The Music Of Duke Ellington

The date was December 8th, 2017, I had the pleasure of seeing the Saddleback College Jazz Combos perform at the McKinney Theater. The theater is quite large holding about 100~200 seats but seemed to offer a good acoustic balance for the combos that played. Also, one can tell that it was the holiday season by just entering the theater. It was festive as it was decorated with christmas trees with christmas lights and the front was filled with light up flower vases. Furthermore, this concert is a cumulation of different jazz students put into small groups and perform in front of an audience. This concert also showcases their efforts as a group as well as differences in skill level amongst the combos.

Last Thursday, I attended the Department of Music Concert Series at the Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center. I was able to listen to both the Symphony Band, under the direction of Dr. Cara Morantz as well as the Wind Symphony Band directed by Dr. Sean Murray. They presented a tremendous performance comprised of pieces by J.B. Chance, Frank Ticheli, Samuel Hazo as well as a wide variety of other authors. The event was pleasurable to me, as well as many others in attendance to the concert. By the looks, colleagues families and teachers came to support the talented musicians on stage that night!

Want to hear some good music? Listen to this artist that is just the bees knees. Duke Ellington, a pianist, performs at Broadway nightclubs as the bandleader of a sextet. This amazing group includes other people like his ensemble includes as Bubber Miley, Joe Nanton, Cootie Williams, Rex Stewart Johnny Hodges Rex Stewart, Lawrence Brown, Harry Carney, Barney Bigard. Ellington has already made many recordings with his bands, appeared in films and on radio. He is the new it. Why just sit there? Go switch a radio station playing his awesome music

This weekend I attended a wonderful All Stars show at the Jazz Showcase held by Pianist Willie Pickens on Friday, July , 08, 2016, at 8:00 pm . As I mentioned in my first concert review the Jazz Showcase is located at the Dearborn Station in Chicago, IL . This time I went to this jazz performance with my two older sisters. Although I already got to walk around the place the first time I visited, it was my sisters first time there and they want to walk around and look at the memorabilia on the walls . The Jazz Showcase consist of two main levels known as the “Upstairs level” and “ Downstairs level” . The first time I came to the Jazz showcase I was seated in the “Downstairs

This concert report will go into great detail regarding the performance that I witnessed, as well as the genre of Jazz that was played, the artist, and the techniques that were used. I will start with my personal experience of the concert that I attended. This will focus on the details of the performance, as well as my mindset before and after the show. Next, this paper will research the origins of the genre of Jazz that was played, which is Funk and has been supported by several scholarly sources. Then I will look at the origin of the Jam Session. Finally I will then end with information regarding the performers themselves as well as the history of the venue.

For my second review I attended Jazz at Wolfson again. However, this concert was different from the first performance two weeks ago. Special guest this time was saxophone player Mark Colby, Mike Di Liddo, guitar, Jim Gasior, piano, Gary Thomas, bass and Rodolfo Zuniga played drums. Auditorium was about half full.

On Wednesday April 12, 2017 I went to the Frost Studio Jazz Band Concert at the Maurice Gusman Concert Hall at the University of Miami. The conductors of the concert included frost students at the University of Miami who are graduating this year. The conductors were Jessica Hawthorne, Andrew Loose, Kyle Moreen, Andrew Peal and Derek Pyle. The concert also included guests artists trumpet players Brian Lynch and Jesus Mato, Jr. This concert also had remarkable soloists who displayed their talent and showed mastery in their respective instruments. The instruments in this concert included the Woodwinds, Trumpets, Trombones, Piano, Guitar, Acoustic Bass and Drums. The pieces that were performed during this concert were Black Nile, A Potter’s Song, Long Yellow Road, We

I attended one of the many Jazz concerts held here at Friends University. Somehow I always get stuck in the far back and off to the side of the concert hall and I don’t get to hear the music that well .I usually get to hear the voices clearly or an earful of some of the instruments then I can’t hear the other side playing. This time I finally was able to get a perfect middle seat on the floor. I had a great view of everyone and the acoustics were fabulous. Since I’m not use to going to jazz concerts in particular, I asked one of the music majors here at Friends what I should expect. They informed me that I must have the right mindset in order to fully appreciate the art of Jazz. I should be ready for anything and plenty of fun. So with that, I went in with a completely

Funk Combo, coached by Chris Madsen, and the Jazz Workshop, conducted by Professor Madsen, and special guest Victor Garcia. All three groups did an outstanding job. They had many moments that I could hear were very similar to what we have been learning in jazz history. It was interesting to actually hear everything that was being taught in class being exercised in the concert. In this paper I will be talking about

My first Jazz concert was a faculty Recital by the members of CCNY. The band that was playing was called the Pittson Family Band. Suzanne Pittson was using her voice, Evan Pittson was on the electric viola, Jeff Pittson was on the piano, Giacomo Tagliavia was on the bass and finally Anthony Pinciotti on the drums. There was a total of six songs and in this essay I plan to discuss what I heard during the concert.

The name of concert was Jazz Ensemble II. It was on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 8 p.m. in the Julien J. Studley Theatre. The director of this concert was John Menegon. There were five instruments available those are bass, trumpet, drums, alto sax, and guitar. In addition to the instruments there were two vocals. Six pieces were played those were How Deep is the Ocean (Irving Berlin), S.T. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) , Donna Lee/ Back Home in Indiana (Charlie Parker/ Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley) , Motion Detector (John Menegon) , A night in Tunisia (music by Dizzy Gillespie, lyric by Ella Fitzgerald) , and the last one was I don’t need No Doctor (music by John Mayer), respectively.

I have never been in a jazz club before. I always wanted to attend a live performance of American jazz musicians and learn more about the history of jazz. It was one of the reasons I chose this class in the first place. From my perspective, I view jazz together with classical instrumental music as elegant and exclusive. I associate it with luxurious restaurants, theaters, places like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, where people with great taste and deep understanding of music come to enjoy performances and celebrate important moments in their life. For my final paper I had an opportunity to visit the famous Village Vanguard jazz club on January 12th, 2014.

The jazz combo II concert at Fine Arts Center in Concert Hall was overall wonderful to say the least, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was a great evening filled with great music and intellectually riveting experience of jazz, especially having to experience it outside of a class setting. It is important to note that like many things in life, there is always a past, hearing the different mixers of jazz; even though it had rooted from other genres was quite

Instruments played during the ensembles were the clarinet, tuba, cornet, baritone, drums and the piano. Each sub style of jazz had different ensemble instrument set ups. “Dixieland groups of New Orleans has similar instrumentation” to early jazz (Shrine Music). Larger groups were operated more of an orchestral sound during the swing era. As for Big Bands, they mostly comprised of “…wind orchestras containing alto and tenor sax sections, trumpet and trombone sections, along with piano and drums (Shrine Music). The saxophone and trumpet were the most advantaged instruments for major soloists during the bop era. Those soloists were accompanied by the piano, string bass, and drums. As Fusion came to rise, “…electric instruments such as the electric guitar and keyboard synthesizer became prominent” (Shrine

I attended David T. Wallace Jr. Saxophone concert, on March 3, 2017 at 4 pm in the Morrison Fine arts building. He was accompanied by a pianist Run Guthrie. The event was held in a choir room, and it started on time. I have never been to a saxophone or piano concert, it was a fun and new experience. The two-man played the first tune together call “Carnival of Venice” by Henry W. Davis, which was originally played with a Baritone or Trombone and not a saxophone. The tune was soft and airy like. The piano in the background made it even more beautiful.