{"id":32497,"date":"2026-03-19T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/?p=32497"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:25:33","slug":"mastering-the-craft-a-special-jazz-workshop-with-darrell-hendricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/mastering-the-craft-a-special-jazz-workshop-with-darrell-hendricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastering the Craft: A Special Jazz Workshop with Darrell Hendricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
On March 18, the North Hunterdon\u00a0Jazz Ensemble had the privilege\u00a0of working with Mr. Darrell Hendricks, Director of Bands of Mount Olive High School.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mr. Hendricks is currently the\u00a0 Director of Bands at Mount Olive High School where his responsibilities include Director of the Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, and Jazz Ensemble. Under his direction, the Mount Olive High School Jazz Ensemble has grown from one concert per year to regular performances at the NJAJE State Preliminary and Final Rounds, and has also performed at the world famous Apollo Theater in 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n

Mr. Hendricks has been the Jazz Instructor at the Mt. Tabor Summer Music Camp and an Adjunct Professor of Brass Pedagogy at Montclair State University and Rowan University.\u00a0 He has also conducted the NJAJE Region I & III High School Jazz Ensembles and served as the President of Region I for NJAJE from 2018-2021.\u00a0 Mr. Hendricks is currently the NJ State Past – President for NJAJE.\u00a0 In 2025, Mr. Hendricks conducted the North Jersey Area Band Symphonic Band.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to teaching at Mount Olive High School, Mr. Hendricks has been a low brass specialist for the past thirty years. In that time, Mr. Hendricks has performed with the critically acclaimed\u00a0Glenn Miller Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Peter Cetera, Aretha Franklin, Alicia Keyes, John Mayer, Josh Groban, The Four Tops,\u00a0Maria Schneider Orchestra, Frank Kuamba Lacy, Video Games Live, Secret Society Orchestra, Darlene Love, Ritchie Van Zandt, and Alan Chez with the Brothers of Funk.\u00a0He also has performed with several Broadway productions such as\u00a0Curtains, The Lion King, Cry Baby, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Miserables,\u00a0\u00a0and toured with Broadway Shows such as\u00a0The Music Man, Miss Saigon, and Swing Forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Jazz Ensemble learned a lot from Mr. Hendricks in Jazz pedagogy and history. The next big performances for the North Hunterdon Jazz Ensemble is the 22nd Annual Prism Concert on March 26, the 2nd Annual High Point Jazz Festival in Sussex New Jersey on April 1, the North Hunterdon Spring Concert on May 14, and Jazz in the Park at Finn Road Park on June 6.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On March 18, the North Hunterdon\u00a0Jazz Ensemble had the privilege\u00a0of working with Mr. Darrell Hendricks, Director of Bands of Mount Olive High School.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mr. Hendricks is currently the\u00a0 Director of Bands at Mount Olive High School where his responsibilities include Director of the Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, and Jazz Ensemble. Under his direction, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":31647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-north-news","8":"category-top-news","9":"entry","10":"override"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/files\/2025\/02\/NH-Music-Jazz.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 00:18:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32500,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32497\/revisions\/32500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/nhhs\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}