all that jazz.

The jazz band for Sierra's high school held it's State championship jazz competition this past weekend, and Jon and I were so happy to have gone. We had never been able to go to any of their past performances because they usually fell on a school night where Jon was at work, and me being at home with her three younger siblings. 

Since this was the state championship Jon took a personal day off, and we headed towards Trenton to watch our daughter perform with the rest of the jazz band along with eight other bands from the state of New Jersey. 

They were all outstanding and I can tell that Mr. T who is their band director takes great pride in their extensive jazz ensemble. They always sound amazing, and their competition rocked the house as well. They all played so wonderfully each with their own unique touch in playing jazz. Sierra sure had a lot of fun making up her own sound.

It had been seven years since Highland made it to the state championship so they were all very excited to have made it in, and perform. They may not have taken home numerous awards like they did last year, but placing sixth out of nine bands in the entire state of New Jersey was awesome! That definitely has to account for something, and to me they are winners. 

Although I left with a headache it was one of our best Saturdays spent listening to other high school bands performing, and listening to our daughter play. That's what you get for sitting upfront! I think my ears are still ringing from that one drum solo, and trombone player! 

"When you see a jazz musician playing, you're looking at a pioneer, you're looking at an experimenter, you're looking at a scientist, you're looking at all those things because it's the creative process incarnate." ~Albert Murray