** Updated on MAY 14th, 2025**
Starting in 2023, the SEOBDA membership decided to put together and Honor Jazz Ensemble. Auditions for this ensemble will take place during our auditions in November. This ensemble is for Grades 9-12. It contains all the same parts to the OkMEA All-State Jazz Auditions. The auditions music is as follows:
Audition Material can be purchased directly through the OKJE website.
Etudes for the Developing Jazz Musician
by Will Campbell
Etude No. 1
Stonemill Music
*New for 2025 - Lead Trumpet:
Lead Trumpet will to be its own instrument category.
*New for 2025 -Bass Trombone:
The Bass Trombone will to be its own instrument category.
Gordon Goodwin Play-Along Series Vol. 4
That’s How We Roll, p125, measures 1-58 (stop on the ‘and of 4’ in m58)
Demo 17 Play-Along 20
Drummers will also play sixteen bars each of the following styles:
Funk at 110 bpm
Swing at 110 bpm
Double-Time Swing at 220 bpm
Double-Time Swing Trading Fours (four bars of time, four bars of solo) at 220 bpm
Samba at 220 bpm
Jazz Waltz at 220 bpm
Drummers will play each sixteen-bar phrase in prescribed order, as one continuous etude, then after a short pause, play eight bars of swing ballad with brushes at 80 bpm
Sight-Reading:
All students will sight-read following their prepared audition
Improvisation:
An optional improvisation portion can add up to give additional points to the overall score. Interested students will play two, twelve-bar blues choruses in the key of F. The accompaniment source for the audition is from Maiden Voyage, Vol. 54, track #10 Tootsie (Jamey Aebersold, Inc., www.jazzbooks.com). This portion of the audition is optional but strongly encouraged.