MOUNT VERNON SWINGIN’ STANGS

Scott Weber, Director | Featuring Desmond Cervantez*, Trumpet

FEELS SO GOOD (Chuck Mangione arr. Victor Lopez)

Saxophone: Marin Denes, Marquez Ireland, Klayten Perreault, Jonathan Winkler*, Noah Webster, Aiden Campbell

Trumpet: Gabriel Mahoney*, Uwen Boettcher, Nathaniel Lewis, Clare Nydegger, Eva Bishop, Sierra Snyder

Trombone: Megan Teague, Sarah Peterson, Claire Thuerauf, Beckett Johnson, Audrey Tucker, William Errington

Flute: Mollie Snedden |

Clarinet: Willa Turner* | Piano: Luke Stephens and Edith Dawson

Vibes: Elsie Owen |

Guitar: Adam Zehms | Bass: Nick Alles and Carrie Bybee | Drums: Lewis Krob

Auxiliary Percussion: Cyrus Johnson

About The Swingin' Stangs

Scott Weber is the director of the Swingin' Stangs Jazz Ensemble from Mount Vernon. They have been involved with the KCCK project since 2016 and have very much enjoyed their experiences of working with jazz artists throughout the corridor. The Mount Vernon Jazz Ensemble has received Division 1 ratings at State contest for the past 9 years and this year placed second at the Lisbon Jazz Festival.

About Desmond Cervantez:

Desmond Cervantez has Director of Bands at Solon High School since 1999. He also teaches applied trumpet lessons at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. Mr. Cervantez taught private brass lessons for many years, and he continues to maintain a small studio.

He has degrees from Southwest Baptist University and Truman State in Missouri. He is an avid performer and arranges works for his own quintet, the Cedar River Brass Quintet. He is principal trumpet of the Muscatine Symphony Orchestra. He also performs with groups such as the Josh Duffee Big Band and in the pit at Theatre Cedar Rapids. In addition to jazz band, he also directs the only high school Mariachi band we know of, Mariachi de Solon.