Jazz Razz

Jazz Razz

Alright, if any of you have a passion for jazz like me... this is the place.  Here you can post your favourite jazz tunes, types, players, composers, tips for improvising, tips for playing, funny stories involving jazz, anything at all, as long as it's on jazz music!!

Alright, what we're playing right now in my school's Senior Jazz Band is Apple Honey, Swingin' Shepherd Blues, and Hot Hot Hot... I persuaded my Band teacher to buy Buy It and Fry It which our big band played at Jazz week at IMC.

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Hello, At Cork Jazz festival at the moment! Big annual event in Ireland. Hows things! You should check out the website.

www.corkjazzfestival.com

Was at a Jam session last night, from 230am to 6am! was mad........... Played,

Straight no chaser, Soflty as in a morning sunrise, my funny valentine. Do you play much?..

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Hey, It's Kevin! YAY!

~//Jess\\~

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It is Kevin indeed!  I'll definitely check out that website!!  The Cork Jazz Festival sounds like fun... 2:30 til 6, that is crazy!!  Me, I love to play jazz, I'm better on Clarinet than I am on Sax, but that doesn't matter since I'm lead Alto in my jazz band anyway!  (There are only two of us, it's very sad) but I love jamming and soloing, a passion I didn't really know much about before IMC.  Softly as a morning sunrise... I think I have a recording of that... do you want me to email it to you? 

We have a jazz festival too, called the Brandon Jazz Festival.  Brandon is a city about three hours drive from Winnipeg if you go the speed limit... (2 and a half hours it usually takes) Anyway, a bunch of schools go there, play, attend clinics, and get critiqued on their work.  It's fun!  Take a look: https://www.brandonjazzfestival.com/

Kevin, I remember you soloing on French Horn, that was awesome!  Just wanted to let you know.

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Normally we have every year a small jazz-festival in my town (not directly in mine, because that´s more a village, but in the next bigger one) but for one year there are problems with organisation, because there where personality-changes and it doesn´t go on...

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My jazz band had an after-school rehearsal and Mr. Klassen (my band director) handed out the piece I wrote!  The best thing is:  Everyone loved playing it!  I was so thrilled

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You wrote a piece by yourself? Great! I guess I´d love it too...


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Well, I arranged it... but most of it I had to write... I took Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries' and made it big band

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I had to arrange a piece for my conductor´s diploma too, but it was a totally different style - a baroque march! It was originally written by a princess of Prussia who lived in the 18th century and it was just for 2 violins, cello and double bass. I had to arrange it for all wind and brass... much work to do....


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*It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.*
Friedrich von Schiller

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That's so awesome!  I was working on "The Entertainer" for a woodwind quintet in the summer and now I'm trying to get Für Elise for a Woodwind Choir.  Do you want to trade some pieces?