This past September Mountain View High School junior Preston Fisher won the Silver Medal (Male Solo Junior Division) in the 2023 IDO World Tap Dance Championship held in Germany. His winning piece PENNIES FROM HEAVEN was choreographed by TJI alum (2017) Brendan Kellam who helped the TJI Ellington Big Band win first place in the …
Preston Fisher, Silver Medalist, to perform PENNIES FROM HEAVEN with TJI Read More »
Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Big Band members and guests were treated to a special and intimate performance by the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West | Latin Band Group, on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, at Utterback Middle School Auditorium, Tucson. This was a free and open-to-the-public performance and it also turned into …
AIR FORCE BAND of the Golden West Performance & Latin Music Clinic | Dec 5, 2023 Read More »
It’s not often in Tucson you can bring tap dancers together with jazz musicians, but we were able to accomplish this for the Charlie Parker & Dave Brubeck Centennial Celebration School Show (belated from 2020) held on May 8, 2023, at Utterback Middle School (TUSD) in Tucson. Charlie Parker invented the bebop language and tap …
Ongoing donations to the Tucson Jazz Institute (TJI) Ben Stowers Scholarship Fund allow us to continue remembering Ben, his kindness, and his love of jazz music through awarding scholarships to middle and high school students and sponsorships of travel expenses to festivals and guest artists. To donate, you may use the PayPal links on this website …
The Tucson Jazz Institute bid farewell at their Spring Concert (May 14, 2023) to 14 seniors. All but one were in the TJI Ellington Big Band and they are leaving with a skillset not many high schoolers have the opportunity to achieve in Arizona. The Tucson Jazz Music Foundation is so very happy to have …
The Tucson Jazz Institute Ellington Big Band says THANK YOU to the donors and Travel Sponsors of their recent trip to NYC and the Essentially Ellington Regional Festival held at the Newark Academy in New Jersey on April 15, 2023 – host and organizer Julius Tolentino. Special thank you to long-time travel sponsor JACK FURRIER …
TJI Ellington Big Band performance at The Century Room May 15, 2023 – Tucson’s JAZZ CLUB within Hotel Congress – VIEW HERE while waiting for the concert to begin.
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