Essentially Ellington 2018: Dillard Center for the Arts - A Night in Tunisia

Live from the 2018 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, it's Dillard Center for the Arts from Fort Lauderdale, FL playing Dizzy Gillespie's "A Night in Tunisia."

[Makatsuku]

Summer will be the trumpet player of our time.

[dave]

Consider this: Dillard won for best band that year, and Summer Camargo won the composition contest and the Ella award for best overall soloist. That’s like winning homecoming queen and prom queen in the same night the football team wins states. If you look at all the stuff she did while she was still in high school - Grammy band, NAfME, NYO Jazz - you could conclude that she was embarking on a career that has seen her play in numerous settings with her own group and others.

[davidfreeman]

Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie would be proud of these young musicians

[queenelizabeth]

I love how into the music the pianist is

[roosterslime]

*Director: Christopher Dorsey*
*Solos:*

Vocals: Nadia Nicole Bailey (0:00)**
Bass: Nolan Nwachukwu (1:31)*
Trombone: Charles Blagrove (1:49, 2:22, 6:22)
Trumpet: Summer Camargo (2:49, 6:35)***
Tenor Sax: Kieran Hitsman (3:37)*
Trumpet: Cyrus Mackey (4:41)
Piano: Miles Lennox (5:22)**
Drums: Miguel Russell (6:09)

* = Honorable Mention Award
** = Outstanding Award
*** = Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award

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

*Full Awards List*
*Sectional Awards:*
*Honorable Mention Rhythm Section:* Miles Lennox (Piano)**, Miguel Medina (Guitar), Nolan Nwachukwu (Bass)*, Miguel Russell (Drums), Jamesly Jeanmary (Drums, Offstage)**, Joel Anderson (Drums, Offstage)
*Outstanding Trumpet Section:* Ryan Grenada (Lead), Keon Gooding, Cyrus Mackey, Summer Camargo***, Isaac Sepulveda (Offstage)

*Honorable Mention Soloist Award:*
Nolan Nwachukwu (Bass)
Kieran Hitsman (Clarinet, Tenor Sax)

*Outstanding Soloist Award:*
Nadia Nicole Bailey (Vocals)
Miles Lennox (Piano)
Jamesly Jeanmary (Drums)
Summer Camargo (Trumpet)

**Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award:**
Summer Camargo (Trumpet)

[NotExactlyRomeo]

Congrats to Summer for landing the trumpet chair in the SNL Band!

[joshsutton]

That trumpet player is amazing I love the little Lee Morgan reference at the end

[ethanol]

such an amazing rendition of tunisia, so cool to hear more of an afro-cuban beat on the drums

[SSMONTECARLO]

Ellington, Davis, Mingus, Coltrane....Would've hit the like button on this

[HectorGallegosmusic]

Chills! These are HIGH SCHOOL kids. NICE!

[bsfifagaming]

This is the best rendition I've seen to date. Amazing!

[erikacolbert]

i've watched summer play at district mpa in high school she's a prodigy

[mrsdurrant-rhymeswithcurrant]

Can't wait to show this to my Y6 pupils tomorrow! Thank you!!

[StephenBeaudin]

This gives me chills everytime. W o w.

[tonyseyfert]

These young people are great! Summer is something special.

[jtt]

Nice plying! All of the solos were amazing!

[joshihehe]

this was the totally right crowd, loved everything ab this video

[Anonymous-urj]

This is to date my favorite version of this standard. Amazing!

[danshramo]

Damn. She's even got the Dizzy cheek thing going. Smokin'

[corporatepeon]

I literally watched this with my mouth hanging open lol. My goodness, that was unreal 🤯