CAP All-Star Jazz Ensemble Reunion Big Band

The Community Arts Program (CAP) with its 2023 Summer Concert Series is thrilled to present the CAP ALL-STAR Jazz Ensemble Reunion Big Band. The Ensemble began in 2009 to provide Miami-Dade County youth with a professional experience in ensemble jazz playing, including big band. The experience sharpens sight reading, style, technique, improv, rhythm, recording studio skill, college prep, career development, and team building. All of this through the practical study and performance of works that span jazz standards and contemporary works to its recent engagement of a curriculum that presents newly-composed works by Ensemble members. This event presents Ensemble members from 2009 to its most recent 2023 graduate. June 8 promises a fun and energetic evening with big band charts of the giants like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Neal Hefti, and others. In recent years, the ensemble has appeared at Jazz at Lincoln Center as part of its Essentially Ellington and South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center as part of its concert series. Highlights also include opening for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (twice), Count Basie Orchestra and Doc Severinsen, among others. The CAP All-Star Jazz Ensemble is one of four CAP performing groups, three CAP Creative Strings ensembles and the CAP Jazz PREP Band. Each is part of the CAP after-school Conservatory and Miami Jazz Institute. More at communityartsprogram.org.