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26th Annual Frank Mantooth Jazz Fest
26th Annual Frank Mantooth Jazz Fest
Date Posted: January 26 2009
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The 26th Annual Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival at New Trier High School is Saturday, February 7, 2009 at the Winnetka Campus of New Trier.
While the evening concert featuring the Count Basie Orchestra has been sold out for months, there is plenty of free and open to the public professional concerts and clinics during the day. Performing from noon to 12:30 p.m. will the the Ryan Cohan Sextet who will play selections from the new CD.
At 3 p.m. festival-goers can chose between these two one-hour clinics: "What is it that we do" by the rhythm section of the Count Basie Orchestra, or the historic "How To Improvise" by Jamey Aebersold. The daytime portion of this non-competitive jazz festival that brings in 45 high school and junior high jazz ensembles for participation will close with a 4 p.m. concert by the Army Blues jazz ensemble from Washington, DC.
The entire festival, including the evening concert by the Count Basie Orchestra and the New Trier High School Jazz Ensemble I can be see LIVE on NTJazz.com, or on cable TV channels 16 or 18 on Northshore. If you live within a few miles of New Trier you can hear it in stereo on WNTH (88.1 FM) Jim Warrick, director of the New Trier jazz program, is taking early retirement at the end of this school year. He began this festival the year after he took over the jazz program in 1982 and it has grown from six bands to the forty-five that will perform this year in what he calls a "highly non-competitive" environment.
"I believe it is most important for the kids to be the trophies rather than have kids chasing trophies with their musical skills", Warrick says.
"Music isn't a competitive sport and turning into a competition disrespects its glory." To see the live internet broadcast from 8:30 am. to 10:00 p.m., go to NTJazz.com.
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