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Jazz Artist of the Week

BHS Jazz Ensemble I - Year 1
1 - Louis Armstrong - "Hot Fives and Hot Sevens"
2 - Louis Armstrong - "Vocals"
3 - Louis Armstong - "Other Awesome Tracks"
4 - Coleman Hawkins - "Hawk"
5 - Lester Young - "The Prez"
6 - Ben Webster - "The Brute"
7 - Johnny Hodges - "Rabbit"
​8 - Edward Ellington - "The Duke"
9 - William James Basie - "The Count"
10 - Benny Goodman - "King of Swing"
11- Charlie Parker - "The Bird"
12 - John Birks Gillespie - "Dizzy"
13 - Miles Davis - "Prestige Recordings"
14 - Miles Davis - "Birth of the Cool"
15 - Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"
16 - John Coltrane - "Giant Steps"
17 - Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Time Out"
18 - Thelonious Monk

19 - Sonny Rollins "Saxophone Colossus" 
20 - John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme"
21 - Ella Fitzgerald
​22 - J.J. Johnson "J.J."
24 - Clark Terry "CT"
25 - Max Roach
25. - Oscar Peterson
BHS Jazz Ensemble I - Year 2
1 - Louis Armstrong - "Collaborations"
2 - Sidney Bechet - "Beh-shay"
​3 - Billie Holiday - "Lady Day"
4 - Arthur Arshawsky - "Artie Shaw"

5 - Art Tatum - "The god of the piano"
6 - Clifford Brown - "Brownie"
7 - Oliver Nelson "Blues and the Abstract Truth"

8 - Stan Getz - "Getz / Gilberto"​
9 - Dexter Gordon - "GO"

10 - Art Blakey "The Jazz Messengers"
11 - Gerry Mulligan - "Jeru"
12 - Herbert Hancock - "Herbie"
13 - Buddy Rich
14 - Milt Jackson - "Bags"
15 - Charles Mingus - "Mingus Ah Um"
16 - Wes Montgomery

17 - Sarah Vaughan - "The Divine One"
18 - Wayne Shorter
19 - Freddie Hubbard
20 - Cannonball Adderley

21 - Chet Baker
22 - Joe Pass
23 - Chick Corea / Gary Burton - "Crystal Silence"

24 - Charles Mingus
25 - Stan Kenton Orchestra




- 11​​BHS Jazz Ensemble I - Year 3
1 - Louis Armstrong - "Great Tracks"
2 - Bix Beiderbecke
3 - Roy Eldridge
4 - Bud Powell
5 - Benny Golson
6 - Art Farmer
7 - John Hendricks
8 - Kurt Elling

9 - Sonny Stitt
​10 - Jaco Pastorius
11 - Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra
12 - The Marsalis Family 
​13 - Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
14 - Nat King Cole
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
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Joshua Redman
- Ornette Coleman
 - Lee Morgan
- Jim Hall

 - Pat Metheny
- Christian McBride
- Victor Wooten
- Brian Blade
- Horace Silver
Django Reinhardt


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702 South 5th Street
Brainerd, MN 56401
218-454-6200
Brainerd High School 
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400 Quince Street
Brainerd, MN 56401
218-454-5200
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12149 Knollwood Drive
Baxter, MN 56245
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