2021-2022 Jazz Band Auditions
Friday, April 30, 2021

Auditions will be held in-person on on Friday, April 30th, in Band Room 2 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

CVA students ONLY may submit a recording of their audition by Thursday, April 29th.  Your submission should be one unedited and continuous recording.  Please submit your recording to Mrs. Burgess via email (cburgess@colliervilleschools.org) by 11:59 PM on Thursday, April 29, 2021.  If the recording is too large to email, you may upload to Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, and submit a link to you recording by email to Mrs. Burgess. 

audition pre-requisites

Audition Requirements
  • Students must be entering grades  9-12 at CHS for the 2021- 2022school year
  • All wind and percussion students must be enrolled in Varsity band or Percussion Class
  • Schedule must allow you to be in the Jazz Band Class​
  • All 12 major scales 
  • Required Solo (click here for recordings & sheet music )
  • 12 Bar Blues in Concert F Improvisation over a back track​​
    • ​Click here for backtrack recording
    • Instructions: Let the backtrack play for 12 measures on its own, then perform 12 measures of improvisation