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2010/2011 allstars on KRTU Jazz 91.7 FM, interviews and live performances

It takes a village to raise a globally conscious musician. The Alamo Colleges Jazz Allstars Mentorship Program represents that village for San Antonio students. Audition in November to become a member of the next generation of Allstars. Perform locally and internationally. Contact: Katchie Cartwright, kcartwright2@alamo.edu, 210-486-4828.

The Alamo Colleges Jazz Allstars is an intercollegiate mentorship program. It is open to any student enrolled fulltime in one of the five Alamo Colleges campuses at the time of application. Live auditions are held each November, at which time a panel of outside judges selects five students to form a jazz quintet. During the spring semester, the quintet performs locally and is coached by regional professionals and visiting artists. One grand prize recipient (selected by the IASJ) is invited to the annual meeting of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) in late June or early July, where s/he performs, lives, and learns with fellow students from all over the world for one week. The meetings are hosted by a different IASJ member school each year. Singer Jeané Gaines, Northwest Vista College, participated in the IASJ meeting in São Paulo, Brazil in 2011 as the first Alamo Allstars grand prize winner. Congratulations, Jeané!

Above left: Gene Perla with the Alamo Allstars at Northwest Vista College. Clockwise from top row are Jeané Gaines (voice, Northwest Vista), Rene Pintor (trombone, San Antonio College), Jessica Brandi Adams (drums, St. Philip's), Amanda Sanchez (bass, Palo Alto), Marco António Escobedo (San Antonio College).  Below right: the Allstars with Nicholas Payton at Trinity University, February 2011.

 

Below are documents and links to information for Alamo Allstars combo members, project stakeholders, and students interested in auditioning for the program.

IASJ TOP 10
Combo members are expected to know all of the following tunes by heart by the end of the spring semester. Lead sheets with lyrics are given below (PDF). They are all in concert keys that are friendly to women singers. Players of Bb, Eb, and bass clef instruments are expected to transpose their own parts. It's important to learn to do this on sight, but feel free to write them out if you need to.

Body and Soul - Ab
Stella by Starlight - F
All the Things You Are - Eb
Rhythm changes: Straighten Up and Fly Right - C
Rhythm changes: Oleo - Bb
Rhythm changes: I Got Rhythm - C, 32-bar version
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise - Gm
Autumn Leaves - Cm
Green Dolphin Street - G
Blues: All Blues - Eb
Blues: All Blues, lyric sheet
There Is No Greater Love - G
Solar - Cm
[All of Me - G]

A FEW VOCAL BLUES

Red Top - Eb (lead sheet) / King Pleasure & Betty Carter (video)
Dr. Feelgood (lyrics) / Aretha Franklin (video)
C-Jam Blues/Duke's Place (lead sheet)
Backwater Blues - C (page 1, page 2) / Bessie Smith, with historical context (video) / Dinah Washington (video)
Centerpiece - C (lead sheet) / Lambert, Hendricks & Ross (video) / Instructional, with Lenora Zenzalai Helm (video)

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