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Mile High Jazz Band

External Links
Carson City Symphony
David Bugli website
Carson City Arts &
Culture Coalition
Sacramento Traditional
Jazz Society (STJS)
The Mile High Jazz Band Association formed in 2001 as a nonprofit corporation
to support the MHJB and its subgroup, the Millennium Bugs (jazz combo), promote
live jazz performance in northern Nevada, educate the public about jazz, and
enrich the cultural life of the community.
Member benefits include mailings, discounts on admissions, and
invitations to special events, plus the satisfaction of helping big-band jazz to thrive!
To book the Mile High Jazz Band (big band)
or Millennium Bugs (jazz combo),
call 775-883-4154.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most Comma Coffee gigs
are on the second Tuesday of each month from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
The 2011 "Jazz! Carson City" music festival
ran from July 31 through August.
Tentative plans have the 2012 festival running
from Aug. 5 to Aug. 19, 2012.
Go to http://JazzCarsonCity.com
for details.
General Information
The Mile High Jazz Band, an 18-member "big band" composed of 17 instrumentalists
and a vocalist, began performing in 1997. The group features music in the Count
Basie-Duke Ellington-Woody Herman tradition, as well as more contemporary styles,
selected from a repertoire of over 100 tunes. They play ballads, high-powered
jazz tunes, and dance music arranged by Nestico, Niehaus, Taylor, and other great arrangers.
Mile High Jazz Band performs for community events, fundraisers, dances, receptions,
private parties, and in concert. They have played benefits for New York Firefighters,
Red Cross Disaster Relief, Carson-Tahoe Hospital Foundation, Douglas County Library
Foundation, and the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. They have been featured
in concerts at the Brewery Arts Center and on the Carson City Symphony's "Holiday Treat"
and "Pops Party" concerts. They play monthly at Comma Coffee and collaborate with local
poets in quarterly "Jazz and Poetry" events, alternating poetry readings with related
musical selections. Mile High Jazz Band has performed in Carson City, Reno, Minden,
Fallon, Yerington, Stateline, Incline Village, Virginia City, and Crystal Bay.
In 2002, Mile High Jazz Band won "Best Band" award in Carson City's "Taste of
Downtown." In 2003, American Composers Forum selected Mile High Jazz Band and
Bella Voce women's choir for a national Continental Harmony project. In 2007,
leader David Bugli received the Nevada Governor's Arts Award for Distinguished
Service to the Arts, and the band played for the awards ceremony. Mile High Jazz
Band plays annual benefits with the Carson High Jazz Band to help the high school
band attend the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Also, the Mile High Jazz Band Association
founded and produces or co-produces an annual, multi-day Jazz Festival in Carson City in August.
The band performs around the Carson City area. You can
catch us on most second Tuesdays of each month at Comma Coffee,
across from
the State Legislature Building.
Millennium Bugs
The Millennium Bugs, a jazz combo associated with the Mile High Jazz Band,
play a great variety of jazz styles. They performed for the Carson City
Preservation Coalition/Historical Society, Olympic Torch Relay Ceremony in
Carson City, Carson City Music Club, Westview block party, Camel Race Day in
Virginia City, Carson Nugget showroom, Carson-Tahoe Hospital Foundation, Carson
High Prom, BAC Beer Tasting, weddings, receptions, and parties.
Mile High Jazz Band Association board meetings are held quarterly.
Call 775-883-4154 for details.
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