Welcome to the Jazz Ensemble page!
Vendor Information
OkMEA
Attn: Jazz Ensemble
PO Box 886
Muskogee, OK, 74402
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Student Eligibility
Students must be a member in good standing of their high school music organization. They have to attend all rehearsals and performances of their OkMEA All-State organization and abide by the Rules of Conduct. Students must be eligible academically under OSSAA guidelines at the time of auditions and at the time of the festival.
Deadlines and Fees
First Deadline – September 13, 2025
– $20.00 per student
Second Deadline – September 20, 2025
– $45.00 per student
Emergency Deadline – Contact Jazz Chair
– $100.00 per student
Audition Dates
November 22, 2025
Midwest City High School
Horns, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Vibes
Audition Material can be purchased directly through the OKJE website.
Etudes for the Developing Jazz Musician
by Will Campbell
Etude No. 1
Stonemill Music
Lead Trumpet:
Lead Trumpet will continue to be its own instrument category.
Bass Trombone:
The Bass Trombone will continue to be its own instrument category.
Drummers
Gordon Goodwin Play-Along Series Volume 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
The audition site will provide a drum set. Students who want to use their own drum set need to set-up in the band room by 8:00am on the day of the audition.
Sight-Reading and Improv
Sight-Reading:
All students will sight-read following their prepared audition
Improvisation:
An optional improvisation audition 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 separate audition is optional but strongly encouraged. Those who are auditioning on multiple ‘like’ instruments will only improvise once.
OCDA Choir Rhythm Section
The selected rhythm section for the jazz ensemble will also perform for the All-OCDA High School Jazz Chorus at the OCDA conference, held the week before the OkMEA Conference in January.
Matt Lollman, All-State Jazz Ensemble Chair
