Jazz Ensemble

The Mundelein High School Jazz Ensemble is one of two curricular jazz bands that are audition-based and open to all 9th through 12th grade students. Throughout the school year the band performs over a dozen times in a variety of venues including concerts at the school, jazz festivals, and music clubs in the Chicagoland area including Fitzgerald’s Nightclub in Berwyn, Nellies in Palatine, The Venue in Aurora, and The Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

In the past several years the Mundelein High School Jazz Ensemble has been named Honor Band at the Purdue Jazz Festival, Eau Claire Jazz Festival, has been selected to perform three times at the Illinois Music Education Conference (2016, 2020, 2024) and selected to perform at the 75th Annual Midwest Clinic (2021). Recent guest artists have included Kellin Hanas (‘24), Marques Carroll (‘23), Bob Lark (’23), Sharel Cassity (‘22), Steve Weist (’22), Kirk Garrison (‘21), Michele Fernández (’21), Chris Madsen (‘21), Rob Parton (‘21), and Kim Nazarian (’19).

2024 – 2025 Mundelein Jazz Ensemble Repertoire

88 Basie Street by Sammy Nestico

A Child is Born by Thad Jones arr. Remy Le Boeuf

Armando's Rhumba by Chick Corea arr. Mike Tomaro

Cold Duck Time by Eddie Harris arr. Erik Morales

Espiritu Valiente by Ben Patterson

Haitian Fight Song by Charles Mingus arr. Sy Johnson

Have You Heard by Pat Metheny arr. Bob Curnow

I Feel the Earth Move by Carole King arr. Mike Sailors

Jackson County Jubilee by Benny Carter

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Anthony Johnson Showalter arr. Brandon Moore

Let Battle Clements by Callum Au

Letter from Home by Pat Metheny arr. Bob Curnow

Love and Peace by Quincy Jones arr. Roy Vombrack

MacArthur Park by Jimmy Webb arr. Mike Sailors

The Misinformation Age by Ben Patterson

Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller arr. Jeff Hest

Myself When I Am Mingus by Brian Stark

The Phrygian Five by Alan Baylock

Santa Baby by Joan Javits, Philip Springer, and Tony Springer arr. Gordon Goodwin

Spain by Chick Corea arr. John La Barbera

Sunset Glow arr. Benny Carter

The Planets Reimagined: Venus, Bringer of Peace by Gustav Holst arr. Jeremy Levy

The Sun Waited For Me by Maria Schneider

Three and One by Thad Jones

Togo by Dan White arr. Chris Ott

Willowcrest by Bob Florence

Work in Progress by Gordon Goodwin

You've Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman arr. Tr. D Kear

Jazz Ensemble Repertoire
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