Concert Jazz Report
Esa Mahmood
Music
July 11, 2013
Butts
Jazz Concert Report The concert I decided to go to was held in Valley Brewing Company. The event was called “Take 5, Jazz at the Brew”. I went to the show July 11, 2013. The group I saw didn’t have a name. It was just a group of people performing together. The concert hall was a very nice venue. It was on an extended closed off area past the common area at the bar. The area was very dim lit and was decorated very fancy and elaborate. The music that was played that night was Jazz. The group had 4 people in the group and they all came from different backgrounds. The Drummer was a young African American male that was very talented. The trumpet player was a heavy set Caucasian male that looked like he was 35 or so. The cello player was a 28 year old young male with long hair in a ponytail. I assumed the leader of the group was the pianist because he spoke on the microphone and announced everyone’s name that was playing an instrument. There was also an older African American gentleman that was at the bar that played the saxophone. He only played two songs because it was his birthday so he was enjoying himself at the bar. They played about 5 different songs but I could only catch four of them. The first song they played was called “You Don’t Know What Love is”. They didn’t mention who made the song. The song had a rough texture. All the instruments were playing very loud and wildly throughout the song. There wasn’t much form to this song. The saxophone was playing its own tune while the piano, cello, and drums had some type of repetition. There wasn’t a melody. I felt like they were playing off each other’s energy. There was some rhythm to this song but majority of the time it sounded like it was all freestyle. I think its just because jazz is played like that. The dynamics to this song was very soft and low key aside from the saxophone. The tempo was slow at first then it really picked up 30 seconds into the song. Overall
Music
July 11, 2013
Butts
Jazz Concert Report The concert I decided to go to was held in Valley Brewing Company. The event was called “Take 5, Jazz at the Brew”. I went to the show July 11, 2013. The group I saw didn’t have a name. It was just a group of people performing together. The concert hall was a very nice venue. It was on an extended closed off area past the common area at the bar. The area was very dim lit and was decorated very fancy and elaborate. The music that was played that night was Jazz. The group had 4 people in the group and they all came from different backgrounds. The Drummer was a young African American male that was very talented. The trumpet player was a heavy set Caucasian male that looked like he was 35 or so. The cello player was a 28 year old young male with long hair in a ponytail. I assumed the leader of the group was the pianist because he spoke on the microphone and announced everyone’s name that was playing an instrument. There was also an older African American gentleman that was at the bar that played the saxophone. He only played two songs because it was his birthday so he was enjoying himself at the bar. They played about 5 different songs but I could only catch four of them. The first song they played was called “You Don’t Know What Love is”. They didn’t mention who made the song. The song had a rough texture. All the instruments were playing very loud and wildly throughout the song. There wasn’t much form to this song. The saxophone was playing its own tune while the piano, cello, and drums had some type of repetition. There wasn’t a melody. I felt like they were playing off each other’s energy. There was some rhythm to this song but majority of the time it sounded like it was all freestyle. I think its just because jazz is played like that. The dynamics to this song was very soft and low key aside from the saxophone. The tempo was slow at first then it really picked up 30 seconds into the song. Overall