Straight Up & Beyond: ESYO Jazz

Schedule

Fri Nov 14 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

SUNY Schenectady County Community College | Schenectady, NY

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ESYO’s Youth Jazz and Repertory Jazz bands serve up swing, funk, Latin, and lush ballads in a set built to groove.
About this Event

This concert will be held in the Taylor Auditorium located in SUNY SCCC's Begley Building.


Youth Jazz fires up Gordon Goodwin’s Hit the Bricks, rolls into Les Hooper’s Engine N. 9, and shifts styles with Piazzolla’s Libertango (arr. Mossman). Hard-bop returns on Dexter Gordon’s Cheesecake (arr. Stitzel). The band changes the mood with Frank Mantooth’s reflective Remembrance, Strayhorn’s classic ballad Lush Life (arr. Tomaro), and Bonfá’s bossa Gentle Rain (arr. Berg). Pete McGuinness’s The Swagger brings modern swing, and Fillmore’s Lassus Trombone (arr. Wolpe) closes with vintage trombone smears and a grin.


Repertory Jazz spotlights Sweeney’s take on Santamaria’s Afro Blue (Afro-Cuban 6/8), Jeff Jarvis’s Steep and Deep (funk-driven lines), and Hancock’s Chameleon (arr. Sweeney), a cornerstone of jazz-funk.


Come hear young musicians lock the pocket, trade solos, and make these charts their own.


Repertoire:

Youth Jazz:

- Hit the Bricks - Gordon Goodwin

- Engine N. 9 - Les Hooper (composed and arranged)

- Libertango - Astor Piazzolla, Arr. Michael Philip Mossman

- Cheesecake - Dexter Gordon, Arr. Rick Stitzel

- Remembrance - Frank Mantooth

- Lush Life - Billy Strayhorn, Arr. Mike Tomaro

- Gentle Rain - Luiz Bonfa, Arr. Kris Berg

- The Swagger - Pete McGuinness

- Lassus Trombone - Henry Fillmore, Arr. Dave Wolpe

Repertory Jazz:

- Afro Blue - Mongo Santamaria, Arr. Michael Sweeney

- Steep and Deep - Jeff Jarvis

- Nap Town Blues - Wes Montgomery arr. Terry White

- Lil' Darlin - Neil Hefti arr. Phillippe

- Jumpin' at the woodside - arr. Paul Cook


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SUNY Schenectady County Community College, 78 Washington Avenue, Schenectady, United States

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