1st place, Boy Meets Horn Finals, Newark Academy at Essentially Ellington 2024, Jacob Tolentino 

damn bruh that kids chops are difffff

Outstanding Kid! He has a great future as a jazz trumpet player! 🎺👍

I thoroughly enjoyed this! Bravo.

Thank goodness for Wynton Marsalis!!!

By far, my favorite essentially ellington performance. Incredible, just incredible.

Fantastic band, great job Jacob.

YESSUHHH🔥🔥🔥🔥 the attitude in this tune is just incredible

Out of musical fog comes dew of delight!!

*Newark Academy Jazz Band "Chameleon"* *Director: Julius Tolentino* *Solos:* *Boy Meets Horn (**0:11**)* Trumpet: Jacob Tolentino (0:20, 1:12, 2:11, 2:42, 3:11)** Trumpet: Kenny Rampton (0:52, 1:51, 2:42, 3:11) *GUEST ARTIST from Jazz at Lincoln Center* * = Honorable Mention Award ** = Outstanding Award ****1st Place in the 29th Essentially Ellington Competition**** *Awards List* *Sectional Awards:* *Outstanding Rhythm Section:* Nathan Choi (Piano), Suved Wali (Guitar), Ted Crall (Bass), Kabir Srivastav (Drums), Ben Collins-Siegel (Piano, Offstage), Jason Mo (Guitar, Offstage), Ethan Freed (Bass, Offstage), Ben Schwartz (Drums, Offstage) *Outstanding Trombone Section:* Vanessa Fang (Lead), Sebastian Dias-Sotiriou, Nick Hacking, Emma Crall, Andrew Crawford (Bass) *Outstanding Soloist Award:* Ben Collins-Siegel (Piano) Ben Schwartz (Drums) Ani Chakravarthy (Tenor Sax) Vanessa Fang (Trombone) Jacob Tolentino (Trumpet)

This zapped me back to the 40's , I love it .

Dang! Got some Cootie Williams going! 🎶🎵👍🏻

This is a true classic trumpet feature played with beauty and joy! Congratulations Jacob!

No charts.

good job guys, Play always to the delight of the listeners, all the best

Sounds great all around! What a band too!!

Very nice

just so good love it thank you

that's the ticket!

great to see the new generation kickin it!

Amazing! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

A little Dizzy there. Superb. The old man is great. Wonderful. Ex Disney player. More trombone. Use your finger tips kid.

👍😎

Outstanding!

what trumpet is he using?

Outstanding.

There's no black people at the Newark academy?

Well that was darn impressive young man. You may be goin to music school, but I say you have a promising career in the United States military. The mission is simple, every day bright n' early at 0500 hours you will sound your fine sounding trumpet to wake up the cadets. Your such a talented young man that when we march onto the battlefield I'm more sure than Truman with the bomb that they'll even let you play the war horns. You, young trumpeter, can sound the horns that sets fear into the hearts of our adversaries, letting them know that we don't back down in the land of the free and the home of the brave. I believe that with your trumpet you can protect this land of stars and stripes. Good on you young man.

As everyone seems so bent out of shape let me correct myself….. This the most astounding thing I’ve ever seen. These kids are so unbelievably good they play better than Ellington could have done himself. Why aren’t they recording cds and getting record deals I have no idea. I’m just so overwhelmed with seeing such young people being able to surpass the capabilities of the Ellington band itself…….jazz is sooooo not dead…. Ellington will forever never be the same.