Student musicians jazz up Spring-Ford

Dizzy Gillespie once said, "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play."

Had he been able to attend the Spring-Ford Jazz Band Competition at the district's Ninth Grade Center last night, the late jazz legend would have seen a group of kids who are off to very promising starts in that learning process.

Jazz bands from Spring-Ford High School, Spring-Ford Intermediate School, and eight other school districts treated an audience to a collection of jazz standards and contemporary jazz works.

Student jazz ensembles from the Perkiomen Valley, North Penn, Lower Merion, Daniel Boone, Quakertown, Hempfield, Bethlehem, and Pennsbury school districts participated.