Essentially Ellington 2019: Beloit Memorial High School - Ko Ko

Live from the 2019 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, it's Beloit Memorial High School from Beloit, WI playing Duke Ellington's "Ko-Ko."

[williambojanowski]

Very impressive for a high school band!

[paulgibby]

Great to see so many young ladies playing jazz instruments -- and so well!

[roosterslime]

*Director: Chris Behrens*
*Solos:*

Trumpet: Adam Hobson (0:00)**
Drums: Maddie Mueller (1:59)
Trombone: Audrey McManigle (2:32)
Trombone: August Braatz (2:49, 3:35)**
Alto Sax: Brandon Terwillger (4:22)
Bass: Lukas Laun-Smith (5:24)

* = Honorable Mention Award
** = Outstanding Award

*Full Awards List*
*Sectional Awards:*
*Outstanding Trumpet Section:* Adam Hobson (Lead)**, Naomi Patten (Split-Lead)*, Evan Langone, Olivia Garcia, Piper Mitchell (Offstage)

*Honorable Mention Soloist Award:*
Naomi Patten (Trumpet)

*Outstanding Soloist Award:*
Noah Poepping (Tenor Sax)
August Braatz (Trombone)
Adam Hobson (Trumpet)

[omarguerrero]

2:33 Geez those saxes sound really good, sounds very professional 🤌🏽

[davidw]

This is an awesome performance of a great song!

[IGN-Longieee]

WHY IS THIS TUNE SO POWERFUL?!! WELL PLAYED!!

[jmathesonjr]

Great tune, nice sound. Keep playing.

[Overlycomplicatedswede]

as a bass trombonist those two trombone solos were incredibly good

[hookalakah]

This is a very impressive performance of a great piece of music. Just occurs to me that I went to the wrong high school!

[dougdimmedome]

Interesting, the trombones glissando their notes, duke wanted the trombone section to be as straight edge as possible in that opening phrase to the freer riffing of the saxophones.

[BassmanII]

Would love to hear this group do some Basie also.

[human]

Anyone know the mouthpiece the trombone soloist is using?

[LukeDavis-wrol]

I'm doin a school project on jazz for NHD lol

[BassmanII]

The bassist is actually using a German bow. I'm impressed!