Smooth jazz

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,…

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…

On Wednesday, September 20th at 7pm, I attended a music jazz concert at Las Hadas in Reseda, CA. It was inside of a vintage mexican restaurant, though to me it kind of looked like a lounge. In the audience, a few people were dressed in formal attire but majority of people were dressed in casual attire. While the band would play, couples would get up spontaneously to dance. On the other hand, the instrumentalist were set up like an orchestra but located in the direct center of the restaurant with…

American is an amalgam of American folk music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influences. Americana as a radio format developed during the 1990s as a reaction to the highly polished sound that defined the mainstream music of that decade. The AMA grew out of the format as an effort to bring all…

These are three are the famous musicians in Mississippi as a child I heard my parents speak about and still can remember some of the music being played by a few. They seem to be household names and more places than St. Louis. These three people are BB King, Muddy Waters and Bessie Smith. All from the state of Mississippi. BB King, is still playing the blues even though he’s past the age of 87. His birth given name is Riley B. King. In 1949 he began to be a well know musician, although he got…

What is “blues,” really? It is a genre, yes, but some could argue that it was more of a movement, a feeling. The “sound” of blues varies vastly, changing from person to person and from era to era, as do all genres. Though, in comparison, it could be said that blues might be one of the most multi-faceted genres we’ve had to date. This could have something to do with its incipient nature of self-expression, having deep roots in African-American work songs, and spirituals. Essentially, the blues is…

Sammy Goldstein is a singer and piano comedy actor from Paris Tennessee. The information about when he was born and when he lived in Paris seemed to be removed from Google’s indexing. Maybe he doesn’t want people to know his personal information. When he was 20 years old, he moved to Los Angeles and became a singer/pianist at a piano bar.He did this to try to support his acting career. However, he found a second career that he found had great success in. Over the next few years he worked around…

and he adopted a three year old boy named Clarence. Clarence was mentally disabled and lived with Armstrong his whole life. While all of this was going on he was also becoming a very popular jazz player throughout New Orleans. Louis Armstrong later moved to Chicago to join Oliver Kings band called the Creole Jazz Band. On April 5, 1923 he got his first solo record deal where he played the song “Chimes Blues.”…