Tenor saxophone

Unlike the Language we learn in school, music is a special type of language that can be use as a type of communication tool. Jazz is origin from African American and its main characteristics are swing and syncopation, improvisation, distinctive voices bent notes and modes. I’ve watched an amazing concert for the Jazz term paper. The title of the Live Jazz Concert is “Brian Culbertson feat Michael Lington” As the Piano and the Trombone player, Brian Culbertson is one of the main performer that…

The song “Flamenco Sketches” by the Miles Davis Sextet has the cool jazz sound with the modal jazz style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist…

Offenbach. The jazz band includes Joe Zawinul on keyboards, Wayne Shorter on saxophones, Jaco Pastorious on electric bass, and Peter Erskine on drums. The group performed songs such as “Black Market”, “Waterfall”, “Teen Town”, “Birdland”, and many more. The concert opens with the song ‘Black Market”. The song begins with Joe Zawinul establishing a melody on the synthesizer while the drums and bass set a groovy beat. The tenor saxophone makes an appearance at the scene. Throughout the song,…

Emergent tenor saxophonist based in New York, Paul Jones, exhibits higher levels of matureness and a willingness for originality in his incredible new album, Clean, a considerable step ahead since the release of his full-length debut album, Short Stories, recorded in 2014 with his reliable sextet. The band members are maintained here with the exception of pianist Sullivan Fortner, who gave its place to Glenn Zaleski. The remaining artists, all young and powerfully talented, are Alex LoRe on alto…

The saxophone proved to gain acceptance when it came to America. Oddly enough, a woman by the name Elise Boyer Hall (1853-1924) was the first to perform on and let the United States know how truly incredible the saxophone is. She began learning the saxophone while she was recovering from typhoid fever. She commissioned many solo works from world renowned composer that had written for this new instrument. A few of these composers include Richard Strauss, Claude Debussy and Georges Bizet.…

Argentinian tenor saxophonist, Gato Barbieri, has been engaging jazz fans for over 50 years. Gato Barbieri is Spanish for "Barbieri the feline"; his genuine name is Leandro Barbieri. Gato's vocation has crossed from free jazz to Latin 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…

Walters MUS 110 Drew Hays 10 April 15 Album Analysis: Saxophone Colossus According to the Webster Dictionary, Colossus is defined as something that is gigantic or immense, which is also accurate when describing Sonny Rollins’ contributions to the jazz world. Sonny Rollins, himself, was knowns as the “Saxophone Colossus” back in 1956, and has been compared to Coleman Hawkins with his strong, intense notes combined with lyrical freedom and genius. Saxophone Colossus, recorded in June of 1956, and…

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…

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…

lower of the bands in high school. Halfway through freshman year, I switched to playing the tenor saxophone. I switched a couple different reasons, one being that I had a better chance of moving up to the higher band since there were less tenors. The second reason was because I wasn’t the only girl saxophone anymore. I had been the only girl since fifth grade so this was a huge change for me. My tenor has been my baby every since. It is a grey color with grey rocks for keys. At the end of…