Garfield takes first in Ellington; E-W’s Bergevin says all bands better than ever

Seattle’s Garfield High School won the Essentially Ellington high school jazz band competition for an unprecedented fourth time Monday night at New York’s Lincoln Center, in what Edmonds-Woodway High School band director Jake Bergevin described as the highest level of competition ever, according to contest judges. Edmonds-Woodway was one of 15 high school bands chosen…