Boston Latin School jazz pianist to perform at GRAMMY Awards Week events

BOSTON - Jake Sherman, a senior at Boston Latin School, has been selected to perform in the prestigious 2008 Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY Jazz Band. An accomplished jazz pianist, Jake is one of only 18 high school students from around the country selected for the group.

The GRAMMY Jazz Ensemble program selects top high school instrumentalists and singers to receive college scholarships and an all-expenses-paid trip to perform in the Jazz Choir, Band, or Combo at GRAMMY Awards Week events in Los Angeles, February 2-11, 2008. Each participant's high school also receives educational music products. For more information, visit www.grammyintheschools.com.

"We are so proud of Jake for being selected for this incredible opportunity," said Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol R. Johnson. "We applaud Jake, as well as his teachers and family, for their commitment to music and arts education."

Jake is also one of only five students in the country selected as a Stan Getz / Clifford Brown Fellowship All-Star by the National Foundation for the Advancements of the Arts and the International Association of Jazz Education (IAJE). The program receives more than 7,500 applications each year in all arts forms, and selects only 140 for an all expenses-paid trip to Miami for youngARTS Week, where the student performers study and collaborate with professional musicians. The five selected All Stars also will perform at the annual IAJE convention in Toronto in January 2008.

A resident of Jamaica Plain, Jake has been playing music since he was 4 years old and began studying jazz piano at the age of 12. He has studied with acclaimed jazz musicians and performed at such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, the Regattabar, the Berklee Performance Center, and the Zeitgeist Gallery.