Essay On Jazz Instruments

Lead by jazz director Marko Marcinko, with Jazz being one of my favorite forms of music, it was an honor to listen to Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble. Unfortunately, since I didn’t get the chance to listen to it live, I made sure to wear my beats headphones so I can hear every last instrument clearly. Instantaneously when the band started to play, I felt like I was in a 1920’s New Orleans club. The harmony was very upbeat and dance like, I began to tap my foot to the three beat tempo. The band was full of woodwind instruments and one percussion instrument, but my favorite instrument was the saxophone. The sound of the instrument was a very conjunct melody and comforting to me. One part I really did adore that was in major key was when the saxophone had …show more content…
As well as the drummer Sebastian, did very well not overpowering the other instruments playing. At one point one of the trumpet players was holding a small item at the end of his instrument that look like the end of a toilet plunger, which confused me a little bit. But, I just assumed it was there to make the sound more rounded. Also, towards the end of “Jackson Square”, it reminded me of show girls slowly kicking their legs up back and forth while the big dramatic red curtain closes at the end. The irony when the singer, Eva George began to sing “Come Rain or Come Shine”, it was a thunderstorm going on and I was wishing the sun would come through instead of the rain. Her voice was in mezzo-soprano and it was very controlled. But, at one point her voice sounded contralto because how powerful it was. When the piano started to play, it was very playful and childish like. It almost reminded me of a cartoon character dancing around in circles. When “Fiesto Mojo” started, it certainly began to get my blood pumping and I wanted to get out of my desk and start dancing, it was very uplifting dancing type of