YOU CAN HEAR the music
playing well down the hall —
loud, enthusiastic and
swinging. Students lounge
inside the rehearsal room,
hovering on the edge of the
music, listening and tapping
their feet to the beat.

It isn't the usual kind of
music you associate with
high school bands, but it isn't
a typical high school band
that's rehearsing today — 11's
the Carson Graham Jazz.
Band One, and it's preparing
for the concert it’s hosting al
the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
op Saturday

The sound ts smooth and
melodic, and Wo you close
your ¢yes you can pretend

TERRY LAVENDER

you're” listening to a
professional big band.

But then something sounds
shghtly off. and the con-
ductor halts the
proceedings.

“Okay, gang, we lost it on
the easy part’ Da DIUM da
dum. Don't lose it on the
easy parts. Youre playing
the hard parts better than
you are the easy parts ”

And conductor Rob Karr
raises his hand and the music
begins again

Saturday's show wall be
the — third Carson
Graham Jazz

annual
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Jazz students prepare for festival

Band Festival, and will
feature bands from Chaffey

College in Los Angeles,
Soundwave (the Vancouver
Community College Jazz

Choir), UBC Jazz Band One.
and special guest soloist Bill
Watrous, who will wield his
trombone along with the
Carson Graham band —
after only one hour of
rehearsing with the band.
Karr admits he and the
school are taking a msk by
staging the festival at the
Queen Elizabeth Last year
the festval sold) out the
North Vancouver Cen-
tennial Theatre — but that
only seated 700 people. The
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“There are not a lot of
schools that would take on a
venture like this,” Karr says.
But there are not many
schools with a jazz program
like Carson Graham's.
Though the school had no
such program when Karr
arrived 13 years ago, he and
his colleagues Peter Taylor
(also director of the VCC
Jazz Choir) and Brian
Fairholm (who writes much
of the jazz band’s music),
have built an outstanding
jazz program, encompassing
two bands and a yazz choir.
The Jazz Band One was
named best Semor Canadian
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