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**We are currently accepting applications and auditions for the Spring 2025 or Fall 2025 semesters

If you are considering Ұ������ as an option for your music degree, we look forward to having you audition and showcase what you can do. The audition is also a great opportunity for us to think about your potential as you head into college.

Auditions can be in-person on one of our designated audition dates (see below), in-person and scheduled directly with the Jazz Coordinator, or submitted as a video with a live rhythm section, pre-recorded tracks, or unaccompanied.

Audition Requirements

• All applying students should prepare as much of the content below as they are able
• Improvisation on all selections is encouraged, but not required
• Please think about your audition as showcase as wide of a variety of skills as you possess

Please also consider including including something different you have worked on that is a representation of where you are currently at, musically speaking.

Perform three selections of contrasting styles/tempos:

1. Blues – Billie’s Bounce, Tenor Madness, or a blues head of your choice
2. Ballad – Body & Soul, What’s New, In A Sentimental Mood, or another ballad of your choosing
3. Jazz Standard or Classic Jazz Tune – There Will Never Be Another You, There Is No Greater Love, Oleo, Autumn Leaves, or a similar style selection of your choice

Optional – perform a transcription (full solo or a portion of one) to demonstrate your concept inside the Jazz style

**PIANO, GUITAR & VIBRAPHONE – please add an additional two choruses of comping on your blues and an additional one chorus of comping on your jazz standard

**BASS – please add an additional two choruses of bass line walking on your blues and an additional one chorus of bass line walking on your jazz standard

**DRUMS – please add an additional 32 measures of trading (play 4 bars of time, then solo for 4 bars, repeating through the 32 measures) – this can be part of one of your pieces or performed separately on its own

**VOICE – feel free to scat sing the blues with syllables or substitute an additional standard with lyrics for the blues, if that is preferred

In-person Audition Dates

Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 10am-2pm
Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 10am-3pm

**Rhythm sections or accompaniment will be provided for students who visit Ұ������ for in-person auditions

To set up an audition time on one of the above audition dates, or on a different date that works for you, please contact Jazz Coordinator Nathan Eklund – neklund@njcu.edu

All video submissions should be uploaded to YouTube (as an “unlisted” video) and the link sent directly to Jazz Coordinator Nathan Eklund – neklund@njcu.edu