Trombone

The trumpet screams out, colliding with the steady cymbals of percussion and with that rolls the great roars of the trombone. Out walks a short haired blonde, barely wearing anything. The bar is filled with cigarette smoke and the sweet scent of scotch on the rocks. Suddenly, the woman singer’s voice throws a note or two down the spine. She’s telling a woeful story of her dead lover that beat her. Dim lights and half naked dancers surround her presence, all given to guests in downtown Chicago.…

instrumental in creating the Eastside sound, before that the latino community primarily listened to race music. Thee Midniters members were: Willie Garcia; Lead Vocal, Greg Esparza: Vocals, Jimmy Espinoza: Bass, Larry Rendon; Saxophone, Romeo Prado; Trombone, Bobby Loya; Trumphet, George Dominguez; Lead Guitar, Roy Marques: Rhythm Guitar. The music of Thee Midniters uses the arrangement that is familiar to popular music: intro, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, pre-chorus, and a hook. The amount of…

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.…

This report summarizes a concert performed at the Lincoln Center in New York in March 2016 by a Dixieland band “The Gotham Jazzmen”. This report will highlight the origin of the genre and the band, the characteristic features of Dixieland, The contribution of “Gothan Jazzzmen” to the genre, and an overview of the concert. When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It…

“One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife,” quoted by Charles Ives. Music played a significant role Ives’ family from generations to generations which were carried down to Charles. The family oriented American composer, Charles Edward Ives (also known as Charlie) was born on October 20th, 1874 at Danbury, Connecticut to George Ives and Mary Parmelee. He spent most of his childhood with his father…

costumes. Another music type and dance is Diablada, which means devil in Spanish. This is probably the most famous of all Bolivian dances, Bolivians musical groups play it during the Carnaval de Oruro and their festivals, played by flutes, trumpets, trombone, cymbals, and other instruments. Tinku is one of the most recognized Bolivian music types. Tinku is a festival in Bolivia where people beat each other for two or three days straight. This is a ceremonial war rhythm played when disagreements…

I attended the American Landscapes performed by Oklahoma State University Symphony Orchestra and Dr. Thomas Dickey conducted the orchestra. The concert was held at the Serentean Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. At the concert, I was an amateur, listener to this type of music. I had never witnessed a live performance of this musical style before. I would consider myself to be a passive listener. I listened to the performance with…

The fifties music had a great selection of music, artist and genres. These many genres included new ones like rock and roll to classics like country. The fifties had great artists such as the King of pop, Elvis Presley, and Patti Page. This decade also had many popular song that were listened to such as “Tennessee Waltz.” The fifties had many different genres of music. It ranged from rock and roll to folk music. Rock and roll was a genre of music people listened to. Originating in 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.…

Ragtime • Syncopated rhythms (marches, waltzes, other classic rhythms…) o Tommy Turpin (piano) Harlem Rag → the first Ragtime musical composition • 1900’s – Classic Jazz o Small musical ensemble, brass • Instruments from confederate war • Clarinet, trombone, tuba, saxophone, cornet, banjo, bass, guitar, drums • Melodies were improved through improvisation • Combination…