Jazz Ensemble & Big Band
The MOHS Jazz Ensemble and Big Band are extra-curricular courses that provide students with basic and advanced instruction in jazz-related rhythms, tone, style, listening skills, and improvisation. The goal of these performing ensembles is to give interested students an opportunity to study and play classic and contemporary literature, while also learning about the history and relevance of the selections, composers, and genre.
The ensembles have performed and competed at jazz festivals both local and national levels and have also been invited to share the stage with college and professional groups, most notably, the Berklee High School Jazz Festival. Jazz Ensemble has had the opportunity to perform for the NJMEA convention as a featured ensemble, consecutively placed in the NJ state finals for NJAJE jazz ensemble competition, and also performed at the world famous Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC.
See some of our shows below!
Director: Darrell Hendricks
2020 NJ Jazz Season Wrap Up
2019 NJAJE State Finals "West Side Story"
Blues in Hoss' Flat
Sandshore Elementary School
498 Sandshore Rd
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
973-691-4003
Mountain View Elementary School
118 Cloverhill Drive
Flanders, NJ 07836
973-927-2201
Chester M. Stephens Elementary School
99 Sunset Drive
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
973-691-4002
Mt. Olive Middle School
160 Wolfe Road
Budd Lake, NJ 07828
973-691-4006
Mt. Olive High School
18 Corey Road
Flanders, NJ 07836
973-927-2208