KPLU School of Jazz - Volume 3
KPLU School of Jazz - Volume 3 features 12 of the Puget Sound area's finest high school bands performing with jazz professionals including Lance Buller, Thomas Marriott, David Joyner, Darren Motamedy, Gary Shutes, Steve Korn, Dave Keim, Michael Brockman, David Marriott, Brad Allison, Mark Taylor, and Travis Ranney. All proceeds benefit Western Washington school music programs. KPLU thanks The Boeing Company, Red Kelly Jazz Foundation, Verity Credit Union, and Cornish College of the Arts for their generous support of this year's project.
KPLU School of Jazz – Volume 3 is also made possible thanks to the support of Origin Records.
You can purchase the CD for $12.00 at these local retail stores: Mills Music, Easy Street Records, Sonic Boom, Silver Platters, Bud's Jazz Records, and Rainy Day Records (Olympia). You can also order KPLU School of Jazz – Volume 3 online at http://www.sonicboomrecords.com/. A limited edition poster of this year's CD cover art by Nancy Peacock is available for $10.00. Please contact Beverly James at (206) 922-1030 or at bjames@kplu.org.
Tune into "Jazz Northwest" on Sunday, May 13 at 1 p.m. on KPLU when Jim Wilke will feature a recording of the KPLU School of Jazz - Volume 3 CD concert that took place April 16, 2007 at Meany Hall. You can also podcast the show.
Jazz drummer Steve Korn has been one of the professional mentors on the School of Jazz project for the past three years. In 2007, he also became our official School of Jazz photographer. You can check out his amazing photographs of the bands and mentors working together in the recording studio at www.SteveKorn.com/SOJ.
KPLU School of Jazz Project Overview
In 2005, as part of its continuing support of music education in the schools, KPLU developed a mentoring program involving bands from 10 high schools and one middle school, and the participation of 11 local jazz professionals. The fruits of this partnership yielded KPLU School of Jazz. The CD project was made possible through a grant from The Boeing Company.
Due to the success of the inaugural School of Jazz project – to the tune of over $18,000 raised – Boeing renewed its grant in 2006, culminating in the release of KPLU School of Jazz - Volume 2, which was released April 25, 2006. The 2006 CD project focused exclusively on high school jazz bands including all of the high school bands who participated in the 2005 project, as well as two newcomers to the project.
KPLU School of Jazz – Volume 3, features some of the same high school jazz bands and introduces three newcomers to the project. The complete list of 2007 participants: Stadium High School (Tacoma), North Thurston High School (Olympia), Kentridge High School (Kent), Roosevelt High School (Seattle), Squalicum High School (Bellingham), Mercer Island High School (Mercer Island), Newport High School (Bellevue), Shorewood High School (Shoreline), Mountlake Terrace High School (Mountlake Terrace), Inglemoor High School (Bothell), Edmonds Woodway High School (Edmonds), and Garfield High School (Seattle).
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