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RJAM Auditions

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Audition Requirements

If you have questions about your repertoire selections, please first consult with your current private teacher or other mentor.

Applicants must submit a prescreening recording with their application by the application deadline. Applicants must submit unedited audiovisual recordings.

Please prepare five selections from the following categories. Each selections should not exceed six minutes, and in total, should not exceed 30 minutes. You may select songs from the Final Audition list to fulfill one or more prescreening requirements.

  • Medium-tempo blues
  • Up-tempo jazz standard
  • Latin, rock, or funk tune
  • Ballad
  • Bebop tune

 

Select two songs from each genre.
GenreSongs
American Songbook/StandardsDon’t Get Around Much Anymore - C
In A Mellow Tone - Ab
In Your Own Sweet Way - Eb
Joy Spring - F
Just Friends - G
My Romance - Bb
On Green Dolphin St.
Up Jumped Spring - Bb
BalladAngel Eyes - C min
Body and Soul - Db
My One and Only Love - C
When Sunny Gets Blue - F
BebopAnthropology - Bb
Blues For Alice - F
Confirmation - F
Donna Lee - Ab
Groovin High - Eb
BluesBessie’s Blues - Eb
Billie’s Bounce - F
Straight, No Chaser - F
Tenor Madness - Bb
LatinBlue Bossa - C min
Desafinado - E
How Insensitive - D min
Recorda Me - A min
The Girl from Ipanema F
Drummers

In addition to the requirements listed above, be able to play a few bars of the following:

  • Swing feel medium and fast tempo
  • Brushes on a ballad
  • Funk pattern
  • Samba
  • Bossa
  • Songo

 

 

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