Vocal jazz

Vocal Jazz Ensemble The concert that I went to the “Vocal Jazz Ensemble” on the date of May 21. Performance from the Vocal Jazz Ensemble and special guest Final Note-Us, both group performed extremely well and sang great songs. The concert consisted of eight songs, two from Final Note-Us group and six from the main performers Vocal Jazz Ensemble. There were thirteen vocalist in the opening group and a pianist, while the main group had twelve vocalist, one pianist, one bass, and one drum. Before

I attended Kayla Schwartz jazz vocal performance in University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. Of the bat, I thought this performance would be great because although it was in a small classroom a lot of audience attended, to the point where some audience members had to stand since all the seats were taken. The first song was titled Elation, the original song was developed by Mulgrew Miller, and is essentially in the be-bop genre, hard bop to be exact. Although I enjoyed this song it wasn't my

The UIC Vocal Jazz Ensemble started the performance first. The ensemble consisted of thirteen members, and they opened the performance with a Christmas carol. There were three males and four female soloists who were scat singing. The ending of the song was very cool when the male soloist said, “Better watch out now”. The song was very interesting and created a delightful atmosphere to start the performance along with the Christmas spirit. The second song that the ensemble performed was called “In

“I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.” Billie Holiday, some call her “queen of jazz”, is an African American jazz female singer and songwriter who had tremendous influence on jazz and pop culture. Billie Holiday had a tough youth as she grew up. Her father, Clarence Holiday, abandoned her and her family to pursue his music dream when Holiday was still a baby. In furtherance of take off some of the pressure for the family financially, Holiday started to perform singing

prominent singers of all time. Though life provided numerous struggles she still managed to push through and complete her childhood dreams of becoming an entertainer. Fitzgerald’s voice developed through the style of music in the 20’s, eminent artists vocal structure and the emotion she channeled into her music due to her family’s financial issues. Overall Fitzgerald’s life during the 1920’s allowed her to develop into becoming a memorable artist. Ella Fitzgerald had a difficult childhood in the 1920’s

On May 13, 2016, the Vocal Jazz Ensembles at Sacramento State University had their one of the last concerts before the semester ended, which was directed by our professor Gaw Vang Williams. This concert was performed by four groups and different solo, which was completely different experience from the first two concerts that I attended at Sac State. In this Vocal Jazz concert, there was packed and a lot of audiences who were friends, family and students come to support and enjoy before this semester

rock’n’roll and jazz music were not genres that were discussed formally in class or in any assignments, they are each forms of music that thoroughly defined either a time period or a culture of a certain region. Rock and roll and jazz are two contrasting genres with slightly similarities between them. They have both been inspired by older and more prominent genres like blues and have also evolved later genres from different regions of the world such as pop music and reggae music. Also, jazz incorporates

mainly homophonic in texture as there is always one independent melody. When vocal sings the main melody, other instruments such as drum and piano play the bass lines. However, as the song gets close to the end, its texture becomes more like polyphonic. Imitation, Call and response and counterpoint abound. After repeating the main melody six times, there is call and response between trumpets and vocal. The vocal asks, “Tell me what’d I say” and trumpets answer. The same idea is repeated several

Lorenz Hart. The version by jazz singer Billie Holiday was release in 1952. The work is performed by a mixed ensemble consisting of a single soloist and a jazz quartet. The meter and the rhythm can be categorized as a compound meter with accented upbeats. The texture of the version performed by Billie Holiday is polyphonic as the vocalist and the musicians have different lines of music that are being performed at the same time. This type of texture was common for the jazz songs of the time. The melody

1521078 Did country, blues and jazz evolve stylishly It Is difficult to define what exactly music is in today's standards you can quite easily offend anyone. However, there Is truth behind the fact that music is constantly changing as when it changed decades leading up to the age of rock, soul and hip-hop influencing genres. In ten years time, there will potentially be different music. However the discussion I will discuss is styles of country, blues and jazz and how it evolved. Honky-Tonk-