
The Daytime festivities of this week’s Jazz festival, which take part with local jazz performers/bands. It's part of what takes place within this entire week. There is an ever growing area within the music world here and yet at the same time - there are many which just do it for enjoyment.
From Sunday, this was one of many bands, which are local - yet they are well accomplished within this area of Jazz.
By the end of the 1940s, the nervous energy and tension of bebop was replaced with a tendency towards calm and smoothness, with the sounds of cool jazz, which favored long, linear melodic lines. It emerged in New York City, because of the mixture of the styles of predominantly white jazz musicians and black bebop musicians, and it dominated jazz in the first half of the 1950s. The starting point were a series of singles on Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950 led by acclaimed trumpeter Miles Davis, really created what we know today as being Cool Jazz.
Cool jazz later became strongly identified with the West Coast jazz scene. Yet it also came well into being within Europe. Yet the influence stretches from an array of Jazz modals but most of all it's a cool Jazz of which renders the old and new within a Jazzy manner.
Jazz has always been predominantly influence. However, if you’re within music you feel the music rather than pay too much attention to this history of where it came from, as it’s just Jazzy.
It's as all music is a manner of a free flow coupled with what I have always thought of as a bass guitar coupled with the rhythm of the drums.
Jazz has never been intense it's been smooth from it's very beginnings. Jazz for myself is truly a render of instruments that if you will lead into some sort of song. I often thought of Ray Charles as being one within Jazz but that was more within what is known as the Blues.
Yet again, music is the feed that renders expression.
I am partial to smooth jazz
ReplyDeleteSame here Rodney. I love the freelance style of it all.
ReplyDeleteVery cool indeed!!
ReplyDeleteMy audio feed is not all that great but - so be it Suzy.
ReplyDeleteI've had friends that when I speak of 'progressive jazz' their eyes glaze over....lol....(bet, to be fair to them, mine glaze over with 'dixieland' jazz)
ReplyDeleteThey actually let you up on the stage with them! That is so neat to be up there with everyone watching you do a taping.
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing as great as a live concert in the park. How did you managed to go in there, Jack ...
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