Great Combo Band example essay topic

In this paper, I will review the concert titled "ALL JAZZ", which was held at Weber Music Hall at UMD, on Wednesday, November 12, 2003. This concert held the four combo jazz bands that UMD has. The first band that performed was Combo 4, directed by Dan Eaton. The songs they performed were "Sugar" by Stanley Turrintine and arranged by Linnean; "Budini" by Buddy Montgomery, arr.

By Sickle r; and the last piece they performed was "Red Clay", by Freddie Hubbard. The instruments that this combo had in it were a trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, two guitars, piano, bass, and drums. The first song "Sugar" had a light "Cool Jazz" sound to it and was performed very well. In this song Pat Sunderland, the trumpet player played the flugelhorn. He played some great improvisation on it with his great range. The next song they performed, "Budini", was a great fast Latin style song.

It sounded like a challenging song. The tenor sexist, Mitch Status had a great solo in this song. The last piece, "Red Clay", was also very good. It had a sort of cool jazz sound also. There was some great collective improvisation in it where more than one person was soloing at the same time. They also took turns with the drummer, Robin Rap sys, who played excellent in this piece.

Overall, this combo played great and I would like to here them again. The next combo that performed was Combo 3, directed by Dan Thornton. They performed "Footprints", by Wayne Shorter / arr. Combo 3, "Lover Man" by Davies / Ramirez/Sherman, and "Sunny Side of the Street" by Fields / Mchugh. The instruments in this combo were a trumpet, sax, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. "Footprints", was a very neat funk song.

"Lover Man", was a slower ballad which wasn't quite my taste of music but it was performed well. The last song they performed was "Sunny Side of the street", which had a happy upbeat tempo and was my favorite. The trumpet sounded great with a cup mute during this song. Matt Was mund played the bari-sax and sounded great in harmony with Ben Franke, who played the trumpet.

One thing that made me really like this combo was the facial expressions of the guitarist, Brian Johnson. He made this combo very interesting to watch. Overall, a great combo band also. The third combo was Combo two, directed by Billy Barnard. They played "Doing Something", "Vamp", "The Tuesday-Thursday Squad", and "Dolphin Dance". The instruments in there band were a trumpet, violin, piano, guitar, bass, and drums.

"Doing Something", was a very fast funk style song and had some great improvisation by the keyboardist Pat McNally. This song also featured Bryan Colby on the trumpet. "Vamp", was a nice slow ballad that speeds up and slows down. Many varying tempos and a great violin solo made this a good song. "The Tuesday-Thursday Squad", was a funk in a slow march tempo. It had great solos between the bass and drums.

The last song "Dolphin Dance" starts very slow then has some great very fast solos by the guitarist, Jeremy Ehlers. This combo played great overall. The last combo that performed was Combo 1, directed by Ryan France. They performed "Groovin' High" by Dizzy Gillespie and arranged by Matt Mobley, and "Desafinado" by Antonio Carlos Job in and it was arranged by combo 1 and sole impulse. This band had a bari-sax, piano, bass, guitar and drums.

"Groovin' High was a great bebop tune. The arrangement by Matt Mobley was awesome. It had great sax solos in it. This was one of my favorite songs of the night. The last song was "Desafinado" which was a neat cool jazz song. It featured "Sole Impulse", who was a group of talented tap dancers.

This piece sounded great with the tap dancers soloing back and forth with all of the players in the band. This must have taken a lot of practice to do all that they did in this song. One bad thing was that the tap dancing got a little long by the end. Overall, this was a great performance and very entertaining. Overall, all these combos were great and as you can tell I didn't have many complaints over their performance. I would pay to see these combos again anytime.

I had a blast.