Music Department
Jazz Studies Audition Requirements
Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone
- Prepare "The Autumn Leaves" (G minor) or "There Is No Greater Love" (Bb)
- Play the head
- Solo one chorus
- Accompanist will play the two A sections
- Play the melody on the bridge to the end
- Sight-reading as selected by the committee
Guitar and Piano
- Prepare "The Autumn Leaves" (G minor) or "There Is No Greater Love" (Bb)
- Play the head
- Solo one chorus
- Accompanist will play the two A sections
- Play the melody on the bridge to the end
- Sight-reading as selected by the committee
Drum Set
- Play swing time for four bars, solo for four bars (trade 4's) at quarter note = 120
- Play the same at half note equals 120 but trade 8's
- Play as many of these styles as possible: Swing with brushes, ballad with brushes, 3/4 swing, Bossa Nova, Samba, Afro Cuban 6/8, Mambo, or Songo, Funk, Rock
- Sight-read a big band chart
Bass
- Prepare Tenor Madness (Bb)
- Play the head
- Walk for a piano solo
- Play a Bass solo
- Play the head out
- Prepare "Autumn Leaves" as a Bossa (comping only)
- Sight-read a big band chart
Vocalists
- Prepare "The Autumn Leaves" or "There Is No Greater Love" in the appropriate key
- Sing the head
- Scat one chorus
- Accompanist will play the two A sections
- Sing the melody on the bridge to the end
- Sight-reading as selected by the committee