Everyone is in a good mood.
Finals are over for the semester and the students are a few days from going home for vacation.
Now it s time to make some music. The dress code for the day is sweatshirts and jeans. Scattered around the floor are an assortment of pop bottles, instrument cases and sheet music. For the next ten hours, a windowless studio at Triad Studio in Des Moines will be home for the the 18 student musicians as they settle in. Jazz Band Director Ross Leeper guides the group through a rehearsal of the jazz-rock number prior to running the tape.