Ziff Davis

Widely acclaimed saxophonist, Donny McCaslin, a graduated of the Berklee College of Music, started to show enormous compositional and improvisational capabilities very early, namely in 1998, when he released his debut album Exile and Discovery. Other aesthetically rigorous works such as The Way Through, Soar, and In Pursuit all became intimately connected to a miraculous phase in his career that turned this Californian promise into a highly respected voice within the new jazz scene. During that period

Mr. John Philip Sousa started his band when he was about twenty-four years old. He was appointed Director of the Marine Band at Washington. After ten or eleven years, he attracted the attention of several gentlemen interested in music, who formed themselves into a syndicate and made Mr. John Philip Sousa an offer to leave Washington and start a new band. It was a success from the first time. Mr. John Philip Sousa how many marches has he written Mr. John Philip Sousa has written less than hundred

I have always enjoyed music since I picked it up my first alto sax in the 6th grade. Of all the enjoyment music gave me and all its feelings it can create I could finally make some of my own. For the 7 years I have been playing in school it still remains a large part of my life. It gives me a great enjoyment to push myself everyday to do better. The dream of one day playing in a great college jazz ensemble propels me forward in my music because of the disadvantage of my school's jazz program. Playing

On The Run I am running. The sky is dark, or as dark as it gets at 4:20 in the morning. It's about 30 degrees outside and i’m wearing mint green pajama shorts with smiling pigs all over, a tank top and ankle socks with a whole in the right toe. My heart is panicking. My lungs are closing, I am gasping for any air that will graciously enter. Running is my favorite passed time but I wouldn't exactly say I am enjoying it right now. My thoughts shifted, “everything is going to be okay,” it murmured

I have never held anything against violin players. The sweet sorrow of coarse horse hairs vibrating tight metal strings is literal music to my ears, and anyone with command over a sound like that is my friend any day. But somehow learning that instrument is beyond me. During sixth grade, I first started learning trumpet. Not coincidentally, that is also the time that I began to teach myself how to play piano. Starting at ridiculously low speeds, I would slowly memorize individual notes until I could

Aundria McCadney The night of February 18, 2016 I attended “The MTSU Faculty Jazztet” concert in Wright Music Hall. This jazz band consists of David Willford, Don Aliquo, Micheal Parkinson, Jamey Simmions, Joe Davidian, Patrick Arwater, and Derrek Phillps performed eight jazz selections. The crowd that night was about 70-80 people, and part were older and the other half was students. When I think about a jazz performance a drum and piano player did not come to mind. I expected for the show to be

Duke Ellington was an American composer, and a bandleader who had composed thousands of scores over his 50 year career.Duke Ellington was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. He was a major figure in the history of jazz music, Ellington career spanned more than half of the time of his composed thousands of songs for the stage, screen, and songbook. Ellington made one of the most distinctive ensemble sounds in the western music and had continued to play what he called American music. Duke Ellington

Despite this turn over, the pattern of moving from one style to the next benefited postmodern jazz musicians as they were able to capitalize upon the apparent open mindedness from the public to the varied methods of musical expression (358). Through the help of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), musicians were able to find performing opportunities, rehearsal space, and other career support (358). The first president of the organization, pianist Richard Abrams, gathered

The alto saxophonist, John Coltrane, was one of the most cultural-ethical leaders of avant-garde jazz, in the 1960’s. He was an innovative composer and artist who pushed the boundaries of contemporary jazz. Avant-gardism liberated artists from the traditional form of jazz and pushed them to question and change the whole idea of jazz itself. Coltrane was the type of musician who believed that he could always be better than he already was. It was not unusual for someone to see him always practicing

comes to music, Miles Davis is one of the finest in the business. He was one of the most talented African American trumpet players from a small town in St. Louis. Davis changed the face of Jazz music between the 1950s and 1990s; he was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Miles was the first jazz musician to influence many listeners in his jazz and rock rhythms. Not only was Davis a musician he was a composer, a producer and a bandleader. Miles Davis was an efficacious Jazz