{"id":12500,"date":"2020-12-10T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12500"},"modified":"2020-12-10T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:57:00","slug":"ramirez-makes-tmea-all-state-jazz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=12500","title":{"rendered":"Ramirez makes TMEA All-State Jazz Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"887\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201120800x600BenjaminRamirez.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201120800x600BenjaminRamirez.jpg 980w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201120800x600BenjaminRamirez-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/201120800x600BenjaminRamirez-768x695.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption><em><strong>Senior bass guitarist becomes first All-State Jazz student in Los Fresnos High School history<\/strong><\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Fresnos High School Jazz Band member Benjamin Ramirez won first place in the state on bass guitar and has been named to the Texas Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Ensemble 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the first chair, Ramirez is the top-ranked bass guitarist in Texas and the first All-State Jazz student in Los Fresnos High School history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The audition process begins in May of each year when five complex pieces of music in a variety of styles are distributed across the state.&nbsp; Students practice through the summer and into the fall in preparation for the TMEA All-Region Jazz Band audition, which is the first round of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A student must place first on bass guitar in order to advance to the next round. Benjamin has won in Region 28 each of the last two years.&nbsp; Next, recordings are made by all 1st chair students across the state in order to be ranked against each other.&nbsp; Benjamin won placement into the TMEA All-State Jazz Ensemble 1 during this final statewide phase of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramirez is in the process of applying and auditioning to be a Jazz Studies major at Berklee College of Music, University of North Texas, University of Texas, Texas State University, and Texas A&amp;M University-Kingsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Fresnos High School Jazz Band member Benjamin Ramirez won first place in the state on bass guitar and has been named to the Texas Music Educators Association All-State Jazz Ensemble 1. As the first chair, Ramirez is the top-ranked bass guitarist in Texas and the first All-State Jazz student in Los Fresnos High School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12501,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12500\/revisions\/12501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}