Band at Nellie's Event 2025

Jazz Ensemble

Honors Jazz Ensemble 2025-2026

 

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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, and performed at the Elmhurst University Jazz Festival.  The Mundelein Jazz Ensemble 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 Jon Irabagon ('25), 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).


 

 

2025 – 2026 Mundelein Jazz Ensemble Repertoire

All the Things You Are by Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein arr Stan Kenton
Ask Not by Ted Nash
Blue Yonder by Christine Jensen
Blues for Mr. P by Jim Martin
Doxy by Sonny Rollins arr. Jim Martin
Hummingbird Waltz by Faye Townsend arr. Brandon Moore
Lava Cake by Eric Weaver
Love for Sale by Cole Porter arr. Pete Myers
Mission to Monterrey by Matt Catingub
Mr. Dazzler by Jon Irabagon Jon arr. Kyle Saulnier
Puddle Jumping by Marshall Gilkes
Santa Clause in Coming to Town arr. Dave Wolpe
Still Water by Jon Irabagon arr. Chris Madsen
Super Mario Bros. by Koji Kondo arr Mikey Votano
That's What I Thought by Paul McKee
Wave by Antonio Carlos Jobim arr. John La Barbera
Wiggle Walk by Benny Carter
Won't You Be My Neighbor by Fred Rogers arr. Mike Tomaro

 

Jazz Ensemble Repertoire
2013-current


Conference Performance Programs from Past Years

IMEC 2024

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Midwest Clinic 2021

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IMEC 2020

MHS Jazz Ensemble
 

IMEC 2016

MHS Jazz IMEC
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Jazz Resources

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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