Personal Narrative: My First Jazz Concert

On Wednesday, April 19th at 8:00 at Rowan University, I attended my first Jazz concert! It was quite an interesting experience. If I am being honest, I went into it thinking I would not enjoy myself, but I left the concert having a great time. The concert had 9 men and between those men there were 8 different instruments. The 8 instruments that were used were: the guitar, baritone saxophone, saxophone, bass, drums, trumpet, piano, and trombone. During this concert, there were 7 songs played that were written originally by well-known Jazz artists. I was amazed during this concert how well 3 or 4 different instruments sounded in such perfect harmony together. I was very glad that the performers who were playing the instruments were so into the songs. It made the …show more content…
The dynamic of this song was quite loud for most of the piece. If I am being completely honest, I thought this song was very unorganized. In fact, I wrote down in my notes, “This does not even sound like the same song”. That does not mean it was not a good song, because I thought it was great! It just seemed like the notes were not consistent throughout the song. Although, I do think that was the point of the song. The notes not being consistent would be considered a rhythm change. Although, the way the song started, was the same way it had ended. Each song from there on out, besides one, "The Very Thought of You", all had a loud dynamic. I genuinely had a difficult time finding meter in songs, as it can be hard to catch. Although, one song I was able to figure out, “It Could Happen To you” by Jimmy Van Heusen. I looked up the term of 4 beats and it can be called common time which was the meter in this song. One song that only consisted of two instruments, the drums, and the baritone saxophone, was “Sophisticated Lady” by Duke Ellington. Throughout that song, the baritone saxophone held the melody of the song. The drums were more of a background