Terms and Conditions

Eligibility
To be eligible to audition for the All Shore Jazz Band, you must be a student at an affiliated school. In addition, you must be sponsored by your band director. Only a member-band director can sponsor a student for this ensemble. You must be a member of your school's jazz band and remain as such throughout your All Shore experience.

Vocational students who attend a school without a music program may only be sponsored by their home public school’s music program after fulfilling the program’s membership requirements.

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Audition Requirements

All students will complete a solo and a sightreading portion.

1. Solo - ASBDA selects audition/solo etudes from a standardized set of method/solo books listed below. The student/auditioner will perform solo using an original, printed copy on the prescribed day of the audition. Photocopies will only be accepted/permitted if accompanied with the original from which it was made. Future solos will be selected from these books. Therefore, the student will be able to use them throughout four years in high school. Students: please purchase the method book below appropriate for your instrument and learn the corresponding solo. Audition excerpt will be posted along with the "Day-tude" (see #2).

2. 24-hour Etude - All students will perform an etude that is posted to the Jazz Area of the All Shore Website 24 hours before the audition window opens. Students must perform this as part of their audition, in lieu of sight-reading. The password for this will be sent to sponsoring directors along with audition numbers once applications are processed.

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Before you complete audition registration, you must make sure that you are able to attend all rehearsals and performances, have access to Flip Grid (audio and video capabilities) for auditions, and the ability to record audio for the rehearsal process. Please review the calendar to see rehearsal and concert dates. Medically documented illness and performance in YOUR school's Jazz Band are the only acceptable absences. Any other absence will result in expulsion from the group.

Virtual Attendance Policy
Students shall attend all rehearsals unless an excuse is necessitated by illness, accident, death in the family, or performing on an instrument in a performance by their school's Jazz band or an NJMEA sponsored instrumental activity.
Any unexcused absence or more than one excused absence shall result in the student being dropped from the band.
A student who fails to attend EITHER the first rehearsal or submit recordings as scheduled throughout the experience will be dismissed from the band.
If ill - Medical Documentation of the absence is required (doctor/school nurse note) prior to the next rehearsal or the student will be dropped from the band. Students should email the documentation to asbdanj@gmail.com.
If an absence is required due to a performance on their instrument by their school's Jazz band or an NJMEA sponsored instrumental activity, documentation of the performance (either sponsoring Band Director letter or Director communication with All Shore Exec Board prior to first rehearsal) is required or the student will be dropped from the band.
Perfect attendance is required to be considered for solos.
Tardy Policy- tardy is arriving or logging in 20 minutes or later beyond the scheduled start time.
Upon 2 tardies, a student MAY be dismissed. 2 tardies will count as an absence, upon the 3rd tardy the student WILL be dismissed.
A student dropped from the band, other than for an approved excused reason, shall be ineligible to audition for any All Shore honors band for a period of twelve months.