Founded in New Orleands in the early 1900's was the greatest platform for success. New Orleans was a heaven beacuse there were various coultures in a confind musical city. When Jazz became trendy everyone wanted it play, letting people from all walks of life add thier personal flare to it. That is the beauty of Jazz, though there are guidlines to what makes Jazz music there are also infanite amount of possiblities to create something unique. One of Jazz's greatest weapons for success is improvization.
First touch to Latin Jazz Music is a kind of indispensable element of people’s day-to-day life. Music is not only a pastime or an expression of art; more significantly, it also conveys musicians’ spiritual world. Unlike the pop songs that we hear in our iPods, the live band gave me a new concept about Jazz music. It seems that jazz is less relevant to our daily life and I have never heart live Latin jazz concert before; however, I got a heart attack since I had my first close contact with such a type of music. What impressed me primarily was its combination of instruments.
Jazz Band II 18 October 2013 Mike Vax: BigBandJazz.net Mike Vax is an outstanding trumpeter who specializes in Jazz studies. On his album “BigBandJazz.net” he plays in a Ferguson-esque manor, not in terms of range, but style—playing over the band as the featured soloist. The first track on this album is “Royal Rendezous”, a Mike Vax original, which is a nice and mellow swing chart featuring tenor Scott Peterson and trumpeter Mike Olmos on the solos. I really enjoy this song because it contrasts in balance and dynamics. For example, the song at times changes from a quiet saxophone soli, to a loud shout chorus, to a uniquely created improvised solo.
Dixieland jazz style is strongly influenced by the ‘traditions of blues, ragtime and brass band because Dixieland jazz was created when the traditions of blues, ragtime, and brass band were integrated into one musical piece’ (http://www.historyjazz.com). Common instruments used in this style of music are trumpet, cornet, clarinet, trombone, banjo, piano, drums, string bass, tuba and sometimes saxophone. The instruments that are in charge of rhythms and bass are the banjo, piano, drums, string bas, and tuba, and the instruments that played the melody are the trumpet, cornet, clarinet, trombone, and saxophone. Collective improvisations were used in the piece. Collective improvisations are when different front-line group instruments all play their improvisations at the same time!
The musician that caught my eye was the saxophonist. He put on a show for the audience and really left you up beat and ready to dance. The key board and drummer were somewhat to themselves, but they all contributed to the overall sound of the band. I got most in to the song “Sway” because it was one that I knew and I could really feel the beat and it definitely had my head nodding. The cultural aspect of the band was just as I imagined.
It was recorded on August 22, 1938 by Decca Records, whom he had a record deal with. I would consider this piece’s genre to be Big Band Jazz/Swing with a medium/fast tempo. The detailed dynamics, syncopated rhythms, and up-tempo swing really add to the excitement of this tune, which is in the musical form AABA. The song starts off with a 2 bar piano intro which gets the rhythm flowing and lets sections continuously join in, and is followed by four 32 bar AABA choruses. The soloing instruments seem to be the tenor saxophone, piano, trumpet (sometimes muted), and more saxophones.
However, under the guidance and the Buena Vista Club album project of Juan de Marcos Gonzalez and Ry Coder, these veteran Cuban musicians were able to bring their music to the world and have it remembered by many people. The Buena Vista Social Club film also contributed to the spread of the Afro-Cuban music from these veteran musicians by giving a brief history of the musicians and showing their performances. The focus of this paper will be on one of the performances shown in the film, the song “Chan Chan” to be specific. “Chan Chan” is the first song to be performed in the film (5:10-9:04) after the film’s introduction. This song is performed in Le Carre, Amsterdam on the eleventh and twelfth of April of 1998.
Briefly describe three contrasting techniques of improvisation; using examples from the three jazz set works you have studies. One highly common technique of improvisation is chromatic alteration throughout solos where notes outside of the chord are used in order to extend the harmony and add tensions to the chords. For example blues notes are used in all three set works. The use of the flattened 3rd and 7th are particularly noticeable in the clarinet counter melody in the 4th chorus of Hotter Than That. 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.
My music stretched and influenced various other genres such as blues, gospel, film scores, popular, and classical genres. My career spanned more than 50 years and included leading my orchestra, composing an “inexhaustible” songbook, scoring for movies, composing stage musicals, and world tours. I am generally considered to have “elevated the perception of jazz to an art form on a par with other traditional genres of music” due to my charisma and eloquence. I refer to my music as “American Music” rather than jazz. I melded the “beyond category” individuals of my orchestra into the most well-known jazz orchestral units in the history of jazz.
Bernstein uses 3-beat ostinato to set a breathy and excited mood. Jazz Harmonies, Syncopated Rhythm & Tritone are all used in this piece. ‘Something’s coming’ has a jazz harmony. The chords in this piece have blue notes, this creates a swingy, jazzy feel to the piece and makes the piece a happy, up beat song. The piece is bitonal in places.