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The Hoover High School Studio Jazz Orchestra and Jump Swing Band: Jazz in 1999
by Jack Bowers
The Hoover High School Downbeat Combo from Glendale, CA, one of four groups represented on this CD from ’99, performed in January with several other high–school ensembles at the 27th annual Conference of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) in New Orleans, LA. Director Greg Kupka says in the liner notes that Hoover has won nine Down Beat magazine awards in the last three years including six in ’99, which certainly speaks well for the music program there. The ...
read moreHemet High School Bands / Jazz Ensemble: Limited Edition / Among Friends
by Jack Bowers
The second of these two discs, Among Friends, showcases the 1996 edition of director Jeff Tower’s award–winning Hemet High School Jazz Ensemble No. 1 (with a number of impressive guests soloists), while Limited Edition, recorded in 1996–97, encompasses five selections by the Jazz Ensemble, another by the school’s Jazz Combo and two each by the Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble. Tower must be an outstanding teacher, as Hemet has for years been recognized as housing one of the country’s leading ...
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