Reflection Of A Trip To A Jazz Concert At Grace Place

I went to a Jazz ensemble that was held at Grace Place. The band didn’t have a name but the students were from the jazz and contemporary music studies program from Roosevelt University. The concert was held on the second floor of a church, which wasn’t a good idea because another band was playing at the first floor and it was hard to tune them out because they were loud.

The group played about 7 different songs and within each group were different people. 6 out of the 7 songs were previously written but one of the students play a song that he wrote. All of the performances had three musical elements in common, call and response, swing and improvisations.

The first song played was called “the girl from Ipanema” by Antonio Carlos. This group had three members, a bass player, piano and a saxophone player. All three instruments playing together sounded horrible but sounded more pleasant as a solo. The instrument together had a rough texture and a fast tempo. I didn’t feel any rhythm in the song but sounded more improvised. In the beginning, the instruments was polyphonic then turned into a solo. The dynamics was very high throughout the songs. I felt that the bass player did a horrible job because at the plucking the strings, he would hit the side of the side of the bass, which made unpleasant sound. Overall, the song is a nice song,

This song was performed by a larger band and had more instrument. My overall this song some performed horribly together. The band wasn’t working together, each instrument was trying to override the next and made it all dissonant. Most of the instruments sounded improvised. The lead voices was only the good part of this performance. She has an opera voice and it’s very unique. She’s a mezzo but tried singing falsetto, which didn’t end well. Her timber went from bright and clear to flat and dull. She was too close to the micro phone so I heard her every time she took a deep