Jazz Outreach Initiative and UNLV School of Music, Division of Jazz & Commercial Music present the 6th Annual Las Vegas Regional Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival Final Concert!  

Licensed by Jazz at Lincoln Center, this two-day festival is the most prestigious of the 18 regionals featuring award-winning high school big bands from across the western United States. In addition to the Competition & Festival in New York City each May, Essentially Ellington co-produces regional non-competitive, education-focused festivals designed to offer high school jazz bands of all levels the opportunity to perform the music of Duke Ellington and other seminal big band composers and arrangers at various locations across the country. Participating bands receive professional feedback from JALC clinicians and other jazz professionals in their own backyard.