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Hoover High School: Hoover Jazz 2002 / Hoover Combo Jazz 2002

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2002

It takes only a few moments to realize that Glendale, California's Hoover High School isn’t home to your average garden-variety Jazz ensemble. “Epiphany,” the opening track on Hoover Jazz 2002, is a dazzling two-minute disquisition by bass guitarist Nick Klingenberg, followed by Regina Carter’s percussive “Mandingo St.” (featuring cellist Rachel Arnold, horn player Jason Thoms, vocalist Arlin Vartanian and an insisent Caribbean beat) and the Gypsy Kings’ rhythmic showpiece, “Vamos a Bailar,” with star turns for flute, trumpet, drums, keyboard, ...

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The Hoover High School Studio Jazz Orchestra and Jump Swing Band: Jazz in 1999

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2000

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 ...