For example, the song at times changes from a quiet saxophone soli, to a loud shout chorus, to a uniquely created improvised solo. The second track on this album—“Love Theme from Hair”—is my favorite on the CD. I like this song because it is a soft ballad that is simplistically happy. Mike Vax delves into this tune and explores range, melody and emotion as the featured soloist. This song is not a standard or an original, but it holds a special place in my jazz repertoire.
He grabbed hold of a saxophone at the age of 13 and shows great talent. At a young age, Coltrane also tried to imitate the sound produced by the likes of Charlie Park and Johnny Hedges. As his career progressed, he had influenced countless musicians and he remains one of the most important saxophonists in jazz history. The way John Coltrane plays his 3 different types of saxophones, which were the alto, soprano and the tenor. He also played the clarinet and the alto horn.
There are also blues inflections in the vocal and guitar duet where the flat 3rd is emphasised by bending the notes at the beginning of phrases. The use of blues notes are very common in the style due to the heavy blues influence in New Orleans Jazz. Chromaticism is also featured in Duke Ellington’s Koko, again blues notes are used, for example in bar 8 of Nantons trombone solo he uses a fragment of the blues scale making use of the flattened 5th, 3rd and 7th. Another example of Chromaticism in Koko is in the double bass solos where Blanton plays descending chromatic phrases. The use of chromatic notes adds to the mood created by the minor blues chord progression.
MUS 250 Music Appreciation Concert Evaluation Form Name of Student: Ruochen Wang Featured Artist(s) or Group(s): Purdue Bands & Orchestras Genre of Music: ___Orchestra____ (e.g. classical, country, jazz, etc.) Instrumentation: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, bass clarinet, contra bass clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, trumpet, horn, trombone, euphonium, tuba, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and bass Date of Concert: Saturday, November 23 Location of Concert: __West Lafayette, IN__ (city, state) Venue of Concert: _________Playhouse, concert hall_____ (e.g. concert hall, outdoors, etc.) Quality of the Sound: ______Excellent_________________________(Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor) Comment: The Loeb Playhouse is wonderful.
Collective improvisations are when different front-line group instruments all play their improvisations at the same time! They also used polyphonic texture, which is when ‘the cornet or trumpet plays the main melody with variations, and against which the clarinet plays a higher countermelody and the trombone a lower countermelody with much sliding between the notes’(http://www.last.fm/music/Original+Dixieland+Jazz+Band). The last characteristic is that they were often played in use of the 12- Bar blues progressions. One of the well-known piece is ‘When The Saints Go
What impressed me primarily was its combination of instruments. Tenor saxophone was in the front line of the band, which controlled the leitmotifs; bass and keyboard accompanied the main melody, and they were in charge of theme sometimes; drum and congas belonged to rhythm section, which were responsible for meters. In addition, a bamboo musical instrument called clave enriched the performance that played a strong beat. These are all typical instruments of jazz music. It seems that there was no need to use two kinds of drums in one band; however, since players showed us different timbres of these instruments and performed alone, each drum sounded thin, flat and unmeaning; in contrast, when these two tones mixed, it resulted a “magic reaction” in music, which was full of energy and great passion.
Developers added extra keys and alternate fingering to help saxophonists with chromatic playing. Embouchure Everyone has heard the corny jokes about
The piece is bitonal in places. The A section is in D major and the B section modulates to C major. This song is for a male solo singer and an extended theatrical orchestra. The theatrical orchestra consists of 5 woodwind, 2 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, 7 violins, 4 cellos, In addition, he used a drum-kit, two other percussionists, piano, electric and acoustic guitars, saxophones, a mandolin and celeste. Also uses of Latin-American instruments – castanets and maracas to reflect the Puerto Rican gang.
Also another scene from the movie, which was characterized by music and that definitely impressed me, was when Laszlo begins singing followed by many people, La Marsellesa, the French national anthem, even before the occupation of the country. This singing was significant at Rick’s Café Américain because it was louder than the Germans, who were singing Die Wacht am Rhein, which was considered a patriotic anthem during Nazi Germany. Undoubtedly music represents much more than a sound. The song As Time Goes By witnessed the love between Rick and Ilsa. For them this song always brings fond memories and we can see it, when Ilsa is sitting adjacent to Sam’s piano quietly enjoying this song.
The soloing instruments seem to be the tenor saxophone, piano, trumpet (sometimes muted), and more saxophones. Some of the instruments used in this recording include trumpets, trombones, tenor/alto saxophones, clarinet, piano, and drums. A popular technique created that is still used today is to use a toilet plunger as a mute at the end of your brass horn which creates a unique and muffled jazzy tone. The band plays a bunch of different riffs that function as themes or as accompaniment material for soloists. This leads to an extremely popular technique; the call and response.