Trombone

played several jazz standards and modern favorites. The Jazz Lab band started out the night with five big band pieces. The instrumentation of the Jazz Lab band was standard for a big band; it included about four of each horn (saxophone, trumpet, and trombone), an upright bass, a piano, and a drumset. The group played several big band standards like Take the A-Train, the famous song originally played by Duke Ellington’s big band and sung by Ella Fitzgerald. Since there were no vocalists in…

allowed any black into his band, as long as they met his extremely high instrumental standards on their instruments. But if they did, it did not matter if they were black or white. Once, people threatened his team and with “nothing more than a lethal trombone, Tommy singlehandedly scared off five angry racists armed with baseball bats” (Larsen 2). Tommy Dorsey was fearless a fearless man. Which gave him the courage to do a lot for his musicians he “would [even] fight for minorities’ rights to…

class to take at my school and it had to be done to pass. As the class went on and I was playing my trombone, my beginning instrument, I had noticed that this was something I was superior at and enjoyed doing. I stayed with the program and wanted to try out to play the tube the next year. My challenge was my first All-District audition, but the problem was I signed up when I was still playing trombone and was to audition on tuba.…

Educational Autobiography Education before college was a real rollercoaster for me. First I went to an elementary school in a suburb of D.C.. Not much stood out to me but I enjoyed playing sports and hanging out with my friends. Had an adjunct math teacher learning math that was way too hard for a 10 year old and that ruined math for me for a couple years but eventually I bounced back. After what I would call a pretty standard public elementary schooling I moved onto middle school. In…

The trombones open up with vigor and power, the piano and bass discreetly accompanies them while the beat of the drums, conga and Guiro in the background makes everything flow to give rhythm and soul to this piece of Latin music I know as Salsa. As the intro makes its conclusion the trombones and drums act simultaneously as a heartbeat skipping a beat, giving the effect of a slight pause right before Hector Laveo “El Cantante” sings his first words. Hector with his high, pure and distinguished…

Ensemble II is directed by Jerry Tolson. The assistant conductors are Arabo Bey and Jake Daniels. On the saxophones there were Adam McIntyre on alto, Davis Hale on Alto, Jake Daniels on tenor, Nolan Aud on tenor, and Jeff Endly on baritone. Playing trombone was Arabo Bey, Billy Engelman,…

Coined as ‘hot’ music, jazz grew out of the colorful city of New Orleans and reached widespread popularity in the 1920’s (Gioioa 30). The African American community was largely responsible for the creation of jazz music, however influences can be seen from many different ethnic groups and communities. A combination of the blues, ragtime, and Tin Pan Alley songs can be heard when listening to jazz and its improvisational style set it apart from preexisting genres. Creole of Color Brass Bands…

All three of these pieces are something that is completely different, but they all have one thing in common, music. The Fanfare for the Common Man and Adagio for Strings is something I have heard a few times here or there, whether it was in movies or even in music class whenever I was younger. The Drum Corps International 2014 was a collaboration of multiple drum corps from all over that displayed the show at a competition. Analyzing each element of these videos really made me realize how much I…

the direct center of the restaurant with the dining booths surrounding them. In front of them was a dance floor for people to dance. Musical instruments that were used in this jazz concert were drums, pianist, bass, guitar, trumpet, saxophone, and trombones. I believe the dominant style of…

Music. Composers included in this concert included Nelson, Sousa, Nielsen, and Flagello. The wind ensemble included a variety of instruments: the flute, oboe, English horn, bassoon, clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, French horn, trombone, bass trombone, tuba, and percussion. The first piece performed was “Rocky Point Holiday” composed by Ron Nelson. The composer used a series of high-energy overtures. The movement consists of a three-part form of fast slow fast. This piece begins…