2019-2020 MSU JAZZ ORCHESTRA, JAZZ BAND and JAZZ COMBO AUDITIONS
Audition Music for all instruments included on this PDF.
Guitar, Bass, Drums, and Aux Percussion have two pages, all others have one.
All saxes: Audition on whatever you have - We will worry about part assignments later.
There are separate auditions for tenor and bass trombones - the parts are too diverse for just one.
Please print out or save your part to your iPad to help save paper and expense.
The JAZZ ORCHESTRA audition is for the year (except for seniors) as there is a major festival
appearance planned for that group in the spring. Openings created by graduating seniors will be
auditioned in November. JAZZ BAND and JAZZ COMBOS will audition both semesters.
JAZZ LAB WILL NOT BE OFFERED THIS FALL.
No vocal auditions at this time.
AUDITIONS WILL BE IN THE JAZZ SUITE (3004) ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 from 12:00 to 5:00.
You will be able to sign up for a time from next week on Dr. Todd Hill's office door (518).
The audition will take five minutes: Play your short written excerpt, about 16 bars of sight-reading,
and you may or may not elect to improvise on a Bb Blues with a Jamey Aebersold CD. Improvising can
only HELP your score - it will not take away any points.
Rhythm players: If you have very little experience - IT'S OKAY! Don't be afraid to audition! We are here for
you to LEARN about playing jazz. Many of our jazz program graduates are actively playing music for a living,
in ALL genres! This is where it starts! See you on Wednesday, August 21st!
Dr. Todd E. Hill
Professor of Music
Director of Jazz Studies
thill@murraystate.edu
Audition Music for all instruments included on this PDF.
Guitar, Bass, Drums, and Aux Percussion have two pages, all others have one.
All saxes: Audition on whatever you have - We will worry about part assignments later.
There are separate auditions for tenor and bass trombones - the parts are too diverse for just one.
Please print out or save your part to your iPad to help save paper and expense.
The JAZZ ORCHESTRA audition is for the year (except for seniors) as there is a major festival
appearance planned for that group in the spring. Openings created by graduating seniors will be
auditioned in November. JAZZ BAND and JAZZ COMBOS will audition both semesters.
JAZZ LAB WILL NOT BE OFFERED THIS FALL.
No vocal auditions at this time.
AUDITIONS WILL BE IN THE JAZZ SUITE (3004) ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 from 12:00 to 5:00.
You will be able to sign up for a time from next week on Dr. Todd Hill's office door (518).
The audition will take five minutes: Play your short written excerpt, about 16 bars of sight-reading,
and you may or may not elect to improvise on a Bb Blues with a Jamey Aebersold CD. Improvising can
only HELP your score - it will not take away any points.
Rhythm players: If you have very little experience - IT'S OKAY! Don't be afraid to audition! We are here for
you to LEARN about playing jazz. Many of our jazz program graduates are actively playing music for a living,
in ALL genres! This is where it starts! See you on Wednesday, August 21st!
Dr. Todd E. Hill
Professor of Music
Director of Jazz Studies
thill@murraystate.edu