Hi, I'm Maria Silva.

Coming up, a look at how 1 CCSD band director took a canceled student trip and turned it into a positive musical experience.

Well, we're at Walter Johnson International Academy, and we're going to go to a music studio today, and we're going to record 30 kids from our jazz band, which is going to be amazing.

You're going to be blown away when you hear them.

They're just so great.

I feel really good about performing with this band because, yeah, this the only time we're going to get to play in a studio.

Well, yeah, it means a lot.

I'm very excited too, because it's kind of like documents my progress and the band's progress together.

My jazz band, the first year that I was here with my jazz band, I had six kids in the jazz band.

Well, I've been a music writer my whole life, so what I did, I started writing music for the jazz band, and then next year I had 12 kids.

And so I started writing for those 12 kids.

And the next year I had a full jazz band, but they were pretty weak.

So I just kept writing to the level of their musicianship.

So here we are we are in the studio.

It's been a two year endeavor, right?

So we're getting ready to to pop and let everybody hear our great magic from John's at International Academy.

You guys are fantastic.

Everybody in the band is valuable and important.

And then I have written so many songs that I got a publishing deal with a publishing company in Washington.

So it's been really it's been great for me.

It is very methodical and very thought out.

Essay well planned out.

I wrote this music like like speaks to like because music is like, really, like, touchy and it feels like it's the greatest movie ever, ever, ever played, ever.

I love it.

What are they learning from this exercise today?

They're really learning what what I have done my whole life as a musician.

So you practice.

You learn your skills.

You play with others, and then you take your skill and go into the recording studio and record it.

You get all these years and years of practice and then you go, Here's my gift to you.

Yes, I'm going to Las Vegas Academy of the Arts for Jazz International Studies, and I will be able to play.

And that's basically like a stepping step into my new career, into everything.

I'm going to keep playing music for the rest of my life.

As these talented student musicians will receive a USB drive with the studio session audio so they can always look back at this wonderful experience.