Thursday, June 8, Poly’s jazz bands are having their final concert at Cal State Long Beach’s Daniel Recital Hall from 6:30 P.M to 8:30 P.M. Students are going to be given a chance at showing how hard they have worked, practicing in class and individually, during their solos at the concert. Senior trumpeter Tatiana Tate responded, “For our trumpet section, sometimes we’ll have outside sectionals where we work on pieces that we’re struggling with and try to blend our sounds together.” Junior Eric Wilson, who is featured as a soloist on the alto sax and soprano, is playing “Barnelles,” though he further explained that he is playing lead on all the songs.
The Jazz Band is playing a number of charts including a Sammy Nestico tune called “New Day”, “Wolf Den Funk”, “Look of Love” by Abigail Hodge, “Pick Up The Pieces” by The Average White band, and the song previously mentioned to be performed by Eric Wilson – an original song called “Barnelles” written by jazz director Chris Stevens’ son Will. Gabriel Burns, who plays the alto sax as well, is also being given a solo at the concert, performing a pop tune from the late 60’s and early 70’s called “More Today Than Yesterday”. The Jazz Band encourages you to attend the concert; Burns said, “It’s going to be a lot of fun, if you can go, you should.”
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