Saxophone

become a leader in order to succeed in each of these groups. As a band member, I am one of the senior saxophones, and therefore am responsible for guiding the underclassmen and juniors. At summer rehearsals, camps, and practices, I have to teach our warm up routines, stand music, and marching techniques to the incoming class, and be a role model for the…

I want to make you tell the saxophones to stop playing so loud. For the entire band, I want a better matching of style from section to section because everyone has the capability to play the music and the dynamics, but there is a dissonance of musical interpretation and style. Socially…

By the 1940s, most of the jazz music scene was Swing Jazz, it was classically structured harmonies, commercialized big bands and it had limited room for improvisation; most of the bands at the time were limited in uniqueness. Such a borderline bland music scene proved fertile ground for Bebop, but what started as a musical form unknown, or at least not meant to be known, by the public, played in afterhours of nightclubs, was revolutionized by the alto-sax player, Charlie Parker. Despite his…

At 7:30 in the evening on Tuesday, October 4th, the Northern Michigan University music department’s Jazz band held a concert at Reynolds Recital Hall on campus. The music was surprisingly quite varied compared to what I had expected and the musicians were clearly talented. The entire performance was very impressive and it was neat to see fellow students performing and displaying such skill. Ultimately, I was glad to have attended the concert, despite the fact that I don’t particularly enjoy jazz…

Attention. This instrument is called an alto saxophone. Can you say it with me? Alto- Sax-O-Phone. Pretty neat huh!?”. Pretty neat indeed I thought. Pretty neat indeed. My family has been strongly influenced by music. Almost everyone on my fathers side plays at least one musical instrument, whether it be the drums, guitar, or piano, there is usually some form of sound constantly flowing into everyone’s ear drums. Once I decided on playing the alto saxophone, everyone was just as enthusiastic…

The patients in the music group were allowed to choose to listened to 5 or 6 musical pieces of very different styles including relaxing, cheerful, lively pieces, pop, classical, film scores, folk, and jazz played with the saxophone for about 30 minutes. At the end of the 30-minute live music performance, the patient returned to his room in hospital. Part 2 (Physiological parameters: systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, pulse rate, glycemia, and oxygen saturation…

jazz, to jazz-pop and in 2002, Gato discharged his 50th studio collection. He initially took up music with the clarinet, at age 12, subsequent to hearing Charlie Parker's Now's the Time. Gato Barbieri started his expert music life playing the alto saxophone with piano player Lalo Schifrin in Argentina amid the 1950s. While in Lalo's band, Gato would find the opportunity to play appears with some of jazz's greats, as Coleman Hawkins and Dizzy Gillespie. In 1962, Gato moved to Italy, the country…

song is actually the hardest one for me to distinguish all those instruments with each other. “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is from the Album Ah Um released in May 1, 1959, and it’s clearly is a 12-bar blues. The instruments are including Trombone, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, and Percussion. Besides of Charles Mingus, the artists are including Booker Ervin, Horace Parlan, John Handy, and Dannie Richmond. In my opinion, the tempo of “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is fast, and when I’m listening to this song, I…

What a great show from the veteran super group The Cookers. They presented their magnificent repertoire in two sets at the Nublu Jazz Festival. The band comprises an inflammatory frontline composed of Billy Harper on tenor saxophone, Donald Harrison on alto saxophone, and trumpeters Eddie Henderson and David Weiss. The respectful rhythm section brings us George Cables on piano, Cecil McBee on bass, and Billy Hart on drums. For tonight’s concert, pianist David Bryant, 33, replaced the…

Miles Davis recorded this song in his album Milestones, and includes great artists such as Cannonball Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on double bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Miles Davis is one of the most influential trumpeters in all of jazz history and took multiple musical directions during his five-decade music career…