So it’s the first week back at college and already my ensemble project is well underway. After discussing with others the genre they were most interested in I have managed to get involved in a 5 piece line up to study the progression of Jazz. Although our line up of drums, keyboard, two electric guitars and electric bass is not the most sought after to tackle the genre I hope that we will be able to put our own twist and personality into each song while keeping mainly to the originals structure and feel. As a progressing musician I feel that putting a signature sound to a performance is important and so look forward to the challenge of finding balance between tradition and originality. As the first rehearsal draws to an end we feel as a group there is a strong understanding of where we want to go with this project titled “The Progression of Jazz”. Starting out with such innovators as Gershwin we hope to take a famous figure from each decade and perform one of their songs gradually revealing how Jazz has evolved and branched off into other genres, such as the creative polyrhythmic jazz of Dave Brubeck to the Jazz - Funk fusion of Herbie Hancock! With a few songs in mind for next week I look forward to researching into the evolution of this genre and the challenges that playing this style on drums will bring to me. I feel that Jazz is a rarely performed style at Perth College and hope that with time and enthusiasm this project will help to make the style more popular with the institute. By this time next week it is hopeful that we will have our first possible three tracks laid down and learned. I’ll update the blog next week on how this has come to pass!
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