Tenor saxophone

For my own virtual jazz band, I wanted to try and pick jazz musicians who could mend well with a dance or a swing band. Max Roach on drums, Charles Mingus on bass, Benny Goodman on clarinet, Lester Young on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderly on alto sax, Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton on trombone, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway as singers, and Duke Ellington on piano and as the bandleader. The group would have the style of early 20th century dance bands and do a live…

Research Project A comparison of “Koko” and “So What” “Koko” as well as “So What” are two of the most influential and famous pieces pertaining to Jazz. With “Koko” being composed and performed by Charlie “Bird” Parker and “So What” being composed and performed by Miles Davis. These two musicians are no doubt heavily involved in the development of jazz and are two of the most renowned musicians in the world. “Koko” was composed in the early 1940’s, where as “So What” was composed in the late…

On December 12/03/2017, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra hosted a unique and spectacular jazz concert at the Dr. Philips Center in Orlando Florida. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis spreads holiday cheer on its national Big Band Holidays tour. With soulful renditions of holiday classics, playful improvisation, and entertaining storytelling, they bring out the magic in such favorites as Count Basie’s “Jingle Bells,” “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” and Billie…

On August 27th, 1909, in Woodville, Mississippi, one of the three tenor saxophone giants was born, Lester Young, also known as the ‘Prez’ or the ‘Pres’ (Ron T). Along with Ben Webster and most notably, Coleman Hawkins, he culminated his own style of intricate swing and paved the road to bebop. Folks like Charlie Parker and Sonny Rollins had all of his solos memorized in every key, by heart. He was the father of every style of jazz that followed. In the 20’s and 30’s, jazz was the music of dance.…

piccolo. The trombone later joined with a variety of bells, and tones. The bands now had 4 different parts of brass. A very important influence in the late 1800’s were the saxophones. They came in different ways, mostly soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sax. The bands of the late 1800’s had a wide range of use for saxophones. Bands in the U.S at the time were mostly military music, unlike Europe, at the time, the U.S had a full band. This was because of the increase of instruction to the music…

crescendo peak at measure 46 was undoubtedly noticeable as the entire force of the band came together confidently, and the multi-melody at measure 66 ensured a good blend of three melodies and a baseline. The trumpets, wind instruments and the tenor saxophones’ sounds were detectable, and in between the last two measures, no gaps could be heard at all, which was…

found his true passion for music. Focusing on his music and studies and keeping his priorities in check, James was extremely successful. His musical training was excellent, for he played the tenor saxophone and trombone. “… ,but bow I kept away from the hang-out crowd and dealt with my music, focusing on tenor sax and trombone, which I picked up in order to play in the marching band.” (Pg. 183) His musical talents took him to Europe, where he played with the American Youth Jazz Band. The trip…

they 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…

It uses a single-reed mouthpiece much like the clarinet. The saxophone (“sax” for short) was invented in 1846 by Adolphe Sax to try to bridge the gap between brass and woodwind instruments. It is more powerful than most woodwinds, and more versatile than most brass instruments. The saxophone is used extensively in jazz. There is also chamber and symphonic music written for sax, though it is less common. Brass instruments…

I would place either a saxophone (soprano/alto/tenor/baritone) or an electric keyboard because those are the instruments that I can play. I chose to put an instrument in the time capsule because knowing how innovative mankind is, we will somehow invent a device that can be played and make…