001But this girl was a social [Music] Yeah, I know. because you have that [Music] always wonderful. [Music] I can't [Music] I saw me. [Music] around here. Thanks so much for coming out tonight. So, this is Beaverdam Jazzfest 2025. I don't know how many years this has been going on, but since I've been here and a long, long time before. Um, we're so happy that you came out tonight. Weather's beautiful and I know track has started, gardens need to be planted, and we're just so happy that you're coming here and spending some time with us to listen to these awesome jazz bands. Jazz is alive and well in Beaver Dam. We are so fortunate that we have so many kids interested. Both middle schools have a jazz band. The high school has two jazz bands and
002then all those teachers are in a jazz band. So, it is truly alive and well in Beaverdam. Um hopefully tonight you'll hear a bunch of songs you know and some new songs that you leave humming. Uh the first one that we're going to perform for you tonight is a breadand butter staple of jazz repertoire. It's In the Mood, made famous by Glenn Miller. And I had to do it this year because I have so many saxophone players. I think the most I've ever had since I've been here. So, we're going to start off with In the Mood. And here are the solos you are going to hear from. Burke Ber, Olivia Mlanahan, Amelia Johnson Twice, and Aiden Leaf Fountain. Did I miss anyone? All right, let's go. In the mood. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat.
003Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat up here. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank [Music] you. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. All [Music] [Applause] [Music] right. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] So that was from the late 30s um right before World War II. This next tune is called Smack Dab in the Middle. Um never played it before. I never had heard of it before. And once I started looking into it, it's actually pretty famous and been recorded many, many times by many people. This is a shuffle, which if you don't know what a shuffle is, as soon as you hear the drum part, you're going to say, "Oh, that sounds like a shuffle." It's happy. Um, the lyrics talk about uh having things like 10 Cadillacs, 10 suits
004of clothes, a 10 room house, throw me smack dab in the middle of all that. So, it's a really happy song. You're going to hear a bunch of solos in the middle. Um, you're going to hear a whole bunch of two measure solos. Probably best if you just hold your applause till all of those are over. And that's going to be Graden Straeski, Marcela Gunther, Olivia Mlanahan, Amelia Johnson, Addie Davis, Aiden Lefountain, Lily Roadie, Sophia Winkl, and then Brooker will have a longer solo at the end and probably just wait till the end of that and you can cheer loudly. So this is smack dab in the middle. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] So almost all
005those solos were improvised and this is kind of the beginning of that whole improvising journey where you start to learn to see the notes on the page and you make something up with it which is really scary at first. We've been working on it all year and it's so nice to have so many kids volunteer to solo for those solos. So, can we give all the kids who volunt who soloed one more round of applause? And we're going to finish off with a tune that I would imagine most of you have heard before. It's called Proud Mary. It was written by John Fogerty. Um, performed by him and also by Tina Turner. Um, written about a river boat. This is the rolling on the river if you're trying to think of the lyrics. So this
006is proud [Music] Mary. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] takes just a few minutes to get off the stage and get SKDF set up. Almost. [Music] Is that Christmas? Good evening. This This is a St. Katherine Drexel's jazz band. [Applause] We're a little bit smaller than the middle school jazz band, but uh but I'm really proud of these kids. They do a lot. We uh practice after school on Wednesdays and um because we're such a smaller group, they really have to step up and and be confident in their own parts. So, first tune we're going to play is called Take on Me, made popular by the band Aha. So, without further ado, here we go. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music]
007Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Thank you so much. Uh the next tune we're going to play is called Moon Dance. Um, first done by written by Van Morrison and performed by him. Um, we have some solos on this one by Eastston Stalm, uh, Liam Garcia, Liam Garcia Chavez, and Liam Gansky. Um, this one too, the the, um, solos are only like six measures. So, if we could wait till they're all done so we don't miss the next one. So, um, we'd appreciate that. Thank you. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] All All right, our last tune is what's our last Oh,
008Green Onions. Um, Green Onions, uh, made famous by Booker T and the MGs. Um, even if you don't know this tune by the name of it, you probably will recognize it. Here's Green Onions. [Music] Hey. Hey. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Hey, hey, [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Yeah, they are Okay. So, this is racks over the side. You get 10. So, if you want if you want to grab if you want to grab four. I don't think we Thank you. Four in this row. 10 in this row. Four. Four chairs. Four. In the first How many up Here you say 10. 10 up against the other one. Yeah. All right, start grabbing instruments. Thank you. Be good. Okay, this was an extra one. I don't know why. So,
009have fun. Thank you. Be good. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. [Music] All right. Hello. Good evening. This is Jazz 2 and our first number that we're going to play is Night of the Living Chili Pepper by Doug Beachch. The samba chart features Charlie Scholes on piano, Nate Smith on drum set, and Carter Ramlfinger on trumpet. [Music] Hey, heat. Hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] All right. So this year, this year again, we played at the WSMA solo ensemble festival, hosted the WSMA solo ensemble festival. And these next two charts, we played for our solo ensemble performance. They are back burner and go for it. And Jazz 2 received a one rating as high as as high as we can
010uh uh achieved as high as we can uh uh play in class B. Yeah. So this this swing chart is going to feature Miles Wheaten heft on tenor saxophone and Carter Ronald Finganger on trumpet again. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. All [Music] [Applause] right. All right. Our third selection is entitled Go for It by Paul Clark. And this tune is a rock chart and it features Peter Henning on trombone and Carter Carter Ramloffinger on trumpet for a third time. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. So our before our final selection, I just wanted to uh say thank you. This is the um this is the
011last performance of the year for for Jazz 2 and I just wanted to thank um senior in the the group. So thank you. Thank you very much to uh to Carter uh for three years in uh jazz jazz uh 2 and uh done a great job and I really really appreciate that. Um [Applause] yeah. All right. Our final selection is entitled Good Time and it's arranged by John Wen and we have a solo by Miles Weedenhe on tenor saxophone. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] the extra chair. What do you think? [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. Thank you. [Music] Okay, let's do it, guys. [Music] One more time. [Music] That's [Music] All right. Here we go. [Music]
012Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, honey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] I'm wondering. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] All right. Hello everybody. Uh that first song was Shiny Stockings composed by Frank Foster uh arranged by Greg Yzanitki. We featured Abby Goodconnect on trumpet and Benio Gonzalez on drum set. [Applause] Up next, uh we're going to slow down just a little bit, uh and feature another one of our trumpet players. Um Sarah Sailor has been our lead trumpet for the last two years, and we're excited to feature her on I Remember Clifford, composed by Benny Goolson, arranged by Eric Morales. Clifford Brown was an American jazz trumpet uh trumpeter, pianist, and composer. Uh he
013died at the age of 25 in a car crash, unfortunately. Um, his compositions, Joy, Spring, Sandeu, and Dahoud have become jazz standards. Here's Sarah Sailor and Jazz One on I Remember Clifford. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Congratul [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Cheek to Cheek was written by Irving Berlin in 1934 and 35, specifically for Fred Estair, the the star of his new musical Top Hat, co-starring Ginger Rogers. In the movie, A Stair sings the song to Rogers as they dance. The song was nominated for the best song Oscar in 1936. We're excited to feature Kate Jameson as our vocalist on this piece. This is Cheek to Cheek. [Applause] [Music] Heaven. I'm in heaven and my heart beats so that I can
014hardly speak. And I seem to find the happiness I seek when we're out together dancing cheek to cheek. Yes, heaven. I'm in heaven and the cares that hung around me through the wind seem to vanish like a gambler's lucky stream when we're out together dancing cheek to [Music] cheek. Oh, I love to go out fishing in a river or a creek. But I don't enjoy it half as much as dancing cheek to cheek. Oh, I love to climb a mountain, reach the highest peak, but it doesn't thrill me half as much as dancing cheek to cheek. My heart about you. The charm about you will carry me through to heaven. I'm in heaven. And my heart beats so that I can hardly spare. I seem to find the happiness I [Music] see when we're out
015together dancing cheek to cheek. [Music] Dance with me. I want my arm about you. The charm about you will carry me through. to heaven. I'm in heaven. And my heart beats so that I can hardly say. And I seem to find the happiness I see when we're out together dancing. We're out together dancing. When we're out together dancing to ch [Applause] Fred Sturm was a jazz composer, arranger, and teacher. He was the director of jazz and improvisational music at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music in Apple, Wisconsin. Prior to teaching there, he served as the professor and chair of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in New York from 1991 to 2002, where he directed the internationally acclaimed Eastman Jazz Ensemble. Stern received the University Award for Excellence in Teaching
016at Lawrence in 2005 and the 2010 Downbeat Jazz Education Achievement Award in 2010. Uh over the course of his university teaching career, Downbeat magazine has cited his ensembles as the finest in the United States and Canada nine times. Our next piece, Rivercape, was commissioned by the University of Wisconsin River Falls. Um we really enjoyed uh learning about this. This is a um a different kind of piece for us, which is kind of what I like to do uh like to do a piece like this every year that's a little bit uh more out there, a little bit different. Um so uh we played this one along with uh our first chart, Shiny Stockings, as part of our solo and ensemble program. Uh we're honored to be returning uh Jazz One is to state solo and
017ensemble for the third year in a row this Saturday. [Applause] Riverscape will feature Luly Mercier on the piano and Brianna Meyer on soprano saxophone. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Here we [Music] go. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat up [Applause] [Music] here. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Boy, isn't that one cool? I love I love that chart so much. Okay, uh we got one more on the program for you. Uh but before we do that, uh we do have a number of seniors in the group that I want to thank for, um their their time in the ensemble, their participation, their dedication. Um jazz band is an extracurricular at at the high school, so they're putting in time
018uh outside of school. Um Jazz One rehearses Tuesday nights uh at 6:00 uh and then again on Thursday. Uh and we just have a lot of fun. Um so hope you all have had fun. I want to recognize him by section. Um in our saxophone section, Brianna Meyer in our trombone section. Colton Reeseman and Noah Kickert, trumpets, Sarah Sailor and Joy Nelson. And on the drum set, Benio Gonzalez. [Applause] Um, since this is our uh last chart uh on the program, uh just a couple thank yous to some folks. Um first and foremost, I want to thank Mr. Greg Richard up in the booth up there for running lights, sound, mics, and everything. Thank you, Greg. Thank you to admin uh custodial and anybody uh that helped make this concert happen from both BDHS, BDMS
019and St. Katherine Drexel. And of course, thank you to uh friends, family that are here tonight uh for your support of these all the students you've seen on stage tonight. Uh how about one more big round of applause for all of our jazz fans. Um, as with all of our concerts here at the at Beaverdam High School, uh, on your way out, you'll see a couple students with some wicker baskets. Uh, we do take a free will donation. If you have a dollar or two you want to throw in there, um, that goes right to support, um, all the jazz musicians you've seen on stage today with music, reads, strings, anything you can think of, um, that's really appreciated. So, uh, our last chart, I Want You Back, is the first national single by the
020Jackson 5. The piece became the first number one hit for the band in January of 1970. It was performed on the band's first television appearances on the Hollywood Palace and later the Ed Sullivan Show. We'll feature Jacob Mlen on trumpet. Thanks for coming. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat up here. [Music] [Applause] Joy Nelson on the trumpet. Miles Weeden Heft and Brianna Meyer on Alto Sachs. Owen Hemling on the trombone. [Applause]