Saxophone

The House on Orange Road We didn’t always live in the house on Orange Road. Before that, we lived on Gibbs with a backyard always full of life, before that on Catherine Street, apartment #2, which was like heaven on earth squashed in a 40 by 80-foot apartment. Before that, we lived on Main Street in a smaller apartment, which was the exact opposite, and before that I was not born yet. You could say I moved around a lot in 15 years, but all of our focus while moving around was a 3-acre lot, next…

The Life of Triplets Did you know that there are around 8,000 natural pregnancies that result in triplets? Triplets are created when three separate eggs are fertilized by three different sperms. Around 90% of triplets are born premature or have low birth rate. The standard birth weight for triplets are 4lbs. The life of triplets will be different from anything you’ve known before. She never knew she would be expecting triplets. Until the doctor said there was a strong heartbeat. So the doctor…

Every morning it’s always the blaring of trumpet horns and the pounding of drums ringing in your ears. There’s the shrilly yet beautiful sounds of flutes and the smooth noise coming from saxophones. Every morning it’s always music and noise in the band room, and that’s what I love about it. The band room, one of the most well known room’s in the entire school. You can always hear music coming from there at any part of the day. The people in the band community are always up for playing a tune…

series performed in large arenas like the Barkley Center. The song itself that is described to have an up-tempo would be Problem. The melody of this song is described to be a dance-pop and R&B sound, including instruments like trumpets, drums, and saxophone loops. The song itself is about liking another individual, but this particular individual is causing her problems, therefore it would be easier for her to forget him, or not like him at all, for it to be one less problem in her life. The song…

Bastian has grown and developed in a normal fashion. He no longer is mean to other and is not a leader like before. He is more independent and prefers to do things on his own. He is smart and enjoys school. Bastian has an interest in science and does very well in it. He also plays sports and plays with his sister. Activities Bastian is a very active person. He is always running around and enjoys to learn. He loves science so I signed him up for science camps that were offered at the local…

The Ruth Page Center Of the Arts brought Broadway to Chicago as the Porchlight productions presented the musical Merrily We Roll Along, with book by George Furth, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. This rendition was beautifully directed by Michael Weber, musically directed by Aaron Behnam and the musical staging was done by Christopher Pazdernik. This story about the talented composer Franklin Shephard, based on the 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, leaves the audience…

Chick Corea is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Chick Corea received the privilege to be part of the electric jazz fusion movement back in the 1960’s along side Miles Davis. From 1941 until today Chick has recorded a total of eighty-eight albums alongside some of the greatest musicians of his time. Chick Corea has become a master of his craft being nominated sixty-three Grammy Awards, and out of which he has won twenty-two. Out of his eighty-eight albums he’s…

The quote above helps capture one of the key messages within, Sherman Alexie’s, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Forbes tells how acknowledging stereotypes as truth distorts our image of races, as opposed to intimately getting to know someone. In the story, main character Arnold Spirit Junior discerns individuals he meets through stereotypes, and until he becomes more comfortable with them. This theme of racist and classist stereotypes overshadow the complexity of one’s character…

slowly mutated into his own sound. The 5th Beatle, George Martin influenced King by playing his guitar with the rest to the Beatles's. Influenced by Lester Young to play and sing differently, but instead of playing the guitar he plays the tenor saxophone (McGee, 2005). Riley King learned from a few different blues, and jazz musicians, a few are T-Bone Walker, Charli Christian, and Django Reinhardt. B.B. immensely changed the vibration of Duke Ellington, and Count Basie, by using the…

The concert that I viewed was Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 2004 on recorded and posted on YouTube. The title of the concert is called "Out here to swing!" performed by the incredibly talented Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra, including the director of Jazz at the Lincoln Jazz Center, Wynton Marsalis. The combination of all the musicians form what is called a Jazz Orchestra, which is a large jazz band with improvised soloist within the group of musicians.…