Photo by Dan Vander Beek

It’s a tradition that is as dominant as they come in Iowa High School music — 41 times in 47 years in the top four, 32 times in the finals of Class 3A, and twenty times the champs.

Pella Jazz I earned the school’s third consecutive state championship Tuesday in Ames at the Iowa Jazz Championships, and the band celebrated in front of their classmates Thursday at a winter-spring assembly that also celebrated the successes of basketball, wrestling, and bowling and previewed what is already primed to be another special year in track, golf, tennis, and soccer.

Hear more from the state jazz champions on the Let’s Talk Pella podcast.