My jazz ensemble project now known by the more original name “The Take Five” has now accomplished a second successful practice with three possible tracks well under way. Now that last week’s excitement and enthusiasm has simmered slightly the band has had time to consider our proposal in an attempt to narrow down our chosen project to a more doable topic. As we have recently found out, Jazz is an incredibly broad style with hundreds of sub genres being created as the years went on. To cover all of these from the birth of Jazz to modern day in our show and research report would almost be an impossible task given the time we have. With this mind we have managed to minimise our project to researching jazz from only the 40’s to the 60’s, exploring how it evolved in this period and how from the classics new styles, structures, harmony and many other attributes came to pass. As we stand at the moment I still feel that we are focusing mainly on our song choices without actually researching each ones relevance to the project in hand. With time though, I hope that both will come together making our project proposal a strong candidate for a high grade. Jazz is a genre I love but know very little about and so with time I hope the experience of all of this will educate me greatly in the phenomenon. We soon hope to be rehearsing twice a week and already have a few offers for small gigs just to get us warmed up for the final show however it is still the early days . Well that’s all for now! An update will follow next week!
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