Graduation
Ceremony DVDS will be mailed by first-class US postage by
Saturday, June 20.
If
you do not receive your DVD within a reasonable time after that, send an
email to JWarrick@NTJazz.com
2009 Downbeat
Magazine
Student Musician Awards
just announced.
High School Winner
Big Band
New Trier High School
Jazz Ensemble I
High School
Outstanding Performance
Jazz Vocal Soloist:
Carrie Furniss
New Trier High School
Alex Perraud
New Trier High School
The SPRING JAZZ
CONCERT
Featuring the 50-piece
Alumni BIG Band
(that was a complete surprise to
Mr. Warrick)
will be archived soon.
A concert photo
webpage is posted.
Click Here for
Spring Jazz Concert
Archive Page
The
concert archive files from the
26th Annual Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
at New Trier High School
are now posted!!!!
See
the...
- Count Basie Orchestra
- Army Blues (from Washington, D.C.)
- Jamie Aebersold's
"How To Improvise" Workshop
- Ryan Cohen Sextet
- Jazz Directors FAT Band
- New Trier High School Jazz Ensembles
SEE
THESE CONCERTS NOW!!!
We
are very proud to announce that
the building of the
FRANK
MANTOOTH HOUSE
in
MUSICIANS' VILLAGE
(New Orleans)
IS
DONE!
The
"Key Ceremony" to hand the front door keys over to the
new owner will be
July 8 and filmed for us to produce a YouTube video for all to see.
New photos will be added
as we receive them to the TOP.

Photo taken April 23, 2009
Drywall being installed.
Wont be long!

Lake Zurich HS Jazz Bands
(Josh Thompson, director)
visit the "Mantooth House" while they
are in NOLA building for Habitat.
Photo taken April 2, 2009

Photo taken March 13, 2009
(Exactly one month after the "Wall Raising")
The banner that will hang on the
FRANK MANTOOTH HOUSE

Raising the front wall!
Friday, Feb. 13, 2009

Wall Raising Ceremony
New Owner, TANYA HUANG, speaking.
Friday, Feb. 13, 2009
Foundation
Feb. 5, 2009
WATCH THIS SPACE FOR CONSTRUCTION
PROGRESS AND SPECIAL VIDEOS
To see the rebroadcast schedule for local TV and LIVE
broadcast/webcast schedule...
SEMESTER I (2008-09)-
PDF FILE
SEMESTER II (2008-09)- PDF FILE
Beginning this year, all concerts will be
broadcast using...

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for free download
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TO
SEE
OUR 1 hr. 22 min.
New Orleans
TOUR VIDEO
See
the article published in
AMERICAN PROFILE magazine on
July 17, 2008.
(9
million distribution- see the papers that include AMERICAN PROFILE)
Click HERE to go to our
New Orleans Project website
Click
HERE you wish to donate to
New Orlean's Habitat for Humanity
by purchasing a 25th
Anniversary CD


SEE
OUR PHOTO GALLERY
OF MORE THAN 4,500 PICTURES TAKEN DURING OUR TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS (March 22-28)
READ
OUR "REFLECTION PAPERS" THAT BEST EXPLAIN WHAT THIS EXPERIENCE
MEANT TO EACH OF US.
Read
an article published May 8, in "MAKE IT BETTER"
about the NOLA trip.
Watch
Jazz I
perform with Jeff Coffin on WWL-TV (CBS) LIVE in New Orleans
Article
in PIONEER PRESS
March 27, 2008
Our 25th Anniversary CD
With ALL proceeds going to
Musicians' Village
is now ready to order and hear!!
CLICK to hear sample sound
files
and ORDER this Limited Edition
Double CD
We
raised
$75,000, WHICH IS THE COST OF BUILDING A Habitat
for Humanity
HOUSE FOR A MUSICIAN IN NEW ORLEANS IN MEMORY OF
FRANK MANTOOTH
We
collected and delivered to New Orleans schools over 400 musical instruments
We
collected and delivered over 500 prom dresses and 400 tuxes to the junior and
seniors in the New Orleans area so they can look great at their prom this
spring.
Go
to our NOLA webpage
for details about our yearlong
NOLA project.
NTJazz.com/NOLA

Our Jazz Ensemble I and seniors spent Spring Break to help
build a house with Habitat for Humanity in
"Musicians'
Village".

TIPITINA'S FOUNDATION
Click
to
donate by credit card online to our NOLA tour fund
Go
to our NOLA webpage for all tour and fundraising project details.
NTJazz.com/NOLA

Watch our
Jazz
Ensemble I
and
Jazz
Guitar Ensemble's
performance with
JEFF
COFFIN, saxophonist in
Bela
Fleck and the Flecktones.
at the 2007
MIDWEST International Band Orchestra Clinic
See five selections

Jazz Ensemble I

Jazz Guitar
Ensemble
DOWNLOAD
A PDF FILE OF OUR MIDWEST CONCERT PROGRAM
PROFESSIONAL
GROUPS FROM PAST JAZZ FESTIVALS ARCHIVED FOR IMMEDIATE VIEWING!!!
To
see LIVE or ARCHIVED concerts,
you must download REALPLAYER
(The
free
version works great.)
The
Count Basie Orchchestra
The SPAM All-Stars
and
THE ARMY BLUES Jazz Ensemble from Washington D.C.
JAMIE AEBERSOLD WORKSHOP...
"How to Improvise"
RYAN COHEN JAZZ SEXTET
At our 2009 Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
The
Chicago Jazz Ensemble,
Jon Faddis Artist Director
The SPAM All-Stars
and
THE INDIANA UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE
LATIN RHYTHM SECTION WORKSHOP
At our 2008 Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
The
Tito Puente Alumni All-Star Big Band with Eddie Palmieri
DARREN KRAMER and the DKO ELECTRIC Qtet
THE UNIV. OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE
JAZZ ENSEMBLE
LATIN RHYTHM SECTION WORKSHOP
At our 2007 Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
DAVE
SAMUELS
and the CARIBBEAN JAZZ PROJECT
Recorded Nov. 5, 2005 at New Trier
SHERI
MARICLE and THE DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA
FALCONAIRES
(USAF Academy Jazz Ensemble)
GORAN IVANOVIC GROUP
At our 2006 Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
GORDON
GOODWIN'S
BIG PHAT BAND
THE TITO CARRILLO's JAZZ BODEGA
LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE
At our 2005 Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
BOB
MINTZER BIG BAND
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS JAZZ ENSEMBLE
MARK COLBY QUARTET
At our 2004 Frank Mantooth Jazz Festival
THE
SHADES OF BLUE
(Air Force Jazz Ens.)
THE RYAN COHAN SEXTET
At our 2003 Frank Mantooth Jazz
Festival
THE FRANK MANTOOTH
JAZZ ORCHESTRA
At our 1997 New Trier High School Jazz Festival
FRANK
MANTOOTH
TRIBUTE VIDEO

Our New Trier Jazz Ensemble I
was featured on the cover of the
Spring 2006 issue of the
Jazz Education Journal
(International Association of Jazz
Education)
Are
you an 8th grader in the New Trier Township District with questions
about joining "Freshman Jazz Ensemble"?
Then
CLICK
HERE
Did
you know that music majors have the highest rate of admittance to medical
school, higher than any other subject area including biochemistry,
chemistry and physics. (Rockefeller Foundation study that concluded by
suggesting that students eager to be admitted to medical school should be
music majors.)
Did
you know that students of the arts continue to outperform their non-arts
peers on the SAT, according to reports by the College Entrance Examination
Board. Want to
see!
Read
about the positive effects of music on learning.
NTJAZZ China
Tour 2000 Website
During the
summer of 2000, our Jazz Ensemble I, Chamber Orchestra, Bluegrass Band, and Dixieland Band
toured CHINA and JAPAN for almost two weeks Click here
to see our E-PHOTO GALLERY WITH MORE THAN 250 PICTURES...
If your school is
taking a major trip, you can download all the medical, legal, and
discipline forms we used... all are located on the China
Tour Handouts Section.
Click to download the three minute
promotional video for our China Tour DVD.
Anyone read Chinese?
Click
to see newspaper clippings about our groups while we were in China (with
translations).
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HERE
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