Tony Pantelis

Apr 032014

Please remember to bring your $260 trip payment #3 (if you have not already paid).

Tomorrow, Josh’s drum lesson will run from 5:30 until 6:30pm, followed by our rehearsal/clinic with Tony Pantelis until 9pm.

TRANSCRIPTION ASSIGNMENT: On Sunday we’ll need to hear: “Bill Bailey” by Andrew; “Big Butter and Egg Man” by Jake W (next week); “Royal Garden Blues” by Tom; Fish Vendor by Josh; “Saints” by Jake C (next week); “The Mooche” by Adam; and “Blue Skies” by Ben (in 3 weeks).

Please be sure to prepare That’s a Plenty, Cornet Chop Suey, and Midnight, the Stars, and You, along with Amazing Grace for our next performance.

Ben’s 16 memorized tunes due on Sunday include: All of Me, Amazing Grace, At the Jazz Band Ball, Bill Bailey, Blue Skies, Bourbon Street Parade, Caravan, Down by the Riverside, Ham and Eggs, I Got Rhythm, Ice Cream, Indiana, It Don’t Mean a Thing, My Walkin’ Stick, St. James Infirmary, and When the Saints. We’ll need to choose 4 additional ones for Sacramento on Sunday.

Added Performances/Special Rehearsal:

-Sunday, April 27th (11:30am-5pm, Josh drops performance kit at the Elks at 10:30am), Special early rehearsal/Car pool/Lunch/Performance at Westminster Elks Lodge

-Thursday, May 1st (4:45-7:45pm), Westland Meridian Retirement Community (10695 W. 17th Ave, Lakewood)

-Thursday, May 15th (4-9pm), Pearl Street Mall, Boulder

-Friday, June 6th (1-9pm), Avo’s (605 S. Mason St, Ft. Collins w/Poudre River Irregulars)

-Friday, June 20th (Tentative, 3-9pm), 16th Street Mall (Downtown Denver, No Jake C)

Just a reminder that we are looking for 4 musicians to fill our 2014-15 band: clarinet, trombone, piano & drums. We have no scheduled auditions as of yet. Please let me know of anyone you could recommend for an April audition.

All dates and driving directions can be found on the Event Calendar page.

The set order and reference recordings can be found on the Downloads page.

These are our available performance dates. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know as soon as possible if you have a conflict with any of these dates:

April 6 (No Jake C & Jake W), 9, 13 (No Adam), 17-18 (No Copland), 19 (No Josh), 21-22 (No Josh), 23, 26 (No Josh), 27 (No Copland after 4:30pm), 30

May 1 (No Jake C & Ben), 3 (No Copland & Josh), 4 (No Copland until 5:30pm), 5 (No Josh), 8 (No Copland), 10 (No Josh; No Copland before 4pm), 11, 12 (No Jake C, Ben & Josh), 13 (No Copland & Josh), 14-15, 18, 19 (No Jake W & Josh), 23-26 (No Jake W), 27 (No Josh), 28-30, 31 (No Josh)

June 1 (No Copland in the afternoon), 2-3 (No Josh), 4-6, 7 (No Josh), 8-12, 13 (No Adam), 14 (No Adam & Josh), 15 (No Adam), 16-17 (No Copland & Josh), 18-19 (No Jake C), 20, 21 (No Adam & Josh), 22 (No Adam), 23-24 (No Adam & Josh), 25-29 (No Adam), 30 (No Adam, Copland & Josh)

July 1 (No Adam, Copland & Josh), 2-4 (No Adam & Copland), 5 (No Adam, Copland & Josh), 6 (No Adam & Copland; Probably No Josh), 7 (No Copland & Josh), 8 (No Copland, Adam & Josh), 13 (No Ben; Probably No Josh), 14-15 (No Ben & Josh), 16 (No Jake C & Ben; Probably No Josh), 19 (No Ben & Josh), 20 (No Ben), 21-2 (No Jake C, Ben & Josh), 23-25 (No Jake C & Ben), 26 (No Jake C & Ben), 27-31

August 1, 9

(2014-15 Band) – August 10, 11-16 (Andrew’s MB camp), 17-31

(2014-15 Band) – September 1-30

Andrew – late August through end of October (Tu/Th 5-8:30pm & Sat 9-4 MB rehearsals)

Upcoming Performances/Special Rehearsals:

-Sunday, April 6: (5:30-6:30pm) Josh’s Drum Lesson w/Tony Pantelis; (6:30-9pm) Band/Drum Clinic w/Tony Pantelis

-Sunday, April 13: (5:30-6:30pm) Andrew’s Bass Lesson w/Ron Bland; (6:30-9pm) Band/Bass Clinic w/Ron Bland (No Adam)

-Sunday, April 20: Easter – NO REHEARSAL

-Sunday, April 27: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal

-Thursday, May 1st (4:45-7:45pm), Westland Meridian Retirement Community (10695 W. 17th Ave, Lakewood)

-Thursday, May 15th (4-9pm), Pearl Street Mall, Boulder

-Sunday, May 18: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal

-Friday, May 23 – Monday, May 26: Sacramento Music Festival (No Jake W; Ben will take Jake W’s place)

-Friday, June 6: (1-9pm) Avo’s (605 S. Mason St, Ft. Collins w/Poudre River Irregulars)

-Monday, June 9: (6-9pm) Performance w/Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St, Denver, 80203

-Tuesday, June 10: (5:30-8:30pm, 7-8pm show) KUVO Jazz Radio Show, 2900 Welton St, #200, Denver

-Wednesday, June 11: (9:30am-4:30pm) Recording Session at MFP Studio (2949 Larimer Street, Denver)

-Sunday, June 15: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal (No Adam & Jake C)

-Friday, June 20th (Tentative, 3-9pm), 16th Street Mall (Downtown Denver, No Jake C)

-Thursday, June 26: (5:45-8:45pm) Outdoor Concert at The Vi Retirement Community (2850 Classic Dr, Highlands Ranch 80126, No Adam)

-Saturday, June 28: (TBA) Performance at Golden City Park (No Adam)

-Sunday, July 20: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal (No Jake C & Ben)

-Thursday, July 24 through Saturday, July 26th: Evergreen Jazz Workshop & Festival (No Jake C & Ben)

-Sunday, July 27 through Friday, August 1st: NYC Performance Tour

-Saturday, August 9: (1-3pm) Flesher-Hinton Customer Appreciation Day; (3-5pm) Senior Celebration Dinner

-(2014-15 Band) – Sunday, August 17: (2-9pm) DJC monthly performance at the annual picnic potluck (Westerberg’s home in Littleton)/Rehearsal

-(2014-15 Band) – Saturday, September 13: (9am-3:30pm) Adams County Heritage Festival

-(2014-15 Band) – Sunday, September 21: (3:15-9pm) DJC monthly performance at Westminster Elks Lodge/Rehearsal

-(2014-15 Band) – Sunday, September 28: (9am-9pm) Summit Jazz Festival/Rehearsal

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