NEW YORK (AP) — Two first-time contestants have taken the top prizes at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 18th annual Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition.
At a Sunday-night concert at the Frederick P. Rose Hall, the first-place trophy and $5,000 award were presented by JALC artistic director Wynton Marsalis to the Tucson Jazz Institute’s Ellington Big Band directed by Doug Tidaback.
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