Unusual semi-fact

[wolff]

What USA high school has best jazz band and best basketball player.

Garfield High - Seattle, WA (home of Bill Gates). Tony Wroten Jr. is the hoopster(he should be at Hazen High, but that's another story).

Have you guys heard these guys??

[Big Wheel]

Questionable whether they are the "best" HS jazz band just because they won Essentially Ellington this year. EE rewards bands that rehearse the 6-10 Ellington competition charts to death, which doesn't seem to be the best measure of how good the band actually is. You can win with 2-3 strong soloists and a band that is only okay if you practice those charts enough.

They were good, but probably not the best, in 2000, when I competed against them at the same competition (we placed ahead of them). I would guess that depending on the year (or even the day of the week) one of the performing arts high schools or Hall High School in Connecticut has a band that can smoke them.

[wolff]

  Big Wheel said:

Hall High School in Connecticut has a band that can smoke them.

But does Hall have any basketball players?

You sound like the band leader of the Roosevelt Roughriders(Seattle, WA) who

took 2nd to Garfield.

I need to use you for bait next time I go fishing.EE clips

For those who aren't so literal, have a listen.

[Jazzmoose]

Garfield sucks! (Sorry; I went to Roosevelt...)