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Jazz Orchestra - November 30th

Dear Jazz Orchestra Students:

Here’s some important updated information for Jazz Orchestra.

This Saturday, December 3^rd: Owen Combo with Gabby, David, Jack P, Evie, Paddy plays the Crown Street Mall from 12-2pm. Make sure you have Combo Books and Xmas music. Owen is the leader of this.

This Sunday, December 4^th COMBOS:

I need the following people to play Combo Jazz at Town Hall:

-10am-11am – Jack C, Matt, Er-Chih Li, Rhyan, Adrian, Noah

-1pm-2pm – Millie, Jeremy, Jack P, Gabby, Paddy, David Q

-There is an offer pay $20 per hour for a small number of students to pass out fliers in crown street mall during the day on Sunday.

Please wear your black Con Shirts (or black). I’ll have music stands, keys. Bass and Guitar bring your own amps.

The following have been scheduled to hand our flyers:

10am-12pm Owen Cannings and Jeremy Quinn

11am-1pm Jack Purdon and Connor Birch

12-2pm Jack Contencin and Kyle Eardly

This Sunday, December 4^th Jazz Orchestra Performance Town Hall

Arrive at 4:30pm

Dress: black Con shirt or all black.

Performance time: 5-5:25pm

Set:

Sanctified Blues – aw, rc

Oye Como Va – aw, gt

You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch – dq, rc

Charlie Brown Christmas Medley – dq, rc

In The Mood – gt, aw

On Sunday, December 11^th the Jazz in The Gardens Festival

The schedule is still being sorted. But here’s the information so far:

-All Jazz Orchestra Arrive at 9am for set up.

-Wear Black Con Shirts or Black, short okay.

-Jazz Orchestra members will help and play with superBIGband at 11am-12.

-SCBB will play at 1pm

-Eros BB will play sometime between 11:30-1pm.

-All Combos will perform sometime between 12-3pm.

-The final drawing and raffle will take place at 3pm and the Jazz Orchestra will play a set then.

-I’m looking to wrap up the day at 3;30pm.

If it rains, all shows move inside and the superBIGband is cancelled.

NEW INFORMATION:

Thursday, December 15^th – Jazz Combo in the Mall 5-8pm.

The Whole Jazz Orchestra will perform. We’ll put out buckets and collect some $$$.

Reminder of other dates:

NEW DATES THAT PAY$$$!!!

December 31^st (New Years Eve) 7:45-9pm – Jack, Matt, Des, Rebecca, Rhyan play as The Cats O’Plenty Roving New Orleans Band around Wollongong Harbour. $600 toward fundraising effort.

January 7^th 12pm-2pm Crown Street Mall Jazz Combo TBA

January 26^th 2:30-3:30pm – Australia Day at Wollongong Harbour FULL Jazz Orchestra pays $800 towards fundraising.

Please let me know if you have any conflicts with either of these dates asap.

I will put a copy of this letter on my website www.dunanbandman.com.

There is also a full schedule of the Conservatorium Open Day and Christmas Concert on www.wollcon.com.au ,

Thanks, Eric Dunan 0423 809 316/ericd@wollcon.com.au

Jazz Orchestra

November 23, 2011

Dear Jazz Orchestra Students:

Saturday, November 26^th – Trivia Night at Woonona Surf Club, Kurabba Road, Woonona. Bring your instruments, a music stand, drums, keyboard, and amps as needed. I will bring music books…but you’ll need to bring your own gear. Dress nicely. Arrive at 6pm for 6:30pm performance. If its raining we won’t play.

November 27^th – BBQ at Shellharbour Woolworths off Lake Entrance Rd. The Jazz Orchestra will NOT play, and I will NOT be there. The following Jazz Combo will perform from 11am-1pm and will need to bring their own music gear, stands, combo book, extension cords etc:

11am-1pm Jazz Combo of Jack Contencin, Matt Vecanski, Jeremy Quinn, Jack Purdon, Connor Birch, Er-Chi, Adrian, Rhyan (these are the children of parents scheduled to do the first shift of the BBQ).

After 1pm we’ll do the BBQ without music (unless some of the kids want to organize something).

BBQ Duty is as follows:
11am-1:30pm: Bernadette W, Angela Quinn, Rose Purdon, Kim Vecanski, Ted, Meryn Birch
1:30-4pm: Rose Contencin, Sandra Quinn, Wayne McNair, Gabriel McNair, Sabine Kelly

Pam Cannings will bring the sausages, drinks, and cashbox.

Saturday, December 3^rd – Crown Street Mall 12-2pm. The Jazz Orchestra will NOT be playing. Owen Cannings is organizing a combo to perform on this date.

On Sunday, December 4^th, the Jazz Orchestra will be performing at Town Hall at 5pm as part of the Wollongong Conservatorium Open Day/Christmas Concert. Dress as we did for the IPAC concert. Arrive at 4:30pm. You will NOT need music stands, keyboard, or drums.

ALSO…I will be asking Jazz Combos to play from 10am-1pm that day. So leave the whole day open if you can. This is a great opportunity to set up a table and sell some raffle tickets and promote December 11^th Jazz Picnic (Jazz In the Gardens).

On Sunday, December 11^th the Jazz Orchestra will be performing at the Jazz Picnic at the Conservatorium. This is an all-day jazz festival featuring all the jazz combos, the SuperBIGband, The Wollongong Conservatorium Jazz Orchestra, and the World According To James. The Jazz Orchestra will perform with the SuperBIGband at 11am and again sometime between 12pm-4pm. I will nail down exact performance time as soon as I can. The Jazz Orchestra will be the hosts of this event. Please set aside the WHOLE day for set up in the morning and clean up afterwards.

I will need someone to organize sausage sizzle and we will hold the drawing for the raffle on this day at 4pm.

Thursday, December 15^th – Jazz Combo in the Mall 5-8pm. To be assigned. (This is part of the series of gigs that the mall is paying us for that is going into our fundraising effort.) …turn over….

NEW DATES THAT PAY$$$!!!

December 31^st (New Years Eve) 7:45-9pm – Jack, Matt, Des, Rebecca, Rhyan play as The Cats O’Plenty Roving New Orleans Band around Wollongong Harbour. $600 toward fundraising effort.

January 7^th 12pm-2pm Crown Street Mall Jazz Combo TBA

January 26^th 2:30-3:30pm – Australia Day at Wollongong Harbour FULL Jazz Orchestra pays $800 towards fundraising.

Please let me know if you have any conflicts with either of these dates asap.

I will put a copy of this letter on my website www.dunanbandman.com.

There is also a full schedule of the Conservatorium Open Day and Christmas Concert on www.wollcon.com.au ,

Thanks,

Eric Dunan 0423 809 316/ericd@wollcon.com.au

Jazz Orchestra Term 3

Here’s important information regarding upcoming dates. Please enter these in your diary and let me know immediately if there are any problems.

Please remember for upcoming performances, that if you can’t be there, your music DOES need to be there.

*Saturday, 20^th August 12:30-2:30pm Jazz Orchestra In the Mall
Important: We will DRESS UP for this gig. Black and white...with black shoes and Jackets if you can. White shirts please. Ties if you can. We will be playing a lot of swing music and see if we can possibly get some gigs. Will probably have a singer with the band as well.
We are allowed to sell raffle tix (guessing competition tix) if anyone wants to sus that out.

August 27^th Latin Jazz Ensemble (for this gig I have tried to avoid asking students who are in the middle of HSC exams or so stars performances and also tried to get those of you who might be already familiar with the tunes…please don’t feel bad if you were not asked)

Friday, September 2^nd – Reed workshop at 4:30-6pm (all saxes)

Friday, September 2^nd – Kim Lawson Trio at Con

Friday, September 9^th – Showa 44 at Con

Sunday, September 11^th 4pm– Ensemble Showcase (wind ensemble).

Saturday and Sunday September 24th - Relay for Life Fundraiser for Cancer at Beaton Park. Times TBA.

Monday, September 26th - $300 payment due for America Tour

*Friday, September 30^th – Jazz Showcase Performance.

Friday, October 14^th – Steve Hunter at Con

Thursday, October 20^th – Anthony Wilson (USA) with Masso, Garbett, and Boneham at the Con.

Friday, October 28^th-30^th – Wangaratta Jazz Festival (possible performance of Latin Jazz Ensemble TBA)

*Saturday, November 19^th – Jazz Orchestra Performance at the IPAC opening for the 10 year Reunion Faculty Alumni Wollongong Jazz Orchestra.

Friday, November 25^th – Abel Cross and NeoBop at the Con.

I will try and keep all these and other events updated on my website www.dunanbandman.com plus other information can also be found on the con website www.wollcon.com.au and www.wollongongjazz.com as well.

Eric

*Performances…make sure you are there if you are supposed to be there, and let me know if you will not be there.

Jazz Orchestra, Wednesday
7-8:30*pm Auditorium
*note new ending time

David	Q	bass
Adrian	W	bass
Rhyan	C	drums
Gabriel	T	drums
Chris	B	guitar
Patrick	K	piano
Er-Chih	L	piano
Madeliene	N	sax alto
Milie	T	sax alto
Rachel	S	sax bari
Jake	P	sax tenor
Matt	V	sax tenor
Bradley	B	trombone
Owen	C	trombone
Desmond	C	trombone
Jeremy	Q	trombone
Connor	B	trumpet
Jack	C	trumpet
Stuart	M	trumpet
Jack	P	trumpet
Aiden	R	trumpet

Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra 2011 / February 2, 2011

Dear Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble Students and Parents:

Please look over this note carefully. I am hoping to have better communication with regards to the expectations of being in this band this year.

I consider the Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra to be honour groups. Everyone is in these bands because they have been invited to join. To stay in these ensembles, you are expected to attend all rehearsals. If you cannot, please let me know. Be on time. If you continually miss rehearsals, I may ask that you do not continue to participate in subsequent terms.

All members are expected to come rehearsals prepared. You are expected to practice your music and your scales to remain in these ensembles. Expect to have learnt all your major, minor, and dominant scales this year.

It is assumed that you have an interest in Jazz music if you are in these ensembles. If you have no interest in Jazz, please contact me as soon as possible and we will seek to find a more suitable ensemble to fit your needs.

Concert Attendance. Last year there were 18 jazz shows. We host these shows for the benefit of our jazz students. You are expected to attend as many of these jazz shows as possible. You must attend an average of 1 show per term to continue your enrolment in Jazz Ensemble. Attendance is mandatory. The absolute best way for us to teach you how to play jazz, is for us to show you how the professionals do it. If you have financial reasons for not attending jazz shows, please contact Alex Masso, or me and we will insure that you are able to see the show. Please keep in mind that there are other ensembles at the Con that do not require you to attend jazz shows. This is the ensemble that does.

Important Dates:

Feb 25^th Motion Jazz Show 8pm at Con

March 11^th Dave Theak Band Jazz Show 7pm at Con

April 8^th Jazz Showcase/Paul Williamson 6pm – All Jazz Combos, Jazz Ens, Jazz Orch to perform.

April 23 Easter Jazz Festival Wollongong – Jazz Ens and Jazz Orch to perform.

May 6-8 Mt. Gambier (TBC)

May 19^th Marc Isaacs Resurgence Band – Jazz Show

June 3^-5th Mothership Jazz Orch. Ilawrra Music Festival – All con jazz groups perform.

Please sign that you have read the above and return this letter to Eric Dunan by February 9^th

Print Student Name:_____________________________________________________________

Parent signature;________________________ Student Signature:________________________

I will give out another note with the important dates and also post this information on my website which can be accessed through the “ensembles” link www.wollcon.com.au for reference.

My contact is 0423 809 316 / ericd@wollcon.com.au