Essentially Ellington 2019 FINAL CONCERT: Roosevelt High School - Things to Come

Live from the 2019 Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, it's Roosevelt High School from Seattle, WA playing Duke Ellington's "Blues to be There."
Learn more about Essentially Ellington: academy.jazz.org/ee/

[@youtubeaccount1661]

I never thought Tucson would be out things-to-come'd... I was wrong. Stellar performance Roosevelt, y'all deserved that first place spot 🙏 literally every soloist was absolutely outstanding

[@tab9856]

That drummer 🙏

[@prod.sardoniiq6942]

4:12 YES STOP TIME

[@roosterslime9430]

*Director: Scott Brown*
*Solos:*
Drums: Henry Mohr (0:05, 4:59)*
Trumpet: Carter Eng (0:41, 1:29, 5:05)**
Trumpet: Will Knight (1:07, 1:29, 5:21)**
Vibraphone: Nate Mesler (2:15)*
Tenor Sax: George Fulton (2:59)**
Alto Sax: Eli Sullivan (3:48)**
Bass Trombone: Toby Jay (5:13)
* = Honorable Mention Award
** = Outstanding Award
***1st Place in Essentially Ellington Competition***
*Full Awards List*
*Sectional Awards:*
*Outstanding Trombone Section:* Elise Toney (Lead)**, Zach Sahlin, Nick Mesler, Toby Jay (Bass), Alexis Kim (Offstage)
*Outstanding Trumpet Section:* Will Knight (Lead)** , Colin Brace, Carter Eng** , Rei Ichikawa
*Outstanding Brass Section:* Elise Toney (Lead Trombone)** , Zach Sahlin (Trombone), Nick Mesler (Trombone), Toby Jay (Bass Trombone), Will Knight (Lead Trumpet)** , Colin Brace (Trumpet), Rei Ichikawa (Trumpet), Carter Eng (Trumpet)**, Alexis Kim (Offstage)
*Honorable Mention Soloist Award:*
Aaron Korver (Piano)
Nate Mesler (Vibraphone)
Henry Mohr (Drums)
*Outstanding Soloist Award:*
George Fulton (Tenor Sax)
Nick Altemeier (Baritone Sax)
Elise Toney (Trombone)
Will Knight (Trumpet)
Carter Eng (Trumpet)
Eli Sullivan (Doubler: Soprano Sax, Alto Sax)
*Highlight: **5:13*

[@tobyjay8774]

roosterslime4119 that’s me in the highlight! Thanks!

[@roosterslime9430]

@@tobyjay8774 I wish I was there live... I was watching the performance online and when I expected that trombone solo, then I was just blown away. Killing tone man!

[@Grandtrunk]

Don’t forget that tremendous bassist

[@maurycykujawski6344]

Sounds even better than "Things to Come" from last year :O

[@stpd1957]

Gorgeous playing, I love it

[@ramonestrada962]

Such an amazing performance, outstanding 👌🏼

[@albiondi4078]

AMAZING YOUNG SUPER TALENTED PEOPLE!

[@adrianguev1294]

Lead alto sounds like Bird with a little of Paquito D' Rivera in it👌🏼😋😋

[@sinethembayantolo]

This is aggressively nice ... 🔥 The solos the arrangements, everything is just superb 🔥🔥

[@Noahjohnston24]

WOW!

[@brickblock369]

Wow, the trumpeters and the alto saxophonist are so good... :O

[@BrennenL]

Dude. This was fkn incredible!

[@ryr.j]

Lmao LOVED that bass trombone solo at the end 3 notes can really go a long way 😂

[@SeanLeonDrumz]

Burnin'

[@jaimie1]

ralph dibny on the drums

[@nick_d2]

Why did the vibraphone player only get an honorable mention?? That was a killer performance

[@hughjayn1s]

Judges acting like playing that fast on vibraphone ain’t hard, and he made it sound good. Should’ve been an outstanding award

[@TheEvertonDias]

where this young teenager learned this?

[@reibee888]

bruh moment

[@eichi4348]

Rei Ichikawa Sick solo dude, powered by bruhmus momentus

[@jamespettis2380]

lol

[@andrewli4484]

3:20 Sounding like Ben Wendel!

[@diegensehaut]

Wtf

[@hughjayn1s]

Why is the highlight of the bass trombone guy. No offense, but it’s obviously the two trumpeters going back and forth

[@HarrisonHasegawa]

Because bass trombone is infinitely sillier