Ragtime And Jazz Concert Report

The performance I attended was “Cape Fear Society Scholarship Concert,” which was a musical ensemble comprised of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, a piano, a drum player, end even a bass. Jonathan Hill, one of the instrumentalist who played the drums, was awarded that night with a scholarship. All of the performers can play their instruments in an unusual way which is referred to as swing. I have never been to a jazz concert before so it was interesting to hear the saxophones play swing, it really gave me a feeling that I was watching the ensemble perform in the 1920’s in a restaurant. Also, a special guest Carol Ingbretsen sang along with the musicians on most of the pieces, I also found this very interesting. For the most part the singers

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

I attended the Baylor University Concert Jazz Ensemble directed by Alex Parker on Tuesday, November 10th. This ensemble consisted of saxes, trombones, trumpets, drums, a piano, and bass. The concert showcased many individual talents by including solo’s or duet’s in every song. The program consisted of seven songs with no intermission. The pieces I selected were “Big Dipper” by Thad Jones and “Undecided” by Frank Mantooth.

The Ragtime Era contained many old ideals, new inventions and great advances in the art world. The loss of the great American frontier and the growth of an urban population were key factors to the burst of innovation which then facilitated the appearance of modern art in America. One of the largest proliferation of modern artists came out of the renowned Ashcan School. Ashcan, which was created in the early 1900’s, in opposition to rigid idealism, was an institution whose artists focused on the nitty-gritty aspects of American life. Idealists deemed Ashcan art as “too vulgar” as it often focused on the new freedom of Americans, often through the sexual liberation of women and the newfound mixture of the sexes. Due to the flood of immigrants,

The date of the concert was October 5, 2016 and the title of the concert is “Experimental Improvisation with: Kjell Nordeson & Peter Kuhn”. The concert was performed in Mesa College Music building. Peter Kuhn had three instruments with him a bass clarinet, saxophone, and a Bb Clarinet. He used the bass clarinet and the saxophone during his first piece, and the clarinet on the second piece. Kjell Nordeson was on the drum but had a lot of instruments with him. Sometimes he would play the drums as a drums set but sometimes he would put some sort of objects on top of the drum to create different sound effects. He also had a small glockenspiel and a flexatone. The concert hall was very simple, had a

more in depth Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the early 1940’s, the swing bands

Swing, the predecessor of bop, was big, sweet, and hot. The performers were big bands, fronted by a charismatic bandleader, yet the success of a piece depended mostly on the unity of the ensemble as a whole, rather than on the showcasing of prodigious

With these specialized concept, new ones are developed daily and is shared with one another. Like all music, it brings people together, and that’s is the beauty of it. Music does not have to exact and perfect; it is to expressed feelings when words itself cannot describe it. Swing music was a positive bright light during a dark time and keeping people spirit up. Listening to one of Benny Goodman’s arrangement, “Sing, sing, sing”, it gave an insight of that upbeat tone right in the beginning.

The Jazz Combo is quite small with five members who played trumpet, baritone saxophone, double bass, guitar, and drum. The performance opened with “Doxy” by Sonny Rollins. This is a hard bop song. The second

On the 20th of June I went to the Beachaven Winery for Jazz on the lawn to watch Rick Stone’s Dance Band. Rick Stone’s Dance Band was a 1960’s band that played tunes such as “I will be there” to “Black Magic Woman”. The music of the 60’s was the type of music that took America by storm. Before I can talk about my experience I have to explain the type of music of the era. Popular Music Genres of the 1960’s was the British Invasion, Motown/R&B, Surf Rock/Psychedelic Rock, Roots Rock/Hard Rock, Folk Rock/Protest Music, and Acapella.

In the late nineteenth century, African American musicians introduced this syncopated, up tempo music with a steady beat to small, unpopular venues; this style of piano music was called ragtime because of the how ragged their arrangements were. Ragtime was like marches and it has a European harmony with African rhythm. This style of music became known as it was used for actors to do their cakewalk, which is a high stepping dance, at the end of the minstrel shows. An African American, Scott Joplin was named the “King of Ragtime”. After World War I, ragtime music was overshadowed by the Tin Pan Alley, which was a street of publishing house with pianos playing simultaneously (Ferris, 2014).

Swing band arrangements were in large part composed, often of simple, repeated material, or “riffs,” that alternated between contrapuntal lines and intense unison rhythms. Improvisation also had a featured role, and soloists would play while the rest of the band, aside from the rhythm section, dropped out or played arranged background lines.

This ensemble is comprised of an auditioned group of 7th and 8th graders who have had at least one complete year of musical instruction. In this ensemble, the students will be exposed to different styles of the American musical art form of jazz which would include but not be limited to: swing, bebop, ballads, Latin/Afro-Cuban, and Commercial (Rock). The big band will rehearse and perform pieces and arrangements of the preceding styles as well as work on introductory jazz improvisatory skills (language, chord relationships, scale relationships, etc.). Along with being within a big band setting, the students will have the opportunity to perform in combo settings to help refine their growing improvisation skills as well as nurture critical listening skills. The course will also be supplemented with lectures on the history and development of jazz and commercial music as well as listening sessions to place musical styles in appropriate contexts.

Utilized almost exclusively for dancing, the music of the big bands borrowed heavily from the techniques introduced by Henderson. Among the most popular bands were those led by Goodman, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman, the Dorsey brothers, and Artie Shaw. As a counterpart of the highly arranged orchestrations of these New York-based bands, a Kansas City swing style developed under the influence of Count Basie and Bennie Moten that emphasized a blues

The Ragtime is a musical era that we sort of consider that a starting about 1875 and extending to 1918 when the term Jazz become more prominent in American popular music, but for that twenty years that would be the Rock and Roll over the day. Ragtime music was the essence of popular music and it was considered what America had to offer to world music. There was something very special about Ragtime music. It was different from everything that had preceded and that almost every all kinds of music that have been played before. Basically, we’re on the beat and didn’t have that essence of syncopation that was at the heart of Ragtime music.