Jazz fusion

On the question of a moral duty to play music authentically, the starting point of the essay is best embodied with a quote from the late critic of Jazz Ralph J. Gleason, who said, “[T]he blues is black man's music, and whites diminish it at best or steal it at worst. In any case they have no moral right to use it.”5 This quote from Gleason expresses the moral problems of authenticity in music…

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September 21, 2015, I had the pleasure of watching University Jazz Combos. The performance was held at the University of Louisville School Of Music in the Bird Recital Hall. These three combos consisted of the Mark Turner Combo directed by Tyrone Wheeler, Illinois Jacquet Combo directed by Ansyn Banks, and Michael Brecker Combo also directed by Ansyn Banks. I wasn’t for sure what to expect when coming to this concert. Different from the other jazz performance I attended, this one was much…

I didn’t choose the tuba, the tuba chose me. I feel like this is how all tuba players started off. The tuba is the largest but one of the youngest members of the brass family. It is not the hardest instrument to play but it is not the easiest either. I did not expect to play the tuba at any point in my life, however due to certain circumstances, I ended up playing the tuba for the Barlow band. The journey first started my freshman year of high school. I was playing the trumpet at the time.…

to her, like I’ll Remember April by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye. That song I’ll Remember April was important in her life because she told the audience that on April 1 1945 is when she could leave Manzanar. I appreciated her performances it had a jazz vibe and was sharing stories about life in Manzanar made everything more personal, she shared one story about how she met her husband on a blind date and her discussed her love for music. The co-host of this event did a great job Kathryn…

I first started playing the Trombone when I was four years old, after being taken to countless Jazz concerts by my father and Grandmother. To this day, I still vividly remember those performances, emphatically tapping my foot to the beat while trying to listen to every note played by my Jazz idols, Wynton Marsalis and Wycliffe Gordon. There, at Jazz at Lincoln Center, I was taught a new language, a new way of communication and expression; music. Wanting in every way to emulate those defining…

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet was an exceptionally fascinating occasion. My purpose for my statement is that I have never really been to a live jazz performance and it was a new experience for me. My immediate thought upon entry was that the presentation was going be exhausting and long. In spite of the fact that it lasted quite a while it was justified regardless of my while in light of the fact that I really wound up liking the performance. I think the Brubeck Brothers Quartet was amazing and I…

Many people enjoy listening to music. For some, it helps them focus on a certain task, for others it helps distract them from their thoughts and then some people just listen because they want to. No matter what reason we listen to music, most people can agree that it makes us feel something special. That is why I believe that Twenty One Pilots is the best band anyone could listen to because of the amount of emotion they bring in such an upbeat way. Firstly, the band began in 2009 and released…

After going through all the songs in this module, I can see some similarities in all of them. But the only one thing am going to talk about is the repetition in some of the songs in Jazz, Gospel songs, Blues, and Hip-hop. Also, they were songs of war or civil right movement. Let me start with “This Little Light of Mine” in Gospel music. People sang this song and other spirituals song during the Civil Rights Movement as a way of expressing unity as they fought for equal rights and freedom for…

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