This report summarizes a concert performed at the Lincoln Center in New York in March 2016 by a Dixieland band “The Gotham Jazzmen”. This report will highlight the origin of the genre and the band, the characteristic features of Dixieland, The contribution of “Gothan Jazzzmen” to the genre, and an overview of the concert.
When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It surprised me to hear from one of my classmates that Jazz could have been born in Asia. More surprising are those researches that claim this birth place to be in the big northern cities such as New York, Chicago, or Detroit. Not that any other continent, city …show more content…
Going back to as far as early 18th century, New Orleans was already a melting pot for many immigrants such as Canadians, Frenchs, Spanishs, Portugais, Britishs, Filipino, Germans, Latin, the Caribean Creoles and even the slaves. New Orleans importance transpired in the words of two important learder of this period. Napoleon Bonapart stated that whoever controled New Orleans had control over the entire continent. And none other than the current President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, responding to a spanish embargo on the mississipi river echoed this statement by saying: "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market."
Another great feature of New Orleans remains the fact that it had the statut of a cultural center. Besides being a mjor crossroad for maritime and terrestrial trade in that century, with people would be moving in and out of that city and exchanging information, they were aware of the latest progress or technology being made in the world and more importantly about the latest music being published in Europe. As suporting evidence, among the three cities in the New World to have an opera house, (New York , Havana, New Orleans) New Orleans had the first one built on American soil in …show more content…
During our concert in which the band played 10 pieces, none of them was an original creation of the band. They were all popular songs or pieces that had endured the experience of time but were still shining and captivating under the mastery and the dexterity of these senior musicians. Thus, the vitality of their contribution outstood in their effort to render the musical pieces they played in their original form, although subject to their individual taste expressed in their individual improvisation. Their effort is a resounding of their fascination with this original form of jazz and their quest to make more contempory listener acquainted with this old genre in a live style performance. Their contribution is vital in keeping the genre alive besides its recorded versions available in audio and video format such as cassett, CD, and
When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It surprised me to hear from one of my classmates that Jazz could have been born in Asia. More surprising are those researches that claim this birth place to be in the big northern cities such as New York, Chicago, or Detroit. Not that any other continent, city …show more content…
Going back to as far as early 18th century, New Orleans was already a melting pot for many immigrants such as Canadians, Frenchs, Spanishs, Portugais, Britishs, Filipino, Germans, Latin, the Caribean Creoles and even the slaves. New Orleans importance transpired in the words of two important learder of this period. Napoleon Bonapart stated that whoever controled New Orleans had control over the entire continent. And none other than the current President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, responding to a spanish embargo on the mississipi river echoed this statement by saying: "There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market."
Another great feature of New Orleans remains the fact that it had the statut of a cultural center. Besides being a mjor crossroad for maritime and terrestrial trade in that century, with people would be moving in and out of that city and exchanging information, they were aware of the latest progress or technology being made in the world and more importantly about the latest music being published in Europe. As suporting evidence, among the three cities in the New World to have an opera house, (New York , Havana, New Orleans) New Orleans had the first one built on American soil in …show more content…
During our concert in which the band played 10 pieces, none of them was an original creation of the band. They were all popular songs or pieces that had endured the experience of time but were still shining and captivating under the mastery and the dexterity of these senior musicians. Thus, the vitality of their contribution outstood in their effort to render the musical pieces they played in their original form, although subject to their individual taste expressed in their individual improvisation. Their effort is a resounding of their fascination with this original form of jazz and their quest to make more contempory listener acquainted with this old genre in a live style performance. Their contribution is vital in keeping the genre alive besides its recorded versions available in audio and video format such as cassett, CD, and