Saxophone

rock and roll. Whole music is solo by a male singer who is Jor Tumer. The music with the dynamic male voice which is kind uses special man’s deep voice to sing in the high cadence voice, is kind combine by saxophone during transition phase. However the main instruments are piano, drum and saxophone. The Platters - Only You (And You Alone) is a pop music. This song is song by a band which is four accompaniments (3 male and one female) and a lead singer. Lead singer was singing a love story…

Growing up, my life revolved around music. My mother, a waitress and my father a bassist. I pretty much grew up in restaurants and bars, listening to my dad play songs Keith Richards wrote 30 years ago. Living in a house with more vinyls than square feet, I learned to love every genre of music. My parents went to every live concert they could go to; Aerosmith, Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, you name it my parents were in the crowd. When I was ten my mom told me about this great guitar…

On August 21st, 1904, one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians was born. This great musician was known as William Count Basie. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he became a pianist and a player of vaudeville based entertainment. Basie ultimately formed his own big band that had many hits, for example: “Blue Skies” and “One O’Clock Jump.” Basie’s band and music helped to define the ‘swing’ era. He became the first African American male to receive a Grammy Award. Throughout his years…

rooms and an outdoor Jazz balcony. When we arrived we noticed the presence of the restaurant has contemporary art made out of wrought iron. At the center of the waiting area, there’s a water fountain made out of Jazz instruments, such as trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, and flutes. The restaurant is lit using gas lanterns which gives it a historic look. The place is fun, colorful and brings the taste of New Orleans. They have live music that starts at 6 PM upstairs. We saw a piano player which…

and swing and is performed with typical jazz instruments (saxophone, trumpet, trombone, etc.). Throughout the piece there is a syncopated rhythmic pattern with the overall strong beat of each measure. Performed in duple meter, the tempo remains the same throughout. Mancini created this piece to be very rhythmic with staccato to accent beats. In this piece, as in many pieces of music, the melody is the main focus, staring with the saxophone soloist, then the whole group, and then to another…

Lines of melodious music filled my ears as I listened to Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy shortly after my eleventh birthday. I imagined myself playing notes on a piano creating euphonious sounds. In that moment, I decided to ask my mother for piano lessons at our local music store. I do not regret that decision, but I long to redo what I did that Saturday after my first lesson. Elated by my mother’s approval, I signed up with a teacher named Floyd. That Saturday afternoon my mother and I sat…

The Baylor University Concert Choir performed a concert entitled “Child of Song- His Song”. It was performed by roughly 79 people, both male and female. The concert was their spring recital and all songs performed were praising God. Each selection had a unique feeling associated with it as well as a different connotation. The first section of the concert was slower and more somber than the final section. These songs were used more for worship and didn’t have the upbeat feeling as the later ones…

As mentioned before, this song was written in an unusual meter which is 5/4. The song starts out with just the piano, bass, and drums playing for a few seconds before the saxophone comes in. When the sax begins to play, he plays a very nice, catchy phrase. I feel that this saxophone solo had a very nice range of pitches in it. Throughout some of the song, the bass, piano, and drums are all playing the same thing which very little drums, but the sax player, Paul Desmond, improvises…

with wide eyes. The saxophone is the star of this piece as it is the most clearly and loudly heard instrument out of the five being played together. This helps to balance it out from the sound of the four drums being pounded on. By the conclusion of their composition people are almost giving them a standing ovation to congratulate them on their excellent performance. In the final work titled On The Bus by Ryan Mcguillicuddy, it comprises of professors: Matt Taylor (saxophone), Nathan Dishman…

Synthesis Essay: David Ake analysing Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman was a jazz saxophone player who started his career in the 1950s by defying cultural, and musical standards. David Ake, composer, performer, and musicologist, analysed how Ornette Coleman created dramatic change in the jazz realm by defying the bebop era standards. Ake brings up many points of the standards that Coleman defied, such as: jazz virtuosity and masculinity, jazz performance and sex, and cultural perceptions of…