The Fairfield Jazz Ensemble

From October to the end of the school year, students from the Fairfield Center School Band are offered the opportunity to participate in the Fairfield Jazz Ensemble. Rehearsals are on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 2:40 in the Common School. This group performs in the Fairfield School December Holiday Concerts, the June Spring Concerts, the Lester Bowie Jazz Festival at St. Albans City School in April, and on Church Street at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival in June. This fifteen to eighteen piece (member) ensemble of serious and dedicated students focuses on reading (playing) jazz charts, studying popular jazz repertoire and learning to improvise (play a solo, without music). Many students also "double" on instruments such as clarinet/saxophone, mallet instruments/piano and percussion instruments/drum set and beyond.