Essentially Ellington 2019: Roosevelt High School - Things to Come

Live from the 2019 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, it's Roosevelt High School from Seattle, WA playing Dizzy Gillespie's "Things to Come."

[nishdafish]

Mad respect for waluigi on the drums right there

[KleinkMusic]

I love the energy coming from that drummer.

[fhgfgfdgbfdgeastrops-dhui]

That vibraphone player game me the chills after that amazing solo.

[Grandtrunk]

Speechless!! High school?? Incredible, the Duke would have been so proud! I hope they make a CD

[KyrozR]

the trumpets having a convo is priceless great job!

[luiem]

its safe to say this group won this competition. if not they placed way up there.

[trumpetguy]

We played this at allstate jazz last year, and this high school is better. That's insane.

[roosterslime]

*Director: Scott Brown*
*Solos:*

Drums: Henry Mohr (0:03, 4:54)*
Trumpet: Carter Eng (0:38, 1:26, 5:00)**
Trumpet: Will Knight (1:04, 1:26, 5:14)**
Vibraphone: Nate Mesler (2:11)*
Tenor Saxophone: George Fulton (2:55)**
Alto Saxophone: Eli Sullivan (3:43)**
Bass Trombone: Toby Jay (5:07)

* = Honorable Mention Award
** = Outstanding Award

***1st Place in Essentially Ellington Competition***

*Full Awards List*
*Sectional Awards:*
*Outstanding Trombone Section:* Elise Toney (Lead)**, Zach Sahlin, Nick Mesler, Toby Jay (Bass), Alexis Kim (Offstage)
*Outstanding Trumpet Section:* Will Knight (Lead)**, Colin Brace, Carter Eng**, Rei Ichikawa
*Outstanding Brass Section:* Elise Toney (Lead Trombone)**, Zach Sahlin (Trombone), Nick Mesler (Trombone), Toby Jay (Bass Trombone), Will Knight (Lead Trumpet)**, Colin Brace (Trumpet), Rei Ichikawa (Trumpet), Carter Eng (Trumpet)**, Alexis Kim (Trombone, Offstage)

*Honorable Mention Soloist Award:*
Aaron Korver (Piano)
Nate Mesler (Vibraphone)
Henry Mohr (Drums)

*Outstanding Soloist Award:*
George Fulton (Tenor Sax)
Nick Altemeier (Baritone Sax)
Elise Toney (Trombone)
Will Knight (Trumpet)
Carter Eng (Trumpet)
Eli Sullivan (Doubler: Soprano Sax, Alto Sax)

*Highlight: **5:07*

[alexlira]

2:03 he quotes stablemates by Benny Golson

[IanBenedict]

Glad the footage of this year's competition is released pretty early this year

[Doostun]

Can someone explain the bag of greens on the piano @4:28 lol

[MonologueMusicals]

So many aspiring jazz musicians have enrolled at this high school that they now fill FOUR jazz bands. Our school barely had 1. Our piano player had to double the bassline like Ray Manzarek.

[salimonehitter]

These young folks are amazing!!! This is a very fun but intimidating tune. I played the original Dizzy Gillespie song book at Clark Atlanta University back in the early 2000s. This is an awesome rendition especially at their level. Awesome job guys continue on... 👏🏽

[ikozbari]

Dude’s drumming like there’s no tomorrow.

[mchenrymaney]

Incredible would be an insult to that alto player, incredible!

[ruscopcoltrain]

One of the smoothest trumpet solos you’ll see followed by one of the spazziest.

[BassmanII]

Back in 1980, Chuck Mangione, Dizzy Gillespie, and a veritable who's who of top shelf musicians recorded the "Tarantella" album and this tune was part of Dizzy's set.

[EeshMajithia]

Anyone else hear the Mario Kart Lick at 0:59???

[Hidanchi]

I'm new to this. Do they create their own solos?

[mr.mrowmusic]

what you doing in the situation that the band next door pulls out a 350 bpm song like this