The Sun Prairie High School Jazz Band took home the third-place trophy from the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 13th Annual Essentially Ellington competition this weekend.
Two high school jazz bands from Seattle took home the top honors in the competition that culminated with a Saturday night concert, in which they performed with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis as guest soloist.
Marsalis, JALC’s artistic director, presented the first-place trophy to Scott Brown, director of the Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, during the awards ceremony and concert at Avery Fisher Hall.
Seattle’s Garfield High School Jazz Band took second place, but it boasted the winner of the Outstanding Soloist Award in clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Carl Majeau.