About TJYBF
The Trad Jazz Youth Band Festival (TJYBF) is an all-day festival dedicated to the performance and teaching of traditional jazz, with combo bands performing non-competitively. Every combo will receive feedback and lead-sheet clinics following its performance. The festival also includes an optional Friday evening pre-festival hosted jam session, master classes, evening showcase concert, lecture/demo, and admission to the next-day, STJS Jazz Sunday concert
  TJYBF is believed to be the only scholastic festival for Dixieland or traditional jazz, and is open to school bands, jazz club-sponsored bands, and independent youth bands.
  Anyone may purchase a festival pass to attend performances. For 2009, we welcome Lee "Westy" Westenhofer (tuba) as our guest artist/clinician.

  Download a flier with TJYBF qualifications and registration info (PDF file).

  Scroll down for complete info OR click on these links for specific info:
Eligibility | Festival Divisions | Judging Criteria | Prep. Resources
Perform. Times | Registation Fee | Registration | Registration Refunds
Tickets | Friday Jam Session | "Jazz Sunday" | Festival MAP
Parking | Travel & Accommodations | Campus Dining | Nearby Restaurants
Sponsorship and Ads | STJS | CSUS Jazz Studies | STJS Foundation

Eligibility
The TJYBF presents student ensembles playing traditional (trad) jazz. The term “traditional jazz” as used here means the various styles of New Orleans jazz and their outgrowths, encompassing styles sometimes called Dixieland, classic jazz, hot jazz, Chicago style, San Francisco style, etc. A hallmark of traditional jazz is the New Orleans tradition of several wind instruments playing polyphonically, i.e., ensemble improvisation. These styles are described in detail in the Style Guide on the Traditional Jazz Educators Network web site.
   Recordings in these styles are available at no charge from the Traditional Jazz Educators Network. A listing may be found at the TJEN Resource Library.
  Bands accepted to perform at the TJYBF must meet all of the following
   three criteria:
  • All band members are younger than 27 years of age.
  • The band performs in one or more of the styles described in the Style Guide.
  • No more than 9 musicians perform at a time. (This criterion is imposed because traditional jazz is a set of small-group styles; large groups lose the ability to weave meaningful improvised ensemble counterpoint.)

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Festival Divisions
Individual musicians will be eligible for over $4,500 of merit awards and scholarships:
  1. Elementary/Middle School Division: For bands consisting of students from elementary school through eighth grade.
  2. High School Division: For bands consisting of students from a single high school (grades 9-12).
  3. College Division: For bands consisting of students (each of whom is enrolled in at least 6 credits regardless of age) from a single college or university campus.
  4. Jazz Club-Sponsored/Other Division*: For bands that draw from more than one school. Bands in this division may be affiliated with a jazz society, private instructor, or may be self-directed.

(*Now that the festival is a non-competitive event, depending on the number of these bands enrolled in a given year, bands from the Jazz Club-Sponsored/Other division may be incorporated into performance venues for the Middle School, High School or College division that their general band composition most closely fits.)

New TJEN Judging Criteria
All bands will be adjudicated by jazz clinicians as follows:

• Group Improvisation - 20%
• Concept - 30%
• Individual Improvisation - 15%
• Stage Presence - 15%
• Cohesiveness - 10%
• Rhythm - 10%

  Adjudication considerations specific to traditional jazz performance will be provided upon registration.

Resources to help you prepare
The Traditional Jazz Educators Network (TJEN) maintains a comprehensive listing of commercially-available traditional jazz resources, including arrangements, transcriptions, lead sheets/“fake” books, play-along sets, method books, web sites and the like. TJEN also maintains a Resource Library of such materials that it makes available to educators at no charge.
The Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society has assembled a collection of lead sheets, in Concert C treble clef, for 100 “standard” traditional jazz tunes, which will be available for a $15 donation per binder, payable to STJS.

Performance Times
When planning your program, please keep in mind that your performance time slot of 25 minutes includes entry, set-up, announcements, performance (generally three or four tunes), and exit. We recommend that you program only 18-20 minutes of music and allow at least 5-7 minutes for entering and exiting the stage. The judges will impose an overtime penalty if a combo continues to perform past the end of its time limit.

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Registration Fee
The registration fee for the TJYBF is $100. This fee includes:
• All-events festival access for directors and individual band members
• STJS-hosted luncheon for band directors and clinicians
• Use of warm-up room prior to performance
  (no piano, amps or drums/cymbals provided)
• Adjudicated performance including feedback tape and forms
  (piano, bass/guitar amps and drums/cymbals provided)
• Feedback clinic based on performance (piano, amps, drums provided)
• Lead sheet clinics and sectionals.
• Friday evening, clinician-led Jam Session at Round Table Pizza.
• Noontime Jazz 'n' Pizza Mini-concert with the Clinicians All-Star Band.
• Awards and Encore Performances featuring outstanding festival bands.
• Evening All-Star Clinicians Concert featuring guest tubist Lee Westenhofer,   clarinet clinician Bob Draga, and the Clinicians All-Star Band.
• Complimentary admission for each band director, band student and
  one parent to the next-day STJS "Jazz Sunday" session at the nearby
  Dante Club from noon to 5 p.m.
• Select bands will be invited to perform on the Dante Club Main Stage
  and in the Gold Card Room for the "Jazz Sunday" session.
• Group band photos will be available for purchase.
• STJS jazz fake books in binders and CDs will be available for a donation.

Registration Form
Click here for Registration Form (PDF) that you may download now.
Please register as early as possible. We will try to meet scheduling preferences based on the date of registration and receipt of your registration fee. TJYBF staff will accept registrations until the festival is full. Final registration deadline is December 15, 2008.

Registration Refunds
Full refunds will be given if the festival is cancelled by Sac State Jazz Studies or STJS. Participant-initiated cancellations must be received before January 2, 2009 and will be subject to a $25 processing fee.

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Festival Passes & Concert Tickets
AT-THE-DOOR tickets sales: On Sat., Feb. 7th, band families, chaperones, and the general public may purchase all-events festival passes for $12 general, and this includes admission to the evening All-Star Clinicians Concert. There will be no admission charge for students 21 and under with school ID.
  ADVANCE ticket sales: Beginning in November, $10 advance tickets may be purchased at STJS "Jazz Sunday" concerts, the STJS Office, and from STJS board members. To get tickets from Ticket Chairperson Helen Robinson, e-mail h.robinson3@comcast.net or call her at (916) 947-2857.
   NOTE: Advance-ticket buyers will be entered into drawings for Red Lobster and Spaghetti Factory dinners-for-two.
  Please make checks payable to STJS and specify TJYBF on the memo line.

Friday Jam Session with Clinicians
As a pre-festival warmup, there's an open jam session on Friday night where festival participants can sit-in with the clinicians in front of an audience at Round Table Pizza (9138 Kiefer Blvd., Sac. - see JAM map). 6–8:30pm.

STJS "Jazz Sunday" concert
Lee "Westy" Westenhofer and Bob Draga, along with Eddie Erickson, are featured guest artists for the monthly meeting of the Sac. Trad. Jazz Society. Admission to "Jazz Sunday" at the Dante Club is by donation (prices subject to increase): $7 for members; $12 for non-members. Persons under 12 are admitted free. $3 for youth 12-20 (members); $5 for youth 12-20 (non-members). Admission tickets may be purchased at the door.

Festival Event Map
For visitor information, campus parking map, and driving directions to Sacramento State University: http://itweb.csus.edu/map/
  Click here to visit the MAP page of this website to view and download other maps that include Sac. State and the Dante Club (for "Jazz Sunday").
  All events will take place in Capistrano Hall. Parking passes will be provided for complimentary parking all day Saturday in the parking structure directly in front of Capistrano Hall.

Parking
All festival events will take place in Capistrano Hall.  Vehicles can be parked on the student side of Parking Structure #1, adjacent to Capistrano Hall.  After student drop off, buses may park in Student Lot 8, or Faculty/Staff Lot 1.  Please refer to the Sac State map for locations. Parking is free and open to the public on the day of the festival.

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Travel and Accommodations
Sacramento Convention and Visitor's Bureau
The Sacramento Convention & Visitors Bureau is pleased to be working in conjunction with the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society and can assist you with your hotel, transportation, dining and sightseeing needs for the Festival.
  Please contact Leticia Guevara at 800-292-2334; direct line 916-808-7781; or e-mail her at lguevara@cityofsacramento.org

Campus Dining
These food vendors will be open Sat. in the nearby University Union:
• Java City, Union Station, 8am-6pm
• Gordito Burrito, 8am-4pm
• Kung Fu Fats, 10am-3pm
• Round Table Pizza at the Hive, 11am-7pm
• Burger King Express, 11am-2pm
  Please note: Hours of operation are seasonal and subject to change.
  http://www.dining.csus.edu/hours.html

Nearby Restaurants
The following nearby restaurants offer good and affordable meals:
• Jack's Urban Eats - 2535 Fair Oaks Blvd. (Loehmann's Plaza)
• Applebee's - 2024 Arden Way (next door to Vagabond)
• Romano's Macaroni Grill - 2001 Alta Arden Expressway
• Mimi's Cafe - 2029 Alta Arden Expressway
• JJ North's Grand Buffet - 1030 Howe Ave.
• Chevy's Fresh Mex - 1234 Howe Ave.
• El Torrito Mexican Restaurant & Cantina - 1212 Howe Ave.
• Mongolian Bar B-Q by Great Wall - 1537 Howe Ave.
• Hoppy Brewing Company - 6300 Folsom Blvd
• Giovanni’s Pizzeria - 6200 Folsom Blvd.
• Dos Coyotes Border Café - 65th and Folsom Blvd.
• Jamba Juice - 65th and Folsom Blvd.
• Strings Italian Café - 65th and Folsom Blvd.