Drummer/composer Brian (Shankar) Adler brings out another EP entitled Radioactive Landscapes, following up last year’s fusion doublet, Binary and Mysteries Of The Deep. This work comprises three tunes, each of them lasting around five minutes. To shape it, Adler reunited his quintet composed of vibraphonist Matt Moran, guitarist Jonathan Goldberger, pianist Santiago Leibson, and bassist Rob Jost. “Gowanus 40” kicks in by spreading a scent of mystery before setting foot in a groove cohesively lay down by Jost and Adler. Leibson and Moran infuse great part of the harmony and melody while Goldberger fills with stringed texture. The generated funk-rock pulse suffers occasional disruptions and variations, and Goldberger’s final breakthrough wakes
There was a vocal recital on October 19th, 2017 at 7:30PM, held at the Performance Hall in Mountain View College. Alex Longnecker, tenor vocalist and Imre Patkai, (pianist) played a series of homophonic textured songs, some being sung in German and others in English. The three selected songs I will be writing about are, The Lincolnshire Poacher, The Plough Boy, and Im Wunderschonen Month Mai. This performance played a total of 24 pieces, composed by 4 composers, including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ernest Chausson, Benjamin Britten, and Robert Schumann. The first song I will be writing about is The Lincolnshire Poacher.
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Philip Auslander’s book “Performing Glam Rock” talks about a type of music that until this class, I have not heard much about. When I think Glam Rock I think of artists like Prince and Kiss, ...
The concert is performed by the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The video of this concert is 90 minutes in length. The concert was an ensemble of various Dave Brubeck arrangements utilizing various jazz techniques and styles with mainly the following instruments: bass, piano, trumpet, trombone, tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, flute, piccolo, baritone sax, drum, and tambourine. The performance included these 15 pieces: “Unsquare Dance”, “Three to Get Ready”, “The Duke”, “Cassandra”, “Strange Meadowlark”, “Who Will Take Care of Me?”, “It’s a Raggy Waltz”, “Tokyo Traffic”, “Take Five”, “Lost Waltz”, “Upstage Rhumba”, “In Your Own Sweet Way”, “Fast Life”, “Bluette”, and “Blue Rondo a la Turk”. The performance highlights the versatile, influential and extraordinary life’s work of Dave Brubeck.
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The music, which was composed and conducted by Thomas Newman also includes orchestrations by Thomas Pasatieri. Featured musical soloists include George Doering, Michael Fisher, Rick Cox, Sid Paige, Steve Kujala, Jon Clarke, George Budd, and Bill Bernstein.
“West End Blues” begins with a 12-second trumpet solo that displayed Armstrong’s wonderful range and demonstrated the syncopated styling unique
... began the piece, and the beat of the drum was frequent. After the introduction, the rest of the musicians joined. The pianist also had a solo part with the companion of the drum. The pace of the song was moderately fast, and the song ended with a climax.
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The Fusion of Acid Jazz and Funk: A Critical Musical Analysis of Jamiroquai’s "Emergency On Planet Earth"
This chart draws its inspiration from the chord changes of Benny Golson’s “Killer Joe” and the feel/harmonic ideas from Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon.” Written in a fast 4/4 tempo, rather than a slow double-time feel tempo. This allows the rhythms to be more easily read by young musicians. The drums play a funk half-time eighth-note feel, which provides the underlying funk feel to the chart.
The fifth song was a ballad called “Last Night When We Were Young.” This song had a relaxing and romantic sound. It had a steady and constant tempo. The bassist also used the pizzicato technique during his solo in this piece.
The group gets right down to business as they hail one of their most profound influences on the album’s second track, an infective tune titled “Mystery Babylon,” which is a brilliant retelling of Israel Vibration’s 1995 single “Rudeboy Shufflin’.” While the brilliance of Albert “Apple Gabriel” Craig’s sure-shot at 90’s reggae slackness (and a veiled warning shot to former Vibes producer Tommy Cowan) was its gentle tone, the strength of “Mystery Babylon” is in its unabashed, no-nonsense directness. “Mystery Babylon,” which features former Roots Radics and Soul Syndicate drummer Carlton “Santa” Davis, Maad T-Ray and E.N. Young of Tribal Seeds, is one of the highlights of the album and a well-deserved shout to one of Jamaica’s greatest vocal