LAS VEGAS ( KLAS ) – Pupil musicians from the Jazz Outreach Initiative jamming at a neighborhood pizza joint.
Not simply one other Saturday night time at among the finest pizza eating places in Las Vegas, because of reside music from JOI’s Youth Jazz Orchestra.
Now a jazz scholar at UNLY, Andrew has solely good phrases about this system:
”The years of instructing and mentorship that I acquired on the Las Vegas Youth Jazz Orchestra have ceaselessly modified my life and trajectory as a musician.”
The coed musicians at Lucino’s Pizza on Tropicana close to the Walmart at Pecos are being mentored and accompanied by a few of the coolest jazz professionals on the town, like Eddie Wealthy on alto sax, the nice Latin Grammy nominated Cocho Arbe on piano and Dale Rampton on drums.
If she wasn’t busy together with her faculty research close to Dallas, Gianna Christensen would little doubt be bringing the vibe, too:
“After years of learning and performing with the Las Vegas Youth Jazz Orchestra playing trumpet, I’m now attending the University of North Texas College of Music on a scholarship for jazz. The experiences and support I received from my time at LVYJO shaped my music future, and I’d really love for other students to have the same opportunities that I did.”
The JOI of us sasy Gianna has come a great distance from the shy younger woman presumably headed within the fallacious path who was one of many first recipients of the jazz outreach initiative’s “Jazz Routes” program, the place a scholar not solely will get a free instrument, but in addition a 12 months’s price of classes.
See you at Lucino’s for some Saturday night time pizza and jazz?
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