Performing Gr oups HOOVER FIRST EDITION JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Hoover “First Edition” Jazz Band is under the direction of Mrs. Sallie Vines White. First Edition performs at many school and civic functions throughout the school year. Membership in the group is by audition. The group’s instrumentation consists of 5 saxophones, 5 trombones, 5 trumpets, full rhythm section and a vocalist. The group performs a variety of music from the big band era and today. They do numerous performances for a wide variety of venues. The First Edition Jazz Band has received national recognition through its selection as a finalist in the Savannah Music Festival Swing Central Jazz Contest for the past 4 years. As part of this festival, they have had the opportunity to have clinics with internationally known artists and clinicians. These artists have included Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Printup, Jason Marsalis,
Jim Ketch, Leon Anderson, Jack Wilkins, Terrell Stafford, and others. Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Printup, and Leon Anderson have all come to Hoover High School to do intensive on-site clinics with the group. Prior to their selection to Swing Central they were selected into the North Texas Jazz Festival and also received Superior ratings for 6 years in a row at the Loyola Jazz Festival in New Orleans. The group is regularly represented in the Alabama All-State Jazz Band. In 2011, nine members of First Edition were represented in the Alabama All State Jazz Bands.
Sallie Vines White teaches full-time at Hoover High School in Hoover, Alabama. Mrs. White has been teaching in the Hoover City School System since 1990. Prior to that time she taught for 5 years in the Bessemer City School System. She teaches the award-winning Hoover High School First Edition Jazz Band, Symphonic Band, and AP Music Theory. She is also an associate director with the marching band. The groups she conducts have consistently received Superior ratings at contests including District, State, and Jazz Contests. The First Edition Jazz Band has received national recognition through its selection as a finalist in the Savannah Music Festival Swing Central Contest for the past 4 years. Prior to that they were selected into the North Texas Jazz Festival and also received Superior ratings for 6 years in a row at the Loyola Jazz Festival in New Orleans. Many of her students through the years have been selected into All State Jazz groups. Sallie Vines White graduated magna cum laude from Anderson University in 1982, with a B.A. in Music Education and Psychology and “with honors” in psychology. In 1985, she received her M.M.E. in Music Education from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN where she graduated “with distinction”. Sallie is an active performer on all the woodwind instruments. She has played engagements as a side musician with Stevie Wonder, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Andy Williams, Joan Rivers, Ray Charles, Linda Eder, the Bill Gaither Trio and many others. She has performed as a musician in over 125 theatre productions in the state of Alabama. Sallie has played numerous engagements with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra on saxophone. She plays lead alto in the Superjazz Big Band, and tenor saxophone in the Cahaba Saxophone Quartet. She toured for several years in various groups including Bridge, the Bill Gaither Trio, and college groups performing in 47 states and 17 countries. In addition to her performing and her full-time teaching position, Mrs. White is also the saxophone instructor at Samford University.
Concert Program Thursday, Jan. 19, 1:00 pm
Sweet Georgia
Brown.........Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard and Kenneth Casey arr. Sammy Nestico......... 1982 Warner Brothers, Inc St. Louis Blues ......................................WC Handy, arr. by Mike Collins-Dowden ......................2010 Jalen Publishing The Defibrillator
.......................Adrien Re ....2010 Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. a division of Alfred Music Publishing Co. Inc Falling...............................................................................Les Hooper ............. ......................... 2009 Sierra Music Publications Grease Bucket..............................................................Wycliffe Gordon ..........Published by
The Savannah Music Festival
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Dere..........................................................by Bobby Timmons, arr. by Erik Morales ....................... 2011 Belwin Jazz Series Afro
Blue.................................................Mongo Santamaria, arr. by Michael Philip Mossman............ 2004 Hal Leonard Corp. Freddie
Freeloader...........................................Miles Davis, arr. by Les Hooper......................2010 Hal Leonard Corp. Mr.
Flamingo............................................Alden Michaels (Junior at Hoover High School)
..................................Not published In The Mood
...................................................Joe Garland, arr. by Jerry Nowack........................................................Hal Leonard
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