Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Ninth Annual Mile High-Carson High
Jazz Extravaganza
at the Carson City Community Center

It's "big-band jazz times two" when the Mile High Jazz Band presents the ninth annual Mile High-Carson High Jazz Extravaganza, on Tuesday, January 24, 2011, 7:30 p.m., at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William St., Carson City. The concert, sponsored by the Carson High Jazz Band and the Mile High Jazz Band Association, is a benefit for the Carson High Jazz Band programs.

Tickets prices are $12.00 general admission, $10.00 students and seniors, and $5.00 for youth age 12 and under. Tickets are available from Carson High School music students. Tickets are also available at Play Your Own Music in the Carson Mall. Call 775-883-4154 for up-to-date ticket information. Tickets can be ordered online via Activity Tickets at http://carsoncity.activitytickets.com/activity/108. A service charge applies for online sales.

The Extravaganza will include two big bands, a combo performance, and a grand finale combining the forces of both big bands. "I am pleased that the Mile High Jazz Band has been asked to support the high school jazz band again," said David Bugli, Mile High Jazz Band leader and pianist. "The high school music ensembles are talented and goal-oriented, and they deserve the community's help and encouragement. I'm looking forward to another round of intergenerational musical swing!"

The Carson High Jazz Band attends and competes at jazz festivals each year. With support from the Jazz Extravaganza and other fundraisers, the Carson High Jazz Band plans to attend the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in Moscow, Idaho, towards the end of February. The band has played for the 2009 Carson City Chamber of Commerce holiday party at the Railroad Museum, former Governor Guinn's inauguration, the Greenhouse Garden Center music series, and "Winter Wine and All That Jazz." Directed by Jarod Sorum, the band is a zero-hour class at Carson High School designed to teach students about jazz - the music that has affected America in so many ways.

The Mile High Jazz Band, a professional big-band ensemble, plays regularly in northern Nevada, including monthly performances and quarterly Jazz and Poetry events at Comma Coffee. They sponsor an annual Jazz Festival in Carson City in August. Mile High Jazz Band appearances are funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

(Photo of "intergenerational combo" performing on the 2010 Jazz Extravaganza.)

Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012
Valentines Day

Mile High Jazz band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door, and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5 additional.

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Mile High Jazz band performs "Jazz & Poetry" at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state legislature building in Carson City. The band will be joined by several poets and readers reading poems. General admission is $5 at the door, and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5 additional.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Mile High Jazz band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door, and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5 additional.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Mile High Jazz band performs at Comma Coffee from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. Comma Coffee, 312 S. Carson Street, is across the street from the state legislature building in Carson City. General admission is $5 at the door, and free for age 18 and under. Dance instruction, 6:00-7:15 p.m., is $5 additional.