Born in California and raised in New Jersey‚ Alex Wintz is an emergent young guitarist whose musical approach has been requested for ambitious projects led by Etienne Charles‚ Nick Finzer‚ Ben Williams‚ and Lucas Pino. With them‚ Wintz has developed a solid maturity that is now passed to Life Cycle‚ his debut album as a leader to be released soon on Culture Shock Music. The album consists of a set of nine tunes‚ seven originals and two jazz standards‚ outfitted with diverse colors and played in different
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Music is a spectacular commodity that is often overlooked within our everyday life. We listen to music when we’re sad‚ angry‚ happy and everything in-between. Jazz is one of the few genre’s desirable to everyone despite the mood or environment and has remained so for decades while other genre’s fade over time. But what exactly is Jazz? Most genres of music have distinct sounds‚ rhythms‚ and overall feel to them. It’d almost be impossible to mistake rock for gospel or hip-hop for classical. Each
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Born in Washington D.C. on April 29‚ 1899‚ Duke Ellington was an American composer‚ pianist‚ and bandleader who gained fame by performing with his orchestra both in the Cotton Club in Harlem and in Europe. Regarded as a major figure in the development of jazz‚ Ellington identified his music as American music and adopted the phrase of his colleague Billy Strayhorn “beyond category” as a principle. Ellington started taking piano lessons locally at the age of seven and his mother insisted that he be
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Music is an intrapersonal‚ adaptive‚ global‚ and ever evolving form of art. Considering that music is adaptive‚ it is a reflection of cultural‚ political‚ and social events of a time period. Contemporary music compares to vintage music by virtue of derivation. In the instance that American artists and genres derive from earlier forms of European music‚ there are several similarities yet stark differences that aid in the progression of layers and depth in musical performance. In efforts to illustrate
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I have selected Branford Marsalis‚ a saxophonist‚ as my modern contemporary jazz artist. Initially‚ I chose him because his name sounded familiar and I wanted to choose an artist from the list of saxophonists. Moreover‚ the content of his discography was fascinating by its inclusion of several jazz albums with the Branford Marsalis Quartet as well as other collaborative projects and a solo project. Among the list was the album‚ Music Redeems‚ with performances by The Marsalis Family‚ is a collaboration
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Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko already gave us enough reasons to trust his idiosyncratic music. Deeply associated with the ECM Records‚ Stanko‚ whose sonorous creativity is almost tactful‚ has one foot on the adventurous modern creative jazz and the other on a relaxing‚ sometimes-cerebral post-bop. His Polish quartet‚ which included the pianist Marcin Wasliewski‚ was active from 2002 to 2006‚ being responsible for great albums such as The Soul of Things‚ Suspended Nights‚ and Lontana. In 2013‚ Stanko
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John Coltrane To the public he is known just as another jazz musician but for those with a more in depth music appreciation he remains one of the most significant saxophonists in jazz history. John “Trane” Coltrane’s impact on the music world was quite considerable. By revolutionizing music with his own techniques Coltrane changed jazz music forever. Coltrane was a American jazz saxophonist‚ composer‚ bandleader‚ and iconic figure of the twentieth century. As a jazz singer and jazz enthusiast myself
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Duke Ellington definitely stands in my mind as one of the more important and productive musicians of this century. One of the first black band leaders‚ and one of the most innovative‚ the Duke wrote music of all types and styles from solo jazz piano pieces to 16 piece pop songs to symphony orchestra pieces. His wide range of composing styles is seen in his collaborations with prominent performers‚ two of which are John Coltrane and Frank Sinatra. He was born in 1899 in Washington‚ D.C.‚ and came
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Utah State Big Bands presented a tribute to Pepper Adams on Wednesday‚ April 5th at the Performance Hall with two groups performing we were sure in for a wonderful evening full of Jazz. The first group‚ the Jazz Ensembles‚ was led by Greg Wheeler. The first piece was “Lost Mind” the stand out of this piece was the Alto Saxophonist‚ Kyle Merrill. He stood out and grabbed my attention more so than the other soloist during this piece. His solo had a rich sound‚ along with a smooth and swingy rhythm
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In the 1980s‚ Cassandra Wilson was one of the most ingenious‚ original‚ and enthralling musicians working in the progressively difficult-to-expound world of jazz. Cassandra Wilson won two Grammy awards; One for her album New Moon Daughter in 1996‚ and one in 2010 for her song Loverly. The American jazz musician and Grammy award winner released an album in the year of 1999 called Traveling Miles. Traveling Miles is purportedly Cassandra’s salute to Miles Davis‚ who was a well respected American jazz
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