Music

Tiger Jazz

Director: Ricky Sweum
Packard 136
rsweum@coloradocollege.edu

Tiger Jazz meets on Wednesdays during weeks 1-3 of each block in the Cornerstone Arts Center Flex Room. Contact Ricky for information on how to join.

Rehearsals: Weeks 1-3 from 4-6pm

Jazz Hang: Weeks 1 & 3 from 6-7pm

Jazz Workshop and Jam Session: Week 2 from 6-8:30pm

The Tiger Jazz Ensemble is Colorado College’s dynamic full-size jazz big band, consisting of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, piano, guitar, bass, drums, vocals and more. Students are immersed within a multitude of jazz styles, improvisation, and history. Tiger Jazz performs on and off campus multiple times throughout the year. If you loved playing in Jazz Band in high school, or want to play jazz for the first time, Tiger Jazz is your home.

Tiger Jazz consists of three performance groups, one full-sized big band and two smaller combos. All members will participate in the full-sized big band, Tiger Jazz Ensemble, and one of the combos, either the Tiger Jazz Audition Combo, or the Tiger Jazz Open Combo. Members of the Tiger Jazz Audition Combo are determined by audition and selected by the instructor; all members not in the Audition Combo will be in the Tiger Jazz Open Combo. Only members interested in being in the Audition Combo need to audition, otherwise students will be placed in the Open Combo by default.

All Tiger Jazz students will receive two free private lessons with the ensemble director to bolster learning the repertoire. Although not required, students are highly encouraged to take private lessons on their respective instrument along with enrolling in “Jazz Improvisation and Theory” adjunct course to supplement development in Tiger Jazz. Drums, percussion, piano, vibraphone, and amps are provided for class, and many wind instruments are available from the school for rental.

Rehearsal Breakdown:

4-4:30pm: Audition Combo

4:30-5:30pm: Tiger Jazz Ensemble

5:30-6pm: Open Combo

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