Jazz Concert Report Sample

On the evening of February 21, 2018, I attended a Jamey Aebersold live jazz concert featuring Howard Levy and Chris Siebol at the music building at UIC. Since, I had never been to a jazz concert prior to this one, I did not know what to expect, but since it was my first time, I was excited. In my opinion, the evening’s program was nicely presented. The musicians started by introducing themselves, Howard Levy, an American multi-instrumentalist who switched off with playing the harmonica and the piano and Chris Siebold who played the guitar and sang for a few songs. Due to that fact that they played all the songs together the texture of their songs were polyphonic.
One of the first songs that they performed was “Tri-State Boogie,” by Howard …show more content…
The next song they played was, “Amor Ala.” Since the song started off with minor keys this song set my mood to be gloomy. The piece of music and the notes that were played in this piece, made me daze off into my own world leaving me alone with the company of my thoughts. This piece made me want to go back to the times I was sitting in my room, in my cozy bed, under my warm sheets, just listening to the sound of the raindrops, drip and the cars driving in puddles, making the water splash letting me to release the stress that I had. The harmonica started off beautifully with its dynamics of pianissimo. As the song continued, the melody of the song was overall really graceful. The very beginning of the song was breathtaking for me because of how elegantly it sounded. Levy switched to playing the piano which I found to be peaceful with the tune because it was beginning to be mezzo forte, but then switched to piano. This made me realize how amazing the song sounded. I wondered how many measures there were throughout the song and how many breathes they would have to take because the notes were held out for a long time, on the harmonica. The other musician, Siebol, was playing his guitar in the background throughout the whole song. I understand that this is a very important role to the piece that was being played because without the guitar, it would’ve been harder to keep the harmony and melody. The tempo and the melody stayed the same throughout the song. Toward the middle/end of the song, the notes on the harmonica and piano were very low notes. This continued on or a while. After a few notes, on the piano, I came to the realization that Levy was pulling towards a central pitch which is tonal in which I found myself to be in a jolly mood. The music returned to its original tempo coming back to the same rhythm. The piece concluded with a long hold of notes such as half notes and eighth