2023 Alabama All State High School Gold Band Concert

ALABAMA ALL STATE GOLD HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND
TODD STOLL, CLINICIAN
0:00 Comments, Ben Posey
1:47 Who, Me?, Frank Foster
5:57 Comments, Todd Stoll
6:45 Whisper Not, Benny Golson
11:09 Comments, Todd Stoll
13:00 The Ponderous Pachyderm of the Planks, Sherman Irby
17:55 Comments, Todd Stoll
19:18 Bag a’ Bones, Johnny Lytle, arr. DeLancey
23:22 Comments, Todd Stoll
25:04 The Second Line (from New Orleans Suite), Duke Ellington, transcr. by David Berger
29:55 Comments, Todd Stoll
31:25 Good Bait, Tadd Dameron and Count Basie
35:41 Comments, Todd Stoll
38:05 2/3's Adventure, Carlos Henriquez (partial recording)
GOLD BAND ROSTER
Alto Saxophones
Cason Colville, lead, Hoover High School
Tristen Bodiford, Gulf Shores High School
Tenor Saxophones
Tristan Trees, Sparkman High School
William Youngblood, Prattville High School
Baritone Saxophone
Andrew Hamner, Auburn High School
Trumpets
Noah Bender, lead, Hewitt-Trussville High School
Parker Smith, Hewitt-Trussville High School
Kemp Horn, Hoover High School
Connor Creighton, Helena High School
Marek Ledvina, Alabama School of Fine Arts
Trombones
Davis Brewster, lead, Grissom High School
Ben Dyer, Oak Mountain High School
David Kintner, Tuscaloosa County High School
Nick Tran, Hoover High School
Bass Trombone
Gibson Purser, Bob Jones High School
Piano
John Roberts, Mountain Brook High School
Guitar
Jon Douglas Richey, Tuscaloosa County High School
Bass
Brandon Thrasher, Thompson High School
Drumset
Josiah Thompson, Madison County High School
Auxiliary Percussion
Reid Ramsbacher, Mountain Brook High School
Vibraphone
Creed Allen, Mountain Brook High School
TODD STOLL - GOLD BAND
Todd Stoll was raised in Springfield, Ohio. He studied trumpet at the University of Cincinatti’s Conservatory of Music and later studied with Vaughn Wiester. Initially focusing on performing, Stoll went on the road performing after graduation. In the early 90s, Stoll became a band director in the Columbus, Ohio area, where he founded the Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra in 1991 to give young people the chance to cultivate a love of jazz through performance. The Columbus Youth Jazz Orchestra is a highly competitive jazz band geared primarily towards very talented high school musicians in the central Ohio area. Stoll directed it for 20 years. Under his direction, the Orchestra released 6 CDs.
In addition to the Youth Jazz Orchestra, Stoll also created and oversaw the Columbus Youth Jazz Studio Ensemble and the Columbus Youth Jazz Workshop. The Studio Ensemble and Workshop provided a pipeline to the Orchestra, training young musicians new to jazz with other students already playing in the genre. Through these three bands, Stoll impacted the lives of hundreds of young people in central Ohio. Stoll's passion for jazz attracted talented student musicians from the entire region, even those who weren't initially interested in jazz.
A longtime friend and colleague of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, Stoll joined the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Education Department in 2011, becoming the Vice President of Education. Under his leadership, the education department has expanded its community outreach through band performances in New York City with the Jazz for Young People on Tour program and through educational outreach led by members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra while the orchestra is on tour.
Stoll oversaw the creation and launch of the Jazz Academy, an online education site featuring a freely accessible video library of jazz lessons taught by musicians including Eric Reed, Helen Sung, Gary Bartz, and Azar Lawrence. Stoll is an avid fan of Duke Ellington calling him “a universal humanist”.

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