West Coast jazz

The Brubeck Brothers Quartet was an exceptionally fascinating occasion. My purpose for my statement is that I have never really been to a live jazz performance and it was a new experience for me. My immediate thought upon entry was that the presentation was going be exhausting and long. In spite of the fact that it lasted quite a while it was justified regardless of my while in light of the fact that I really wound up liking the performance. I think the Brubeck Brothers Quartet was amazing and I…

Many people enjoy listening to music. For some, it helps them focus on a certain task, for others it helps distract them from their thoughts and then some people just listen because they want to. No matter what reason we listen to music, most people can agree that it makes us feel something special. That is why I believe that Twenty One Pilots is the best band anyone could listen to because of the amount of emotion they bring in such an upbeat way. Firstly, the band began in 2009 and released…

After going through all the songs in this module, I can see some similarities in all of them. But the only one thing am going to talk about is the repetition in some of the songs in Jazz, Gospel songs, Blues, and Hip-hop. Also, they were songs of war or civil right movement. Let me start with “This Little Light of Mine” in Gospel music. People sang this song and other spirituals song during the Civil Rights Movement as a way of expressing unity as they fought for equal rights and freedom for…

Pierce the Veil is an emo;post hardcore band from San Diego, California. There are 4 members in the band including Vic Fuentes, Mike Fuentes, Jaime Preciado, and Tony Perry. Pierce The Veil is the best Emo band in today's generation. In 2007 they came out with their first album A flair for the dramatic and in 2010 their album Selfish Machines came out. Despite this, their biggest breakthrough was in 2012 with the release of their album Collide with The Sky. It had reached number one on the Top…

Hearing a rhythm or melody and calling it ‘music’ with no further analysis or specificity is perhaps the most vague definition on earth. Music is, in fact, so much more. Not only can music span across all sorts of genres, but these genres can be divided even further and made more specific by looking at the number of musicians performing - that is, the orchestral, ensemble, and solo music. Style, perhaps, fluctuates the most of all aspects of a performance with the size of the group. Large…

On Tuesday November 15 2016, we had our very first concert of the year, our jazz concert which was called Jazz It Up. Many people were impressed not just by the 7th graders, but also varsity voices and us 8th graders. We were all great on our songs, and I especially liked the 7th graders songs. Mrs. Hjelm was amazing as she always is when she directs us and when she is our teacher. As always though a few things needed to change. Our first song was The Star Spangled Banner and we were very…

Into The Great Wide Open Imagine big hills,Hollywood sign, living alone at 18 and going on stage to sing! Eddie in “Into the great wide open” moved to Hollywood. Eddie just graduated high school and moved to Hollywood to pursue is dreams and find a girl. Eddie first got a job and a tattoo and he’s going for his shot to be famous. In the narrative poem “ Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty tells a story of the life of a rising rock star using a shifting tone and is told in a realistic nature.…

Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was a Latin American composer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was born on April 11, 1916 in Buenos Aires and died June 25, 1983 at the age of 67 in Geneva Switzerland. He was half Catalan and half Italian. Ginastera started his composing career when he was only 18 years old and won first place in a contest for the piano. He studied music at the Conservatorio Williams and the National Conservatory, both in Buenos Aires. Ginastera later co-founded the League of…

The concert that I attended was Sac State Jazz Combo with the guest artist “The Kandinsky Effect”, on Tuesday October 13, 2015 at 8:00 pm. in the Capistrano Concert Hall. At the beginning of the concert the Sacramento State Jazz combo played a couple songs. In this group there were many performers with different instruments: Domenic Dalpez (baritone saxophone) , Jesse Crosson (trombone) , Aaron Smith (trumpet) , Randy Sandoli (piano) , Molly Redfield (bass) , Devan Kortan (guitar) , and Cameron…

Very few famous performers nowadays can integrate showmanship with their music. In the 70’s a musical group by the name of Parliament took the music world by storm with their out of this world appearance and their own rendition of Funk music. Parliament was one of the key pieces in the development of funk music and modern music as well. They created what we know as P-Funk today that was a key element of the foundation of Hip-Hop. For my concert report I analyzed Parliament’s 1976 The MotherShip…