Andre Acevedo Georgia on My Mind with Braswell High Legacy One

Dr. Andre Acevedo performs a Sammy Nestico arrangement of "Georgia on my Mind", by Hoagy Carmichael. The big band is Legacy One of Braswell High School in Texas. Braswell Band, under the direction of Mr. Snipes and Mr. Sitzman has FOUR full big bands! I have been coming to the school for two years to work with the students. These students are talented and HUNGRY for jazz music. It is really a fantastic time working with them!
In another video, a student of mine performs this same solo. Except for this show, that students had to be absent. I asked if I could play the solo that afternoon and jumped into action to rehearse it with them once and perform it that night!
Mr. Snipes recently named me as their unofficial adjunct jazz professor. So he announces me that way at the start of the video. :-D
This was at Tenders BBQ in Aubrey. Hopefully Braswell Jazz will be spending a lot of time at Tenders in the future!
I am playing on my Yanagisawa alto sax. WO2 with 66 neck
D'addario VENN New Design reeds. (These reeds worked flawlessly for this outdoor performance!)
The mouthpiece is the Babbitt Meyer Bros Connoisseur mouthpiece.
Recorded on an Iphone SE.
(There was a band parent also video and audio recording with better gear. If they upload this performance, I will link to it later)

[@anantha79]

Awesome! It was a pleasure to listen 🎷

[@stangetz534]

nice!

[@ChipTheMusicMan]

Nice playing, Andre. Looks like a lot of fun! BTW I just got a Morgan Jazz 6M and I'm really happy with it 😊

[@AcevedoDMA]

Sweet, I am glad you found something that works for you!