On Tuesday, May 10, I had the opportunity along with my husband to listen to a jazz band at the Grand Theater bar in downtown Grand Have. I must admit I have never been a jazz fan, but this group did grab my attention. We had a nice dinner while relaxing and listening to the band. The band started out as a trio – drums, bass, and guitar. Halfway through their second set another guitarist joined in. With the additional guitar I did not notice any difference in sound quality, rhythm, or tone. I am not sure if this fourth person is a regular member or a last minute add on, either way I was very satisfied with the sound of the first three musicians and was with the fourth addition. I did not see a name for this band and for that matter, I
This past week I visited the Charles H. Templeton Music Museum during Mississippi State University’s Ragtime and Jazz Festival. The first time I visited this museum was my junior year of high school on a field trip while studying The Great Gatsby, but every time I visit the museum it is a brand new experience. Templeton's extensive collection of instruments, recordings, and sheet music allows for visitors to have an inside look on the progression of music throughout the late 1800’s and early 1900’s by emerging them into each particular musical time period. Charles H. Templeton himself stated, "This is one of the few collections, if not the only one, which carries through all of those changes. You started out with blues and then ragtime evolved from that, and then the Dixieland sound emerged and the big band, and from that came the forerunner of modern jazz.”
The Harlem Renaissance brought the rebirth of music and social culture. One of the greatest musicians achieved influential accomplishments during this era; Kennedy Edward Ellington. The “King of Jazz” better known as Duke Ellington dominated the jazz era during the 1920s. During the Harlem Renaissance he exhibited his dedication to music and displayed impactful leadership characteristics. Ellington also established a legacy that swayed the future generations.
Trumpets were energetic and filled with life while the bass was reserved and quiet, adding subtle hints, and the drums kept the beat but still managed to stand out. The audience enjoyed the performance so greatly that the last fifteen minutes were added. Festival Junction, Blues to Be There and Newport Up really stood out. In Festival Junction, the jazz instrumentation was so well put that a first time listener could have easily gotten lost in the music. Newport Up was energizing the audience even more.
Camille Burton Dr. Greene English 1010-3 22 November 2014 Jazz Artists in New Orleans The early development of jazz is closely tied with the community and is a very important part of the history of New Orleans. New Orleans is seen to be the home of new jazz during the 1900's.
The stage was set up with five saxophones, two altos, two tenors, and one baritone, stage front left with four trombones directly behind them, and three trumpets at the back, the electric guitar was in center stage with drums and bass located behind, the piano was stage right with Professor Scott Wilson, the guest artist, in front of the piano. The songs the Big Band played were fantastically preformed balanced with no parts sounding to loud or soft, the trumpets were the major surprise there, but the highlight was Professor Scott Wilson E.V.I., or Electronic Valve Instrument. The E.V.I. sounded like a trumpet and an electric piano in one instrument, the notes were controlled by three buttons imitating valves on brass instrument and a knob at the bottom to control the pitch of the note, a unique instrument for Jazz. Over all, the Evening of Jazz was good example of Blues and Jazz music genre, from the clothes to the style of songs chosen, without the clothes the Blues would not have felt Blues.
I have always been a particularly musical person. When I was younger, I wanted to become a singer when I grew up, but upon joining the choir in elementary I realized I did not have the talent for singing that I thought I had. Continually singing off key and never sounding as good as my peers did, I decided to confine myself to singing at home where only my family could hear me. Despite this revelation that I was, in fact, a terrible singer, I still wanted to participate in some type of musical performance and decided to join the band in middle school. After trying out various different instruments, I settled on the flute and quickly fell in love.
On the day of Sunday April 10th, I went to a jazz ensemble concert at the Trinity University Ruth Taylor Recital Hall. This hall was much larger than the previous performance I attended. My first impression of the group was that they were relaxed and comfortable. For instance, when the drummer winked the drummer gave when the director explained his switch from the trumpet to drums.
Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big
This cd is a work of passion. Playing the saxophone for almost 30 years Jakob Elvstrøm figured it was time to pay his respect to some of the music he loves the most; the funky jazz from the sixties and early seventies. In the early 90ies Jakob Elvstrøm bought the Lou Donaldson album "Pretty Things" in a local secondhand store and immediately dug into the acid jazz craze, that was started by the British Dj Giles Peterson, who successfully rebranded the organ jazz of the 60ies as "acid jazz". Jakob Elvstrøm's own organ Quartet was playing all over Denmark and Sweden and was a household name at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse in the mid-90ies.
On Thursday September 19th I attended a traditional live Jazz music concert at Cafe Stritch. Cafe Stritch was a medium sized cafe that features different styles of musical performers including garage, psych, soul and of course jazz. The interior of the cafe gave of an unmistakably urban-hipster vibe comparable to one of a San Franciscan music club in the Urban area of the city. There was upstairs seating as well a downstairs and bar-seating. The walls were constructed out of urban-brick and decorated with large paintings and photographs of Jazz Performers.
Each week you could see the progression of music and how musicians were changing the landscape of jazz. I was also surprised at how much I loved some of the music. I particularly liked the hard bop style. In a previous post I wrote about Art Blakey’s “Moanin”.
When I was younger I went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Along side of the music being played were silent vignettes. That night as we entered the theater, I vividly remember right before we got our seats, a man handing out playbills said to my parents, "there is a point here where two men kiss each other". My parents said, "okay". We sat down and that was that.
On Valentine 's Day, I decided to take my boyfriend to his very first jazz concert and my second one. We attended the Mark Christian Miller show at 1pm held at The E Spot Lounge in Studio City. When we walked into the lounge we noticed it was an intimate, hip kind of lounge. The atmosphere of the place gave us a good vibe. While we were waiting for the ensemble to come out we decided to order some food and have some brunch.
At approximately, 3:05 Josh, Thomas, Hunter, Tim and myself arrived at 40 Church Street in Northborough Massachusetts excited and eager to hear some Jazz. However unfortunately we were not as fortunate to either hear much of any Jazz or see much of any major festivities. When we arrived my previous conceptions of what we were going to experience were just incorrect. What I believed this event to be was ultimately not what the event was.
1. Disclaimer Although the Montreux jazz festival is a world renowned event it is still located in Switzerland, in the French speaking part. Thus some of the information of this report are just translated version of different sources 2. Introduction “Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but it’s a gift that America has given to the world- Ahmad Alaadeen”