Auditions for a House Band at Your Swing Jazz Club
House Band Auditions Objective: listen to the various bands within the Swing style, pick a band as the house band at your new club, create an online advertisement (perhaps using PowerPoint) or homepage (using Microsoft Word or a web editor) to advertise your club and band by discussing the band’s stylistic characteristics.
My idea for a sample is the epitome of all jazz clubs – New York’s Cotton Club in Harlem. Duke Ellington, an African-American, was the swing-style house band leader for many years and really gave the Cotton Club its well-deserved reputation as a Mecca for jazz musicians. The website for the Cotton http://cottonclub-newyork.com/ -opens in a new tab. To close the tab with your keyboard in Chrome, press Ctrl+w, or Ctrl+F4) is worth a bit of time to research. Their homepage is, of course, exceptional. Your advertisement or homepage may not be as thorough – and that is to be expected. However, if someone in your small group is a Web designer, your page could be very cool.
House Band for a new club
Artists that have arrived to audition for your new club are:
Benny Goodman
Fletcher Henderson
Tommy Dorsey
Roy Eldridge
Bunny Berigan
Jack Teagarden
Glenn Miller
Art Tatum
Benny Carter
Harry James
Buddy Rich
Lester Lanin
Erskine Hawkins
Errol Garner
Don Byas
Eddie Metz
Eddie Daniels
Fatz Waller
Lester Lannin
Gordon Goodwin
Mezz Mezzrow
Mugsy Spanier
Rosemary Clooney
Roy Eldridge
Sarah Vaughan
Willie “The Lion” Smith
Stan Kenton
(To listen to the artists listed above, please visit the “Swing Musicians” folder found inside Week #6.)
For each artist that auditions, you will need to give them appropriate feedback about why they weren’t selected. This is usually done via a simple adjudication form such as this:
Instrument We Want to Hire:Instrument Artist Plays:Artist’s use of the Swing style characteristics:
Rubric that will be used for grading your group’s advertisement / homepage:
Scoring mechanism: 3 pts – critical, 2 pts – important, 1 pt – bells & whistles
Criteria
Possible
Your Score
Viewable document (homepage or ad) posted in discussion board
3
A single style period is presented
3
Artist feedback is available in a Word document and posted, too
3
Advertisement/homepage is submitted/viewable on time
3
House band leader is named (winner of the audition)
3
Musical style characteristics of the new leader are discussed
3
Location of the club is named (street, city, state, etc)
2
Operating hours of the club are available
2
Club has a name
2
Atmosphere/nature of the club is obvious in advertisement
2
Signature dinner or drink of the club
1
Club has a unique sign/symbol/monogram
1
Testimonials from TV/Movie stars include in advertisement/homepage
1
Sound clips are available/present on homepage
1
History of your club or development of your club is available
1
Rental space/catering/private parties are discussed
1
Total
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Artists that have arrived to audition for your new club are:
Benny Goodman
Fletcher Henderson
Tommy Dorsey
Roy Eldridge
Bunny Berigan
Jack Teagarden
Glenn Miller
Art Tatum
Benny Carter
Harry James
Buddy Rich
Lester Lanin
Erskine Hawkins
Errol Garner
Don Byas
Eddie Metz
Eddie Daniels
Fatz Waller
Lester Lannin
Gordon Goodwin
Mezz Mezzrow
Mugsy Spanier
Rosemary Clooney
Roy Eldridge
Sarah Vaughan
Willie “The Lion” Smith
Stan Kenton
(To listen to the artists listed above, please visit the “Swing Musicians” folder found inside Week #6.)
Pick six (6) swing artists from above to audition. For each artist that auditions, you will need to give them appropriate feedback about why they weren’t selected. This is usually done via a simple adjudication form such as this: Instrument We Want to Hire: Instrument Artist Plays: Artist’s use of the Swing style characteristics:
Rubric that will be used for grading your group’s advertisement / homepage:
Scoring mechanism: 3 pts – critical, 2 pts – important, 1 pt – bells & whistles
Criteria
Possible
Your Score
Viewable document (homepage or ad) posted in discussion board
3
A single style period is presented
3
Artist feedback is available in a Word document and posted, too
3
Advertisement/homepage is submitted/viewable on time
3
House band leader is named (winner of the audition)
3
Musical style characteristics of the new leader are discussed
3
Location of the club is named (street, city, state, etc)
2
Operating hours of the club are available
2
Club has a name
2
Atmosphere/nature of the club is obvious in advertisement
2
Signature dinner or drink of the club
1
Club has a unique sign/symbol/monogram
1
Testimonials from TV/Movie stars include in advertisement/homepage
1
Sound clips are available/present on homepage
1
History of your club or development of your club is available
1
Rental space/catering/private parties are discusse
PLESAE I NEED THE PROJECT
