Over 50 Miller Place High School student-musicians performed several variations of jazz music and popular songs from several eras for fifth grade students and their former teachers. Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School fifth grade students bopped to the beat as the high school students illustrated where a couple years of training and practice can take the budding musicians.
The instrumental jazz ensemble performed selections such as “Arnge Drank” and “Hablemos” by Mike Carubia, a latin tune “Pick Up the Pieces” originally performed by the Average White Band now arranged for a jazz ensemble and “Sonny’s Place” by Carl Strommen, a Nassau County composer. Fifth graders then listened to the vocal jazz ensemble perform a mashup of popular songs and “Evolution of Music” a capella, composed by the Pentatonix.
Photo 1: Miller Place High School vocal jazz student-musicians perform several variations of jazz music for the fifth grade students at Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School to celebrate music education at the Miller Place School District.
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Photo 2: The Miller Place High School instrumental jazz group aimed to inspire budding fifth grade music-students at Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School with a jazz concert in the Miller Place School District.
Photo 3: Fifth grade students from Miller Place School District’s Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School were treated to a performance by vocal jazz musicians from Miller Place High School and learned where a couple years of training and practice can lead them.
