Jazz techniques

The genius of the ingenious New York city-based jazz trio The Bad Plus can be heard again on their twelfth studio album entitled “It’s Hard”, a collection of covers that originally inhabited the pop, rock, country, jazz, and electronic music universes. Its concept contrasts with the last year’s mandatory album, “The Bad Plus Joshua Redman”, whose tracks were composed by the members of the quartet. The album opens with “Maps”, an original song by the American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs,…

Joseph Willcox Jenkins was born to William Jenkins and Genevieve Brosseau in the city of Philadelphia in 1928. Jenkins was exposed to music starting at a young age, likely receiving interest and exposer from his mother, who played piano and sang. Beginning at age six, Jenkins took piano lessons from his mother. As part of his piano instruction, Jenkins recited melodies on the piano and transposed the melodies into different keys as. This practice gave Jenkins a great leap into aural skills…

Introduction: The genre of popular music has thoroughly saturated every aspect of the music industry with catchy tunes, relatable lyrics, standard music notation, and popularity vote. The portrayal of this music is thought to be seen as the genre that is taking over from all other genres due to the popularity with the accessible availability that comes with it, and having a specific target group that they are able to pull in. My thesis states that the music for this topic identifies and…

Released at the turn of the 1980s, I AM remains the ninth studio album released by the funk and rock band Earth, Wind, and Fire. The album features a broad range of tracks spanning genres including Disco, Funk, Soul, and the classic R&B sound of the late 70s into the early 80s. This collection of songs remains one of the greatest albums ever made. The album covers hits such as “In the Stone” “After the Love Has Gone” “Boogie Wonderland” and “Diana”. Many critics oppose the album for lack of…

Just as Lee departed from Dio, the world-famous bassist Dana Strum suggested Jake E. Lee as substitute for the lately deceased Randy Rhoads to Ozzy Osbourne. Due to Lee’s creativity in technique, Ozzy settled for him regardless of having at first picked George Lynch. Lee had Osbourne’s back through the drug abuse issues and his post-recovery tour until he was unjustly fired by Sharon Osbourne –Osbourne’s wife- with no clue at the approaching…

Salutations, fellow students of Claude Watson. This is Jolie, James, and Eric from grade 8 strings. We are going to go on about the existence of empathy in music. The creation, performance, and use of music exists in all cultures, places, and in history. Music increasingly brings together many people, including a vast amount of cultures and histories. Many would even claim that music could be referred to as a “Universal Language” that can conquer cultural difference, age, social class, ability,…

of some of the things I like to do, writing music, and acting. This is because I was named after famous jazz musician: Charlie Parker! I was also named after actress: Parker Posey! This makes me feel special because I can look up to these people. But writing music and acting aren’t the only things I like to do! I also like to bake, teach, read, write, and paint! To me, my name means smooth jazz on a fresh, crisp Sunday morning. It means two syllables of strength anf courage. PAR-KER. It means…

The Treble Makers, Abnormal Altos, and Basic Bass Clefts An orchestra in made up of four very different instruments that each have their own qualities and sounds, but all the players need to put the time and energy to make an award winning orchestra. These characteristics can regularly be found in the people who play the instrument as well, and what makes each instrument different also affects the players. To be a successful orchestra one should realize the talent, dedication, and perseverance…

The music industry is one of the largest industries in the world. From the rawness of hip hop and the sensual sounds of R&B. To the funky and upbeat sounds of pop and the toe tapping rhythm of country. Music plays a big part in everyone’s life. Everything you see or hear is considered music, because music is life. In the past, women haven’t always been very big in this industry, but today that has officially changed. No matter what genre of music you listen to, women are taking over the music…

Bronx-born natural singer Jessica NYC has a sultry wide range versatile voice with just a touch of heat~ a perfect match for genres of House, Jazz-Fusion, Neo-Soul music. In the mid 90's she was backup singing in Soho studios and co-writing songs with emerging talents. 
 Jessica NYC is a true New York City Girl that has partied at many of our beloved House and R&B nightclubs~ Underground, Danceteria, Palladium, Fun House, Webster Hall, Roxy, Tunnel, Zanzibar, Limelight, Bentleys, Bonds…