Caught In The Act Analysis

This review is about the Studio Big Band and their performance in the Casa Loma Room at the University of Redlands on Thursday, February 23rd at eight in the evening, under the direction of Prof. David Scott. The concert was made up of the following tunes: “High Maintenance” by Gordon Goodwin, “Four” by Miles Davis (arr. Dave Bardhun), “Nica’s Dream” by Horace Silver (arr. Frank Mantooth), “Witchcraft” by Cy Coleman (arr. Sammy Nestico), “Footprints” by Wayne Shorter (arr. Mat Harris), “Category 4” by Jeff Jarvis, and “Giant Steps” by John Coltrane (arr. Mark Taylor). The music on this program was very relevant for the eras we are covering or will be covering soon in the class, and to this end, the piece I will be focusing on

Count Basie, was born August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey. He was a gifted pianist, bandleader, and composer. His mother was a pianist and his father was a mellophonist. His mother, not realizing that he would become an amazing pianist and bandleader, started off his journey by giving him his first piano lessons. Later on, William and his family moved to New York, where he was further influenced by James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. In New York, Waller taught Basie organ playing techniques. Further on in his life Count Basie had many top chart hits such as “One O’Clock Jump” and “Blue Skies” In the 1858 Grammy’s became the first African-American male represent of a Grammy Award. Throughout his career, he won many more. Not only was he a great composer and musician, but he was a good person who influenced many people's lives. This essay will outline the life of Count Basie and all of his

Louis Armstrong, one of the most influential figures in jazz music, enjoyed a career that spans across 50 years, and through different eras of jazz. Nicknamed” Satchmo”, “Pops”, and” Ambassador Satch”, Armstrong could do it all, he sang, occasionally acted, composed music, but was most famous for his cornet and trumpet playing. Although Armstrong is well known for his amazing trumpet play, he also influenced the direction that jazz music during his time was headed. Over the course of this paper I will concisely go over his early life, and focus more on his music career.

Long-revered altoist phenomenon David Binney is certainly proud of having created a very personal style within the modern jazz, mirrored along the nearly 30 years of his notable career. He has played with other ingenious artists such as Chris Potter, Bill Frisell, Donny McCaslin, Craig Taborn, Scott Colley, Edward Simon, Brian Blade and Kenny Wollesen. Those collaborations spawned truly exhilarating albums – Free to Dream (Mythology, 1998), Welcome to Life (Mythology, 2004), Out of Airplanes (Mythology, 2006), Cities and Desire (Criss Cross, 2006), Graylen Epicenter (Mythology, 2011) – that should be on the shelves of any jazz lover. In addition to his own projects, Binney has always a very busy schedule as a sideperson. The immensity of his

In the 20th century, Jazz was one of the most expressive forms of music around, as it was just starting out and was born in a time where victims of oppression were beginning to stand up and rebel. In comparison to classical music, Jazz is a very new genre of music. It’s evolution is vividly evident in it’s contrast of instrumentation, dynamics, and the introduction of modal jazz which I will discuss later on in this essay. One of the first jazz virtuoso’s that appeared and had a significant influence on jazz, was Sidney Bechet, on clarinet and saxophone.

Have you ever wanted to go deeper into learning about musical entertainers from the past? All of the types of music we have today came from people deeper in history. Ray Charles is one of many musical entertainers that created a different type of music. One reason he was so popular was because he combined many types of music to create an enjoyable sound for everyone.I chose Ray Charles because I wanted to learn more about why he was so popular in the 1940s-1970s and how he influenced music. In this essay I am going to talk about Ray Charles’s childhood, family, and entertaining career.

Genre: Nonfiction. The gripping story of how a young, poor, African-American boy, physically abused by his father and bullied at school, finds a creative outlet for his anger through music when his teacher gives him a trumpet. The rise to fame, and the creation of bebop music by jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie is told with a narrative containing rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration. The narration imitates the sounds of jazz and scat that Dizzy created. A note from the author included at the end of the narrative brings further insight into Dizzy’s life as a teacher of bebob and role model for musicians.

With Tag Book, American drummer-composer Charles Rumback, a mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene, has his second release of the year on ears&eyes label with only nearly six months separating it from the previous release, Three. If the latter was a collection of three original compositions plus a rendition of Andrew Hill’s “Erato”, all of them complying with a 3/4 time signature, the newest album comprises five homogeneous pieces executed by the same trio with Jim Baker on piano and John Tate on acoustic bass.

Victor Provost is widely considered one of the premier steel pan jazz artists of the 21st century. Through appearances at concert halls, clubs, and stages throughout the world, he has been meticulously developing a reputation as a “dazzling” soloist, crafting an impressive improvisational voice and style. Provost possesses a thorough knowledge of Bebop language, with a strong foundation in Caribbean sensibilities, and is armed with a virtuosic technical ability that allows him to weave all the elements of music seamlessly in his playing. Provost has two albums to his credit, including his new project entitled “Bright Eyes”, which debuted at number five on the iTunes Top 40 Jazz Charts and have received rave reviews from Downbeat Magazine,

Head pianist of Brophy's jazz band, I've studied and played piano for 11 years. And jazz band became a double-edged sword: it not only exposed a new musical realm to me, but it also paved a new avenue for my expression––listening, reacting, jamming.

Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926 in the great state of Illinois. The 20th century proved to be a very trying period for African Americans all around the country with the equal rights being a myth. African Americans were seen as a lowly entity that was not to be interacted with. With the times being so against the “black man”, Mr. Davis fought through the adversity to piece together some of best instrumentals to date. Now I don’t want to turn this into a paper about his fight through segregation. I want to spend some time evaluating and analyzing his music and comparing it to today’s music and music tastes of my own.

This week, on February 27, I visited the Latin Jazz Ensemble concert at Sacramento State University. It was my first time at a jazz concert in Sacramento. The jazz ensembles performed seven pieces during the concert with twelve different instruments. “Mama Cool Beans”, “Keeper for the Flame”, “Next Exit”, and “Plena Con Sabor” were four different and unique pieces which I liked and I think these compositions inspired the audience.

Even though Louis Armstrong died nearly 45 years ago, he is still a common household name in America. This paper will discuss a few reasons on why that is. The first being how he changed music as a musician and a singer. It will also cover how he appealed to both black and white audiences during a time of segregation, which led into his involvement with the civil rights movement. (Theel)

Music is essential to the African American culture experience in the United States. Even though African Americans were faced with racism, they were always inspired by music to live in peace. Even though jazz was a game changer for culture acceptance with whites, there were still negative aspects that created new barriers of blocking the true form of music. And so, white folk did what they do best and that’s to point fingers and make their own solutions. White bands and soloist players started forming and taking up slots in which were originally already for African Americans. Black jazz musicians were less credited for their invention and innovation of jazz music. Jazz music created a sense of identity, originality, and social blend among black musicians, but they weren’t credited for there work. White people like to see other white people win…and they can’t win when it comes to jazz…because black people created this” . There is the believe that black jazz musicians experienced a lot of resentment because they felt that they did not always receive acknowledgement for their accomplishments, while whites were granted titles such as “King of Swing” and “King of Jazz” Again, this social effect of jazz was a result of greed by whites of every class, and it created anger among black jazz musicians.

Being a Jazz enthusiast, it has always been a dream to be able to bring together a group of established and gifted musicians, working and playing on an original. I am honoured to be able to fulfil this dream and bring to you this extraordinary