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For this first review I attended the Jazz Improvisation Ensemble concert here at the University of Redlands on Monday, November the 30th at eight in the evening in the Frederick Lowe Recital Hall. The concert featured two groups: the Eleven O’clock Jazz Improvisation Ensemble with charts that included “Sugar” by Stanley Turrentine, “Moon Alley” by Tom Harrell, and “Chicken Dog” by John Scofield; and the One O’clock Jazz Improvisation with charts that included “Joy Spring” by Clifford Brown, “Theme for Ernie” by Fred Lacey, and “Lyresto” by Kenny Burrell. For the in depth discussion, I have chosen to focus on “Chicken Dog” by Scofield. This piece by Scofield featured a quintet type ensemble that had Victoria Batta on flute, Joseph Buschatzke on guitar, Benjamin Purper on electric bass, Daniel Murphy on electric keyboard, and Jeff Olsen on drum set. The piece was in a jazz-rock-funk fusion style, with a bigger stress on the funk that achieved through the twang of electric bass and the mellow sounds of the electric keyboard set to a light gospel organ timbre. The main melody of the tune was very smooth and simple, featuring some repetitions of these small, bluesy riff ideas to make some longer four bar phrases. The melody and improvisation did feature syncopation, but overall the groove of the piece was laid back. From what I could gather, the piece was performed at moderate and steady tempo in a 4/4-time meter. The overall form of the piece centered on this 16-bar AABC…

In 1981, British band Queen and the solo artist David Bowie got together and the result of that was a song that was released later in that year with the title “Under Pressure.” The song faced major success in the United Kingdom and reached the top on the UK singles chart. That would be the second number one single that Queen has seen to itself in the UK after the legendary “Bohemian Rhapsody” and at the same time Bowie’s third number-one hit in the UK. The song starts with a very distinctive…

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which create dissonance and passionate harsh sound. Harmony is primarily developed through two clichés – one being the rock n’ roll chord progression of I-VI-IV-V, and the other being the I-IV-V of the blues. The verse is a bluesy style twelve bar form, with Lennon incorporating two unconventional “surprise” chords into the harmony. The first is a tritone between G# and D in the verse’s second measure, and the second is an augmented triad on G# in the second measure of the third phrase in the…

This is me, the one who opted for the odd against the others. I decided to join band as the only one of my scholar batch. I knew that my priority is studying and that being a band member, I must dedicate much time in developing music skills. But I thought twice and even thrice. I made up my mind even when I knew a difficult journey is awaiting me. Holding the tuba, I gasped for air. Those vibratos were so unstable, just like me. Why still I can’t do it? Even with my eyes closed, I can read the…

Listening Assignment 5: Late Baroque vs. Classical Every era in history has left their mark and in the process has affected many cultures and other time periods. The “Baroque” era, which began in the year 1600 and lasted an estimated 150 years, not only created new music, but a new artistic style that spread all across Europe. Through this new artistic style that spread like wild fire in this long span, a practice in continuo was also formed. Continuo is better known as parts accompanied…

hardcore singer Nic Offer from the The Yah Mos. The band's name was inspired by the subtitles of the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, in which the clicking sounds of the Bushmens' Khoisan language were represented as "!". However, as the bandmembers themselves say, !!! is pronounced by repeating thrice any monosyllabic sound. "Chk Chk Chk" is the most common pronunciation,[2] which the URL of their official website and the title of their Myspace page suggest is the preferred pronunciation.[4] The…

with no further analysis or specificity is perhaps the most vague definition on earth. Music is, in fact, so much more. Not only can music span across all sorts of genres, but these genres can be divided even further and made more specific by looking at the number of musicians performing - that is, the orchestral, ensemble, and solo music. Style, perhaps, fluctuates the most of all aspects of a performance with the size of the group. Large orchestral groups or symphony orchestras may have…

was released by T.N.T Recordings, Interscope Records, and Eastwest Records America. Currently the rights of this album belongs to Amuru Entertainment. This album is similar to Shakur’s debut album, 2pacolypse Now. It discusses Shakur’s political and social views. Shakur’s original idea was to name the album, Troublesome 21, and release it in September 1992. “Keep Ya Head Up” is a song about 2pac’s views on one of the worst conflicts: Mistreating Women. It is mostly targeted to poor African…

For this project, I am focusing on Flora from the book, The Game of Love and Death, by Martha Brockenbrough. I chose the song, Dream a Little Dream of Me, sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong for Flora because it sounds like a song Flora would sing at the Domino. The jazzy trumpet with the noticeable walking bassline, paired with the chemistry of Fitzgerald’s and Armstrong’s voices produces a song that undeniably represents Henry and Flora. When I heard the version of this song sung by…