Sunday, December 7, 2008
Blog Assignment 2
This is your second blog assignment. What you are going to do is search you tube for a video of someone playing an instrument other than yours and not a video used in the previous blog assignment. Tell me who this person is and why you like or dislike the performance. Take time to really listen to the selection and give comments that are clear and are about the performance.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crfrKqFp0Zg
Greg Pattillo is a one of flautist from Seattle Washington. He is famous for his amazing flute playing accompanied with beatboxing. He is a YouTube legend and his videos have been viewed over 20,000,000 times! Pattillo manages to fuse together many genres of music into his other playing, such as hip-hop, jazz and folk music. His sound has devolped exceptionally as he has grown as a musician, playing all over the world to share his talent.
He has even been mentioned in the New York Times as "the best person in teh world at what he does". He has won an award from Metropolitan Transit Authority's "Music Under New York Award". This award allows him to legally play music in the subways in New York. Now he can play music, earn money, and know that it's legal to play wherever and whenever in New York's transit systems.
I liked his performance because it fascinated me how he was able to control his breath and playing while beatboxing at the same time. It also interested me because I was able to make out the tune (the Super Mario Bros. theme song)so I enjoyed listening to it. I was also in awe of how quickly he was able to play notes and still maintain correct dynamics, tone and pitch. I could not even imagine how difficult it would be to play with that amount of accuracy.
From the grungy streets and subways of the public to the high class concert halls of the elite, Greg Pattillo has a wide variety of background that shows when he plays. His unique beatboxing adds his own personal touch to his playing and helps him grow as a performer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehmTBsmZhmY
Tony Royster is a 23 year old drummer. He started playing the drums when he was 3 and has continued ever since (no duh). He is really good in Latin, Funk, Jazz and Rock styles and has played with famous drummers such as Dennis Chambers, Billy Cobham, Frank Briggs. While playing on stage with these drummers and a few others, Tony is still going to school and is planning to attend the College of North Flordia.
The first thing that I thought when I saw him was wow, he's extremely good. I really enjoyed this because you could really see the emotion in his face. I watched a few of his videos with different kinds of styles, they are all very good. I especially like this one beacause I think that it really showed his emotion and pushed his talent just a little bit further then others would have.
I really like playing percussion and I have always enjoyed watching it and listening to it. This was great...I loved it! It was awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5uPsE7Yr3g
Ronnie Cuber is a well known Latin-Jazz and Hard-Bop Baritone saxophonist. He was born on December 25 1941 in New York City. He started on the tenor sax as a young teen and in 1959 he switched to the Bari. He has played with many gifted artist like; Paul Simon, B.B. King and Eric Clapton. As well as partaking in many recordings, festivals and movie sounds tracks (like his off screen appearance in Across the Universe.) His first appeared at age 18 playing in Marshall Brown's Newport Youth Band at the Newport Jazz Festival. He now lives in Hampton Bays NY.
In this YouTube clip Ronnie Cuber is playing at the Novisad Serbia Jazz Fest. The piece he is playing is Horace Silver's "Filthy McNasty." He is playing the melody but is being accompanied by piano and drums.
The tone Mr.Cuber is able to produce with his Bari-sax is amazingly warm and colorful. He has a real rich vibrating tone that just floats over the harmony and makes you want to dance. The piece sounds very intricate and complicated. The melody has some very hard rhythms that must be vary hard to count and combined with a very fast tempo; this piece is extremely hard. Mr.Cuber changes very quickly from the higher and lower registers with any squeaking or “register changing” and I can only imagine how much practice and time that has taken. He has timed his breathing at appropriate times, and it never once interrupts his playing. Ronnie Cuber is playing lots of slurs, accents and staccatos and it really add another layer of significance to the piece. I really think that Mr.Cuber is an amazing Bari saxophonist and can only imagine how much dedication it must have taken him to reach this level of playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_hxvZ8jhy0
Greg Vaile is a saxophone player. Greg started to play the saxophone at the age of 6, and is still playing. After he graduated, he formed a jazz group, and then started playing with a jazz guitar." Greg Vail has been signed as a Yamaha Performing Artist for eighteen years."He also has a album due to come out in 2008. Greg toured and reocrded with some popular people in jazz and pop.
In this performance; i think that he articulates very well and has a good flow from note to note. He looks like he likes to play, which is always a good thing. There is a few other instruments which ties the piece together and makes it sound okay. Greg is really good at playing the saxophone in this piece, there is so many notes; and it is a quick piece, so it was good to see how i could still hear the dynamics and notes, which i do like about this performance. The articulation was really well presented, you could tell which notes were slurs and what not. The way he moved with the music was intersting to watch.
I think that it would be really hard to play the saxophone because there are so many buttons; but the way Greg played, made it look easy.
This tune is also kinda catchy, and has a good rhythm.
In Conclusion, i liked this performance by Greg Vail, i think it was very flowy and had a good tune and melody.
Music blog assignment 2
Miles Davis is a trumpeter from St. Louis. He was born in 1926 into a well to do family. He became a trumpeter at the early age of 12 when his father gave him a trumpet and arranged for lessons from a local musician. By his late teens Miles was already part of the musical community and had professional playing experience. During his post secondary schooling he switched to Julliard School of Music in New York, in hopes of advancing his career and being able to hook up with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. By doing this he was able to learn from the best and gained the confidence to be the leader of his own band. His popularity just kept on going up and up as he did more and more. He had his own quintet, had a chance to record with Gil Evans and even had a sextet which was known to be his magnum opus or greatest work that impressed even the greatest of trumpeters. Later on he began seriously experimenting with electrical instruments. In 1976 he had to take a 5 year absence due to drug abuse and bad health. He eventually returned in 1981 and made a few more records, but he was out of his prime and most of them were not even heard by some of his hugest fans. It was a sad day in 1991 when Miles Davis died at the age of 65. Thanks to his incredible musical skill he will be remembered forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR5b0Eryr1U&feature=related
In this performance of “So What” by Miles Davis you will see Miles take the lead for the first 2 minutes and 50 seconds and allows the rest of the band to carry through the rest of the piece, up until the last 30 seconds where he takes over once again. During his playing he somehow manages to play what I would rate a difficult piece, at an incredible rate. He is constantly shredding through notes with ease, without a flaw. I cannot even imagine doing something like that in the range he’s playing in on my sax. He manages to keep a steady rhythm and tempo without skipping a beat. His tone is flawless and I can understand how some fans said it was so pristine it almost sounded like the voice of an angel. You can rarely notice when he takes a breath. Over all I give the performance a 9/10 because of the amazing solos, but I took one off because it didn’t really seem like a team effort.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=cRo5whIbau4
This video was taken during a live concert of the rock band Jethro Tull. The lead singer of Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson, was a multi-instrumentist, meaning he was able to play a wide range of instruments. Among these instruments were the harmonica, the guitar, the mandolin and the saxophone. However, he was most well known for playing the flute, and is widely credited as the person who brought the flute to rock music. He taught himself how to play the flute, using a style that includes a lot of "flutter-tounging," singing,humming,and even snorting. This is a video of one of his flute solos.
I really enjoyed this video because it greatly changed the way I viewed the flute. I used to imagine it as an instrument usually used to create soft, beautiful melodies. However, what Anderson plays here is not soft, and definetly not beautiful in the classic sense. I love the energy Anderson brings to the flute, and his skills are quite amazing. Some of his note sequences would bring even the best guitarists down! I also really liked the extra sound effects he adds, whether it's the subtle low breathing, the sharp intakes, or the little piggy snort. It may not be intentional, but I find it adds a lot to the feel of the piece. All in all, I thought that this video proved that any instrument, if in the right hands, can rock out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoJlOf1Cvp4
Sergei Nakariakov was born in Gorky (near the Soviet Union) in 1977. Sergei began to play the piano when he was six years old, but moved on to the trumpet, after a spine injury in 1986 curtailed his piano studies. His repertoire includes not only the entire range of original literature for the trumpet; but is continually expanding into broader territories, including many fascinating transcriptions, while he searches for ever new means of musical expression.
At the very young age of 10 he brought instrument the flugelhorn to relative importance on the concert platform. At this young age he was preforming in concerts hall and in 1988 he earned a diploma in brass competition for adults. In order for him to excel in his music career it was obvious that he had to move so he could have the liberty of travel. He ended up in Israel.
He then started traveling around the world playing as a guest star for special events. His first event was playing at the Schleswig - Holstein Musikfestival. Since then he has appeared in many of the worlds leading centers of music, including the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Lincoln Center in New York, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall in London. Occasionally he will tour around in Japan and North America. He plays as a guest star in many different orchestras around the world.
On Oct. 13. 2002 Sergei Nakariakov received the ECHO Klassik Award on ZDF as instrumentalist of the year from the German Phono-Academy. He is now pursuing his in foreign countries such as South Africa etc.
I particularly love this piece of music. I don't know how he did it but he was playing extremely amazing multi phonics that i couldn't comprehend. He had extremely good articulation and dynamics. I really enjoyed how the accompaniment of the band played fluidly with him. I know for a fact that i can't play trumpet but i can't even do half the stuff he played, on my saxophone. It is so precise and accurate and just plain perfect. I think you got some competition Mr.Stevenson ;)
Overall I through it was a marvelous performance; especially the ending. Also I chose this piece because we played it in class. I wanted to see it resembled ours. I guess not. hahaha
Charlie Parker Jr is a world renowned alto saxophone player and is considered to be one of the most influencial characters in jazz music. Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Charles and Addie Parker. Parker began playing the alto saxophone at age 11 and at age 14 joined his school's band using a rented school instrument. One story is told that Parker was so terrible, he was thrown out of the band. For a period of about three and a half years, Charlie practiced for up to 14 hours a day learning to play flawlessly in all 12 keys(of the also sax). At age 20Charlie decided to move to New York and start a new musical life. In New York, Parker had difficulty finding work at first, but playing with Jay McShann’s band he began to develop a new style of jazz music known as bebop. Within a short while he was the talk of the town and Dizzy Gillespie and other members of the Earl Hines band convinced Hines to hire him. Gillespie and Parker became close friends after a short while. Leaving Hines, the two moved on to Billy Eckstine’s band, where they were able to expand their range of experimentation in jazz music. This was Charlie's big break into the world of modern jazz, or "bebop".
Unfortunately, Parker developed a herion addiction in his late teens. This affected his musical careeer up until his untimely death at the young age of 34. He often had to play on the streets to get money for drugs. He was also sometimes late to performances because of this.
Charlie has played with numerous other extremely famous musicians. Some of these include Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. He has also been in many bands, althought spent his later years as a soloist,and has played in many performances such as at Massey hall and at numerous NYC jazz clubs.
Parker has been noticed as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as a 4 time Grammy hall of Fame Award winner. He has also been inducted into the Jazz at Lincoln Center: Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame and the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame.
The piece Charlie is playing is called "my old flame". This a is a very calm and melow piece. It is played with incredible control and pracision. Parker plays with such accuracy, I can differenciate between all of the slurred and tounged noted(alright, I'm not that good, but he sounds SO fantastic and perfect). He has an amazing ability to play at incredible speeds. Such playing seems impossible to a meer 9th grade music student such as muself. Also, in another video of his, which is even faster, I noticed very minimal hand movement. His playing was extremely upbeat, yet he barely moved. I enjojed this peice a great deal. There wasn't a single squeak. It was very light and crisp. Charlie Parker was an amazing musician who was a great loss to the world of jazz.
Trumpet Rhapsody played by Maynard Ferguson
The talented young child was born in May 4th, 1928. Since he was four years old, he showed great talent in music, by playing the piano and the violin. At the age of thirteen, he was gifted a cornet. He started practicing with the cornet, and at the age of thirteen, he played his cornet at the Canadaian Broadcasting Corporation. This was his first step into the amazing music career he was going to experience.
At the age of 15, he dropped high school to begin his music career. This was a grand success, because in 1949, he was asked to join the Kenton's Orchestra, playing the trumpet.
With his music, Ferguson mostly influenced the stlye of Rock&Roll. However, even musician this great had his last recording, the Blue Note. After recording, he died of kidney and heart failure in August 2006.
I think this performance was amazing (even if I there was no video. Only audio). However, if I watch other ones, I can get amazed at how cheerful and light he is up on stage. He dances around, waves around etc. Well, check this one out too. Birdland, one of the most famous piece of work by Ferguson
Well, I think these are great performances, because he can reach so high on the trumpet, and come back down as soon as he's back up. The trills fascinated me, and also,
his dances are pretty cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GuDExkBmnU
Louis Armstrong is a well known trumpet/cornet player and vocalist. He was born August 4th 1901, and died July 6th 1971(at age 69). The genres he played were Swing, Jazz and Traditional Pop. He played from 1914 to 1971. He played exceptionally well for growing up in a very poor family, as his grandparents were slaves.
He earned a Grammy later in his career, 1964, for Hello Dolly! The category was Best Male vocalist. He also had many more Grammy nominations and inductions into the Grammy Hall of Fame. He has also earned other awards for numerous other songs.
I really enjoy his playing, because every song varies in genre, range of notes, and feelings portrayed throughout the music. For example some songs are Jazz, have a fast tempo and make you feel happy and excited, whereas others are slower and are designed to calm you down. I really enjoy the upbeat ones the best. Louis Armstrong wasn’t just a soloist though; he played with a band called 'Louis Armstrong and his Hot 5'. My favourite piece from him is the song called Hello Dolly. I like the background music, its sounds very jazzy, and I like that. I like the lyrics, but I don’t really like Louis Armstrong's voice. It sounds gravely. But I really enjoy all other aspects of his songs. He was a great musician and still remembered today as a legend.
“Carnival of Venice” performed by tubist Roger Bobo on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJkyi0BKPk
Roger Bobo is a tubist from Los Angeles, he was born in 1938 and is 70 this year. His first instrument was the piano, then he decided to try guitar, switched to trumpet then finally was inspired to do tuba in which he finally knew he had found the right instrument. The piece of music he is performing is called “Carnival of Venice” I chose this because it is relevant, considering we played this piece in class, also because of the way he play’s this piece with many variations from our book, and the difficulty being very high demonstrates his talent on tuba. Mr. Bobo performed this piece with excellence according to me, the accents were played very clearly and variation in note range was very high. I also have no idea how he can play that fast with the amount of air needed for tuba. Overall I really liked this performance and Roger Bobo’s talent perfected it.
For my second blog entry, I chose the saxophone to write on, and playing it is a famous American musician and composer: Ned Rothenberg.
Here is the YouTube link for the piece of music I am reviewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiOcFklfqdY
Born in Boston Massachusetts on September 15, 1956 Ned Rothenberg is known for his work in free music and free improvisation and for his use of extended techniques. For example he has taught himself the ability to play chords on his saxophone. He attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and plays a wide variety of both instruments and styles of music. From the clarinet, to the shakuhachi (a Japanese bamboo flute) Rothenberg can play almost any wind instrument. Not only is he internationally acclaimed for solo performances since 1978 but he also founded the woodwind trio “New Winds”. Today he lives in New York and still performs in concerts.
I don’t think the piece of music I am reviewing today has a name? But it is a jazz piece, and, of course, played on the saxophone. Even though this piece gets very repetitive after a while (and it goes on for 30 minutes!) I still enjoyed it because you never got tired of it. Just trying to follow the complex harmonies kept you occupied. The way he incorporated multiphonics amazed me. He was able to make the instrument sound like it was playing two songs at once, but still interconnected. As well, I also liked his overall tone; it was very clean and didn’t waver. Rothenberg also kept persistent throughout the whole piece. He didn’t lose tempo, or change pitch (accidently) at all. Lastly, I also liked that Rothenberg was able to finger the difficult notes with precision. Overall I really enjoyed this piece of music because it was new, inventive, and had a good beat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF-k4wg70rg&feature=related
Neil Peart is an amazing drummer and is part of the band Rush. Neil was born in Hamilton, Ontario. For his 14th birthday, Neil was bought a drum set, and since then, his collection of drums has increases dramatically. When Neil performs, he sits on a moveable platform surrounded 360 degree's by a massive drum set. Included in the set are: more than 20 assorted types of drums all producing different sounds, orchestra bells (another word for it is glockenspiel), wind chimes, crotales (they're like mini cymbals), a bell tree, triangles, and of course, cowbells.
His performance was amazing. Not only did he have hundreds of percussion instruments, but he knew how to use all of them very well. He has a very good sense of rhythm and he incorporates all of the instruments into his solo. He is also very good with the orchestra bells and the cowbells. I really enjoyed listening to cowbells and his performance. It was done really well and sounded great.
Neil Peart has won countless awards (well, really he won about 46) from a number of magazines, Juno awards, etc. He is an excellent percussionist and it is fun to watch Neil smash away at his drums. I have one word to say about his performance...
More cowbell!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYOsNp4O7AU
Øystein Baadsvik is a tubist from Norway. He started playing tuba at age 15 at his school. He studied under other famous tubists such as Harvey Phillips and Arnold Jacobs. His career has developed after recent posts on Yotube that have gained him a large following.He is also an internationaly reconized performer and has won awards at Concours International d’Exécution Musicale in Geneva. He has released several CDs since his first in 1992. Øystein Baadsvik is also a master at multiphonics and shows that in his most popular performance Fnugg although multiphonics it is not shown as much in the piece I listned to.
In this peice Øystein Baadsvik performs Czardas. I orginaly picked the peice because I've played a version of this song on violin. It sounds very good on tuba as well. It is amazing that he can have so much range on the tuba. I can't even get half the notes on trumpet.
It is a slower peice to begin but gets very fast and has many slurs. It is amazing how smooth his slurs are and how well he can tongue the faster notes. There is a very fast part that is a scale going up and down very fast. In the middle of his solo he makes a show of hitting the very bottom notes of the scale by putting his tuba right on the floor. He is a bit of a showboat but when you're that good I guess you can be.Over all an amazing tuba performance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Mo6L3iGvM
This is famous jazz trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. He was born in a small town outside of Havana, Cuba on November 6th,1949. He became an American citizen in 1999. He currently lives in Miami, Florida.
When you listen to Arturo play, you have to think how fast he is playing these notes. Every pitch he hits is perfect, even on the extremly high ones. I also like how he tries to entertain the crowd as he plays as most instrumentalists have a tough enough time just playing their instrument. I'm not sure how he does it, but he is able to blend in very nicely with the other musicians but still shows that he is the main entertainer. He also plays the dynamics very well. My favourite part is the big ending where he gives every last bit of a breath he has.
Arturo has a list of awards for all his hard work like: four grammy awards, six billboard awards and an emmy award for composing in "For love or country" a HBO movie about himself! He has also been voted as Cuba's best instrumentalists from 1982 to 1990.
He is getting to play with some other pop superstars such as Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys. He has played with other legends such as Dizzie Gillipse, Rod Stewart, Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra, etc. He has performed many times on national television. He played the American national anthem at the orange bowl and has played at performed at the superbowl halftime show with Tony Bennet and Patti LaBelle.
Arturo Sandoval has proven that he can overcome anything like the tough times in Cuba and has inspired many musicians.
I hope you enjoy one of the best trumpet players ever in this song called Rhythm of our world.
Trumpet solo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8pexPNRAU
The instrument I chose to watch on youtube was a trumpet. The soloist was Jonbhorn. I chose to watch the trumpet because I love the way it sounds, when its played well. Jon played so fast and so well, just watching him makes me want to play the trumpet. It must also be hard to memorize each fingering too. My favourite part of his solo, was when he went up and down the scale really fast. I heard that was hard to do, and he mastered that. It takes a trumpet player to judge another trumpet player, but from what I heard I thought was greatly played. It must be hard to play really fast when your playing the trumpet because you sometimes have to make your own pitch cause there's only three keys. Well done Jon well done! :)
BY: SARAH ADAMS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZX5qdIEB0&feature=related
Greg Pattillo (born June 26 1977, Seattle, Washington) is a beatboxing flutist originally from Seattle, but now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Pattillo is recognized all over the world for his famous beatboxing - flute playing skills. The New York Times said that he was "The best at what he does". His performance videos on YouTube, showcasing "beatbox flute," have been viewed more than 20 million times. His Inspector Gadget remix,(the performance that I chose)for instance, as of January 6, 2009, was viewed 16,046,452 times.
Pattillo earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music. His teacher, and mentor, Joshua Smith is also the principal flutist of the Cleveland Orchestra.
After a summer spent as the acting principal flute of Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, Greg moved to San Francisco where he was a founding member of the Collaborative Arts Insurgency and the 16th and Mission Thursday night gathering for performers. It was there that "beatbox flute" materialized in its present state.
In June 2007 Pattillo was awarded the Metropolitan Transit Authority's "Music Under New York" program. This award gave Pattillo the permit to play his mind-blowing music in the subways.
Pattillo was also invited to appear on an episode of Nickelodeon's TV series, iCarly (he is Sam's cousin) and has videos and recordings of his music on iCarly.com. Pattillo can also be seen on an episode of Lily Allen and Friends in the UK, shown on BBC Three.
I loved Greg's version of the "Inspector Gadget" theme song because of the way he seemed to control the music. Greg made it look so easy! The way that he played the actual tune of Inspector Gadget with such precision, while creating his own drum beat to follow, was absolutely amazing! I searched for some other songs performed by Mr. Pattillo and they all seemed equally amazing. One of his live performance shows the faces of the audience members. They all watched Mr. Pattillo in awe, dropped jaws and wide eyes. I was making the same expression as I watched this man create beautiful, unigue, and absolutely fascinating music in his very own way.
This version of the "Inspector Gadget" theme song is one that I am sure to remember for all of my musical career.
-pumpkin dutfield
aka hannah freeman:)
http://www.youtube.com - Archie Shepp saxophone player
Archie Shepp is a great saxophone player. Archie Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24, 1937. He was brought up Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He did not just play saxophone, but also played the clarinet, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone. Archie Shepp played in Latin jazz for a short time until he worked his way up to performing in front of crowds for a living. He played for black freedom. He was very successful and has many fans. Also, he was known for passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which was mainly about the injustices faced by the African race. The video was wonderful and even better when i found out that he played for the African race/ black people. This was a great piece that i watch. The sound was perfect pitch and the melody was great. The sound went from high to low pitch and was right on the note. Archie Shepp is a great player and a true inspiration to many people.
http://www.youtube.com - Archie Shepp saxophone player
Archie Shepp is a great saxophone player. Archie Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24, 1937. He was brought up Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He did not just play saxophone, but also played the clarinet, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone. Archie Shepp played in Latin jazz for a short time until he worked his way up to performing in front of crowds for a living. He played for black freedom. He was very successful and has many fans. Also, he was known for passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which was mainly about the injustices faced by the African race. The video was wonderful and even better when i found out that he played for the African race/ black people. This was a great piece that i watch. The sound was perfect pitch and the melody was great. The sound went from high to low pitch and was right on the note. Archie Shepp is a great player and a true inspiration to many people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjevils2pug
James Galloway was born in Belfast in Northern Ireland, son of James and Ethel Stuart. They were a very musical family. His father played flute and accordian and his mother played paino. His first instruments were a violin, hamonica and a tin whistle. He got his first flute at the age of nine and that is when he started to take music seriously. When he was ten he entered 3 flute solo compititions he won them all! He attended Mountcollyer Secondary School. He became a member of the northern Ierland BBC orchestra. He studied under John Francis and Goffrey Gilbert. Galoway failed to get his degree at the Royal College of Music (in London), because he failed to attend classes. He became a member of several orchestras. Galoway was unsatisfied with orchesras and started a solo career with the help of Michael Emerson. He taught music at Eastman School of Music in Rochester NY. He has 1 platinum and several gold records. He was marryed 3 times his latest wife being Jeanne Galoway.
The song I heard him play sounded very difficult yet he had mastered the tone and rhythm. It is a beautiful piece of music. He makes it seem so effort less moving his fingers so fast. James Galoway is an excellent musician. He strives for prefection and I belive he can reach it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHkRlVK6U4
David Sanborn is an alto saxophone player and a phamous one i might add.
In this performance David is playing a peice called The Dream
This jazz tune has a soft starting with a lower pitch and slowy starts getting higher and gets faster.
The middle part introduces a on chorus. The now has a wider range and goes up and down the scale. But every time he repeats it becomes more mighty and has a more powerful effect.
The ending the melody become mighty. He ends off the chorus with a big solo. The pitch is only high and and moves up the scale very quickly giving this peice a fantastic ending.
I really enjoyed this song. It had a big varitity of the scale David really found a good way to sync his relaxing beginning into the chorus and have a happier prouder melody. I found his solo in the end to absolutly amazing. It stuck with the song.David really had good balance throughout this peice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0os7l1kFCY
Ken Shoults is the Trumpet player I chose. His video is called " 1 man playing 2 trumpets at the same time in harmony".
The video starts out where he's on stage and playing 2 trumpets at the same time but 2 different melodys. After that he starts playing 1 at a time but like he plays one 1 line and the next the next line.
His playing was good, there was no mistakes, but also he chose a difficult song it seemed like as well. I liked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqinRfoBnbc: this is the site that has my musician on it.
I chose my blog assignment subject to ge Arthur Farmer the trumpetist.
Arthus was an American Jazz trumpetist and flugel horn player.
He also played Flumpet.
The son of a steelworker father Arthur began playing from the mid-40's onward.
In the early 1960's Arthur began his own famous trio with the likes of Jim Hall as bassist and Steve Swallow as guitarist. These three men were very succesful and performed beautifully together. They started to be so succesful that they moved to Europe to do recordings there.
Farmer continued his wonderful career extensively in to the 1960's.
My likes and dislikes of this piece are: I was amazed by Arthurs playing because of the way his fingers moved. His hand would move so fast and he kept the right pitch with so much accuracy that i could only believe how hard it would be. Another brilliant part about his playing was that he puffed his cheeks in such a comfortable way that keeping the tone right must have been so tough. I didnt have many dislike in this piece.
From a steelworker father to a kid with a dream and a non-believing family. I think from a vieweres standpoint that Arthur could have been one of the best jazz trumpet players of hi era.
Here's the link to watch Randy Brecker work his wonders with the trumpet; http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=54sXP57S248
Randy Brecker was born in 1945 in Philadelphia. His father was a piano player, so most of his summers were spent in stage-band camps. This is where he got his first few experiences with ensemble playing.
During his teenage years, he would play in local bar bands, usually playing R&B or Funk music.
He attended Indiana University after high school, where he won an award that allowed his university band to tour the Middle East and Asia. In 1966 he moved to New York, where he played for many bands. Finally, in 1968, he recorded his first album as a leader. His skills became noticed and in 1972 he was one of the two most in demand studio musicians.
For some time, Randy played in a band called the "Brecker Brothers". In their time together, they recorded a total of six albums. This only lasted until 1982, when all the musicians in the band went their own ways. Randy continued to play his trumpet with other people, and some solos. He went on to win many Grammie awards. (example-Best Contemporary Jazz Performance) He is an amazing trumpet player who has, and will continue, to accomplish great things.
What I liked about this performance was how he could hit such a variety of notes in such a short amount of time. One second he'd be playing an extremely high note, and then suddenly he would be playing a lower note. Another thing that I found amazing about this performance was his ability to play so many notes so quickly. I wish I could do that!
Randy Brecker is an amazing trumpet player. His ability to play such a difficult combination of notes with an incredible amount of accuracy has helped him with his accomplishments, and will continue in the future.
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