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The 2010 FRANK MANTOOTH
JAZZ FESTIVAL at
NEW TRIER HIGH SCHOOL  

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

OUR 27th YEAR!
(List of  past  jazzfest  performers) 

This year's festival will feature...
evening performance by The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra
afternoon performance by the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble, noon performance by the John Wojciechowski Quintet
and of course, the Jazz Director's Big Fat Band!

2009 Archives- Featuring The Count Basie Orchestra directed by Bill Hughes, The Army Blues, the Ryan Cohan Sextet, and a special "How To Improvise" masterclass by Jamey Aebersold

2008 Archives- Featuring The Chicago Jazz Ensemble with Jon Faddis and Spam All-Stars, Indiana University Jazz Ensemble

2007 Archives- Featuring the Tito Puente Alumni All-Star Big Band 
with Eddie Palmieri

2006 Archives- Featuring Sheri Maricle and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra

2005 Archives- Featuring Gordon Goodwin's Big PHAT Band

2004 Archives- Featuring the Bob Mintzer Big Band

2003 Archives- Featuring the Count Basie Orchestra

Our festival has been called by Downbeat magazine, "Perhaps the most educational high school jazz festival anywhere."


The New Trier Jazz Festival was started in 1982 to help keep the tradition of Big Band Jazz alive.  Using a non-competitive format, the four primary purposes of the festival are to provide high school and junior high jazz musicians with...

• An opportunity to perform for, and be critiqued by, some of this country's most outstanding jazz  educators;

• An opportunity to attend clinics on performance techniques, music careers, jazz improvisation, and other topics of interest by leading jazz professionals;

• An opportunity for student musicians to be individually recognized by the awarding of certificates and other awards;

• An opportunity to attend concerts by some of the world's greatest jazz artists and big bands.