Youth Bands

Most public performance, the Dave Dickey Big Band invites middle school, high school, college jazz ensembles, and Jazz St Louis Ensembles to perform with the band. Student bands usually perform during intermission, then the last set selected students from those bands would sit in and solo with the Dave Dickey Big Band. We have also had performances where student jazz small groups perform in the lobby before the concert while people are having dinner or coming into the concert hall. This is a tradition the Dave Dickey Big Band will continue. It's fun for the students, the band members in the Dave Dickey Big Band, their music teachers, and also family members of those students. Below are pictures from some of those nights (many more).

Parkway Central Standard Time (14 vocalists and rhythm section), Parkway Central Jazz Band, and Parkway Central Jazz Combo. Grandel Theater and The Dark Room, St Louis. Also Parkway Central students sitting with the Dave Dickey Big Band

Parkway Central Jazz Combo performing at the Dark Room before the concert ii Grandel Theater. Listeners had dinner while listening to the combo.

Parkway Central Band Director Doug Hoover

Parkway Central Standard Time directed by Ben Silvermintz

Parkway Central student sitting in with the Dave Dickey Big Band

Letter from band leader and educator great Jerry Hoover

North County Big Band at Jazz at the Bistro in St Louis. North County students also sitting in with the Dave Dickey Big Band

North County students sitting in with the Dave Dickey Big Band

North County Big Band performing during intermission. The band is directed by Harvey Lockhart.

St Dominic High School 9th grade student Wyatt Forhan being featured with the Dave Dickey Big Band. This is a bass bone feature called "Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week" written for the Patrick Williams Orchestra.

North County High School Jazz Ensemble "Big Band Christmas Celebration" at Farmington Centene Center. North County HS students also sitting in with the Dave Dickey Big Band

North County HS Jazz Ensemble performing during intermission

Students sitting in with the Dave Dickey Big Band

Webster Groves Jazz Band 1 at Kirkwood Brewing Station Company. The band performed during intermission, then several of their students sat in last set with the Dave Dickey Big Band.