Livingston Student Jazz Band To Compete In Prestigious Contest

LIVINGSTON, NJ — Students from Newark Academy in Livingston will be among a select group of bands to compete at the 23rd Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival next month.

Newark Academy students will be among 15 bands that grace the stage of the Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City during the competition, which is set for May 10 to 12. According to a news release from Jazz at Lincoln Center, finalists were selected from 109 high school jazz bands across North America.

Each school submitted recordings of three tunes performed from charts from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington library.

Other competitors will include:

• Agoura High School (Agoura Hills, CA)
• Ballard High School (Seattle, WA)
• Beloit Memorial High School (Beloit, WI)
• Carroll Senior High School (Southlake, TX)
• Champaign Central High School (Champaign, IL)
• Dillard Center for the Arts (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
• Mountlake Terrace High School (Mountlake Terrace, WA)
• Newton South High School (Newton, MA)
• Osceola County School for the Arts (Kissimmee, FL)
• Roosevelt High School (Seattle, WA)
• Sun Prairie High School (Sun Prairie, WI)
• Triangle Youth Jazz Ensemble (Raleigh, NC)
• Tucson Jazz Institute (Tucson, AZ)
• William H. Hall High School (West Hartford, CT)

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