competes every year at various competitions in South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.   The band also hosts its own festival called the Palace City Jazz Festival in February and an end of the year "jazz celebration" called the Palace City Jam in May!

SCHEDULE

12.9 - Winter Concert
2.8 - Palace City Jazz Festival
2.11 - SDBA State Conference in Brookings
3.15 - Spring Concert
4.7 - SDSU Jazz Festival
5.3 - Palace City Jam

PERSONNEL

JAZZ 1

​SAXES:
Jada Fritzemeier - Lead Alto
Paige Phinney - 2nd Alto
Christian Kremer - Lead Tenor
Lauren Hofer- 2nd Tenor
Mason Buenzow - Baritone Sax

TRUMPETS
Zachary Van Meter - Split Lead 
Atlanta Stahle - Split Lead
Allie Vermeulen - 3rd
Kobi Lutjens - 4th

TROMBONES
Jamie Payne - 1st
Drex Martinek - 2nd
Isaac Heide - 3rd

RHYTHM SECTION
Jesse Dodd - Set
Max Hart - Set
Aiden Beckstrom - Bass
Ella Mutziger - Guitar
Maddi Gerlach - Piano
Izzy Lambert - Flute/Aux


There were A LOT of great auditions this year...thank you for auditioning!  I will be reaching out to those of you that auditioned about starting a jazz 2 this year!  

RESOURCES

2021 JAZZ BAND AUDITION MATERIAL (CLICK ON EACH ONE TO DOWNLOAD PDF)
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Alto and Baritone Saxophone
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet
Trombone
Bass Guitar
Guitar
Piano
Drum Set

CLICK HERE for the backing track for "Birk's Works" for all saxes and trumpet.

CLICK HERE for the backing track for "Four" for
trombones, bass and guitar.

CLICK HERE for the backing track for "Yardbird Suite" for piano

CLICK HERE for the backing track for the improvisation portion for trumpet, trombone, alto and baritone sax.

CLICK HERE for the backing track for the improvisation portion for tenor sax.

Once you are done making your recordings, please make sure they are named with your name in them and upload HERE
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All-State Jazz Band

TBA

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