Jazz Concert Reflection Jazz is a musical style that began in African American communities in the southern United States around the beginning of the twentieth century. It was a new style of music that brought together music traditions from West Africa and Europe. Some of its West African musical influences give jazz its unique sound. Jazz has many different elements‚ which are improvisations‚ swinging‚ using blue notes‚ and combining different
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The formal jazz concert was held at New England Conservatory- Jordan Hall Thursday‚ November 29‚ 2012. The New England Conservatory is well known for its contemporary improvisation program. The program was founded in 1972 by musical visionaries Gunther Schuller and Ran Blake‚ trains musicians to develop their composing‚ performing‚ and improvising skills. Several concerts have been held at N.E.C(New England Conservatory)‚ but the main theme of this specific one is "Rebirth of the Third Stream". "The
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Mus1104 Concert Review A Night of Jazz with the University Jazz Bands The concert I chose to attend was the University Jazz Bands’ Student Ensemble Concert on Wednesday‚ March 6‚ 2013. The concert featured two ensembles‚ both the Virginia Tech Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Lab Band. At this concert‚ I was both a perceptive listener due to my knowledge of music and music performance‚ and a casual listener enjoying my friends performing a great concert. I enjoy my nature of listening because I can
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The first question I asked myself at the beginning of the quarter was how much do I actually know about jazz? I have always characterized jazz music as a rhythmic and instrumental form of music. My impression on the basis of the jazz has always been portrayed with the African-American race. I think this was build up from the rhythm n’ blues era and meaning according to the dictionary ("style of music that was invented by African American musicians in the early part of the twentieth century and
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Concert Report This semester I attended a jazz concert put on by Truman State University’s Department of Music. It was on December 5th at 8 pm‚ in Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall. The university’s Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Lab band both performed. Both bands were directed by Tim AuBuchon. The bands drew in a decently sized crowd. I was able to recognise several of my peers sitting in the audience alongside of me. I pleasantly surprised by the size of the bands and the level of skill they had. Both
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Jazz Concert Review [pic] The first formal small jazz concert was held at the Maum Café on Sep. 25th‚ 2008. There were many music performances have held at the Maum Café but Zino Park‚ leader of the band‚ and manager of Maum Café agreed to arrange a formal jazz concert for the first time. The main theme of this concert was “Smooth Jazz with Zino Park at Maum”. Before the concert began‚ the band members introduced themselves to the audience. The names of players were: Acoustic guitar
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the best‚ jazz music is the best genre of music of all time. Jazz is the best type of music in ways that many other types of music can
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E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime was a very interesting historical fiction reading that showed the great wealth inequality that occurred between the rich and poor in New York City during the early 20th century. One interesting passage that I found shocking was how Jacob Riis made maps in the latter end of Chapter 3. I previously knew that Jacob Riis took pictures showing the horrific nature of tenements; a fact that is shown in the novel as well with Doctorow writing‚ “The tenements glowed like furnaces
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In the 1920s‚ an era called the Jazz Age‚ also known as the roaring twenties‚ came about. The Jazz Age occurred when the economy of America was in its prime‚ before the tragedy of the Stock Market Crash and Great Depression. The Jazz Age brought forth significant female suffrage leaders‚ writers‚ and musicians‚ each influencing a different class of people in society. Jazz was created in the twentieth century by a group of African American musicians from New Orleans (Teachout). They
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Jazz: The History The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime‚ marching band music and Blues. What made Jazz such a different perspective of traditional music was its act of improvising. There was a widespread use of improvisation often by more than one player at a time. Songwriters would write the music down on a piece of paper‚ and then the Jazz musicians would try their best to play the music. Usually in a Jazz piece‚ musicians would
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