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Past Guest Artists Al Cohen Dizzy Gillespie Butch Miles Bill Watrous Steve Turre Clark Terry Slide Hampton Louis Bellson Phil Woods Arturo Sanduval Jeff Jarvis Allen Vizzutti Claudio Roditi Randy Brecker Lew Soloff Lew Tabackin Bob Mintzer Bobby Shew Mike Smith Denis DiBlasio Dave Weckl David Garibaldi Byron Stripling Tal Farlow Kenny Davern Maynard Ferguson Carl Saunders Wayne Bergeron

24th Annual Music Spectacular
Jazz Festival

March 23 and 24 2011



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Important Festival Info Invitation Letter Sample Adjudication Sheet Directions

Required Festival Application Jazz Festival Application Sample Adjudication Sheet Directions

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Elementary, middle and high school students from New Jersey and Pennsylvania will be converging on the Ocean First Theater for a music assembly about jazz with a world famous jazz artist and the LJ Ensemble.  The students will be guests of the Ocean First Theater for the annual 11 hour Music Spectacular Jazz Festival.  Previous performances have featured Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lew Soloff, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Louis Bellson, Arturo Sandoval, Byron Stripling, Allen Vizzutti, David Garibaldi, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, Steve Turre and Butch Miles, Bob Mintzer,Claudio Roditi and Dave Weckl.  Students will be bussed from tri-state high schools representing an audience that will fill every seat of the state of the art Ocean First Theater.

Comprised of twenty outstanding musicians, the LJE Ensemble rehearses and performs regularly under the expert direction of Director, Wilbur Wittemann. Following the morning performance, the high school jazz bands from area schools will perform for adjudication.  All Stars student musicians selected from each of the bands will perform as part of the 7:30 p.m. show. 

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