All-State posting
New Jersey All-State band audition requirements
The All-State Jazz Band page states that scale, solo, and improvisation requirements are identical to the Region Jazz Band requirements.
NJMEA | Region HS band (CJMEA, SJBODA)
Start with one passage
Check NJMEA's Region HS band (CJMEA, SJBODA) requirements for your instrument. Audition date: December 12, 2026.
Begin your etude with a short passage. Confirm the official packet with your director.
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Last checked October 6, 2026 | Official source: https://www.njmea.org/njmea-events
What to work on this week
Use this plan for your next round, a solo, or next season. Not taking another audition? Choose music with your director and use the same steps.
- 5 minutes - Read before playing. Find the required passage in the official packet. Mark its start and end. Count through a rhythm that needs attention.
- 10 minutes - Work on one small chunk. Choose a few notes or a short phrase. Play slowly enough to follow the notes and rhythm.
- 10 minutes - Connect two chunks. Practice the next small section. Then join the sections, paying attention to the connection.
- 5 minutes - Record and listen. Record the joined passage. Follow the score while listening. Write down one thing to revisit.
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Confirm every date and requirement with your director. Organizations update packets.
NJAJE
New Jersey Association for Jazz Education (NJAJE)
2026-27 materials are posted.
The full requirements were not readable from a public official source.
- Ensembles
- All State Jazz Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- All-State Jazz Band audition Monday, May 3, 2027 at 5:00 PM. Applications due Monday, April 19, 2027 at 11:59 PM, with a late deadline of Monday, April 26, 2027 (additional $10 fee). The qualifying Region Jazz Band auditions are held live and in person on Monday, March 15, 2027, with a director meeting at 4:00 PM and student auditions beginning at 4:30 PM.
- Instruments
- jazz winds and rhythm section, grades 9-11
What the organization posted
The All-State Jazz Band page states that scale, solo, and improvisation requirements are identical to the Region Jazz Band requirements. NJAJE posts per-instrument scale sheets at two levels, Junior (grades 7-9) and Senior (grades 9-12), and supplies solo etudes it commissioned rather than drawing from a commercial method book. Improvisation is prepared over a blues in concert B-flat, for which NJAJE provides a practice accompaniment file. Auditions are live and in person, not recorded submissions. Applicants come from the Senior High Region Bands plus other qualified applicants in grades 9 through 11.
Notes
NJAJE is the jazz affiliate linked from NJMEA's own All-State Jazz page (njmea.org/all-state/jazz). Marked partial because the exact scale keys, scale count, and etude titles live in per-instrument PDFs on the Region Jazz Band Auditions page (njaje.org/regionjazzbandauditions.html); several of those etude links appeared empty as of August 23, 2026, so students should confirm them on the NJAJE page. Region Jazz Choir is a separate, non-band posting.
Retrieved from the organization's page on August 23, 2026.
All State Jazz Band Auditions - New Jersey Association for Jazz EducationNJMEA
New Jersey Music Educators Association (NJMEA)
2026-27 materials are posted.
- Ensembles
- All-State Wind Ensemble, All-State Symphonic Band
- Season
- 2026-27
- Audition window
- We could not confirm the January 2027 audition dates and site yet. Reading rehearsal February 8, 2027 with February 9, 2027 as snow date at Bridgewater-Raritan High School. Weekend rehearsals in Atlantic City February 18-20, 2027. Concerts February 20, 2027 at the Atlantic City Convention Center and February 21, 2027 at 3:00 PM at NJPAC.
- Instruments
- all band instruments (woodwinds, brass, percussion), plus piano and harp as standard auditions
What the organization posted
Woodwind and brass candidates prepare all fifteen major scales, seven sharps through seven flats plus C major. Diatonic scales are played in even octaves within the instrument's published range, memorized, articulated to a printed pattern, at a minimum of quarter note = 120. The chromatic scale is played slurred in even sixteenth notes across even octaves within the published range. A required solo is drawn from the 2026-2027 All-State Band Solo List (revised July 2026); the edition listed under the publisher is mandatory, no substitute solos are permitted, and no cadenzas are asked. Percussionists follow separately posted requirements covering snare rudiments, traps, timpani, and keyboard percussion. Piano and harp have their own posted requirements, with piano scales at quarter note = 120. Eligibility requires membership in an affiliated Region Honors Band or Orchestra during the 2025-2026 school year, checked before auditions.
Notes
NJMEA runs a Region structure (Regions I, II, III) that gates All-State eligibility; the same posted scale/solo document governs both Region and All-State auditions. Requirements are split across seven PDFs on the NJMEA domain: solo list (/s/26-27-All-State-Band-Solosrev2.pdf), scale requirements, instrument ranges, four percussion documents, and piano/harp. All-State Jazz is a separate posting run by NJAJE and is returned as its own row.
Retrieved from the organization's page on October 2, 2026.
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- Scales
- Set up each scale in Virtunity and practice it with the metronome at your audition tempo, with the tuner and drone in the same window. Scale Checker confirms scale notes on your iPhone. Notes only. Not tone, rhythm or a complete performance.
- Prepared solo
- Keep the PDF in your Music Library and set the piece up in practice with the metronome, tuner and your notes beside it. Start under tempo: good reps in a row move the tempo up a step, and Keep lets you stay at the old tempo.
- Tone and intonation
- Every judge listens for these. The tuner shows your note and how sharp or flat it is, and the drone gives you a steady reference pitch for long tones.
- Tempo
- Tap tempo finds a marked tempo, and subdivision clicks keep your eighths, triplets and sixteenths even.
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