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July31st

WHEN I THINK of the COUNTY FAIR I THINK of PIE EATING CONTESTS

Posted in: Articles, Entertainment, Events, Local, Music, Orange County

When I think of the County Fair I think of pie eating contests, pig races, great music and down home cooking. Throughout America, county fairs have resembled a wonderful group of energetic, hard working, and fun loving people.

Back in the day, the fair had all of the elements of an old home week. — families looked forward to seeing friends and family at the fair. It’s where great memories were made and these memories are still going strong at The Orange County Fair in Southern California. The Orange County fair started in 1889 on Fruit Street in Santa Ana as a small 5 day community celebration and has since become a 23 day event that is one of Orange County’s most eagerly awaited events of the year. Read More | Comments
July31st

the JAZZ PIANO GENIUS of OSCAR PETERSON

Posted in: Articles, Guest Post

AUTHOR:: DUANE SHINN

From his early like of music to his last years, Oscar Peterson’s life was full with accomplishments and support from his family. The choice to become a professional pianist led to a weekly radio show and many performances in hotels and music halls for Peterson.Although his life finished at the age of 82, Oscar Peterson had an extremely productive musical career in jazz that finished too quickly. Named Oscar Emmanuel Peterson, he was born on August 15, 1925, in Canada. As a child growing up in Canada, he and his family lived in a predominantly black neighborhood called Small Burgundy in Montreal.

Because of his surroundings, Peterson was largely influenced by jazz music, which was extremely well loved during this era. Peterson started playing and perfecting the art of the trumpet and piano at age five. But, tuberculosis caused him to stop playing the trumpet and focus primarily on his gift for piano playing. To develop his extraordinary skills, Peterson practiced scales and classical eludes every single day. His daily routine consisted of four to six hours of solid practice time a day.

Studying with pianist Paul de Marky helped further refine his talents. Peterson soon started to concentrate on jazz, ragtime and boogie-woogie music. Because of his newfound interest in emerging music types, he was nicknamed “The Brown Bomber of the Boogie Woogie.”

By nine years ancient, Peterson’s collaboration list was growing quickly. At fourteen years ancient, he won the national music competition hosted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But, his next life-changing choice proved controversial yet life-changing. Peterson chose to drop out of school and to become a professional pianist. The choice to become a professional pianist led to a weekly radio show and many performances in hotels and music halls for Peterson. Read More | Comments
July31st

To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

Posted in: Guest Post, Jazz, Jazz Artist, Jazz Music, Jazz Musician, Music, Sponsored

To a Young Jazz Musician: Letters from the Road

In To a Young Jazz Musician, the renowned jazz musician and Pulitzer Prize—winning composer Wynton Marsalis gives us an invaluable guide to making excellent music–and to leading a excellent life.
Writing from the road “between the bus ride, the sound check, and the gig,”

Marsalis passes on wisdom gained from experience, addressed to a young musician coming up–and to any of us at any stage of life. He writes that having humility is a way to continue to grow, to listen, and to learn; th

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July31st

Enjoy Big Band Jazz Music

Posted in: Articles, Guest Post, Jazz, Music

Jazz enjoys a universal popularity. This form of music emerged in the beginning of the 20th century in the African- American community of the United States of America. The repetitive patterns of call and response define the jazz music. The various types of rhythm patterns that are prevalent in the jazz music are reggae, blues and the swing patterns.

A kind of musical assembly associated with the jazz music is known as the big band jazz music. This sort of ensemble can also be called as jazz band, jazz orchestra, jazz ensemble and dance band. However there is one primary difference between the big band jazz music and the other forms of jazz music. While the most of the jazz combos are highly improvised or and created spontaneously, the music that is played in the big bands jazz music is often arranged and prepared from before. In this form of music, the notations are notated on the sheet music in advance. Read More | Comments
July27th

PLAY JAZZ GUITAR

Posted in: Articles, Guest Post, Jazz, Jazz Music, Music

Jazz guitar music is based on various guitarists’ attempts to experiment with the form used to express musical thoughts.

Jazz started with the African slaves combining the song and dance forms they found in America with the musical traditions they carried with them from their homeland. Since then jazz musicians of every nationality have developed certain methods of taking a musical idiom and turning it into jazz by interpreting the music using jazz chord substitution and improvising techniques.

The trademark of the jazz guitar player is that he is inventing new music all the time. When people learn to play musical instruments it is usually with the aim of playing the songs or instrumentals of a well-known musician. In jazz the aim is to build new music using other musical genres or the works of composers from outside jazz. A jazz guitarist with a number of years’ experience will have developed his own ways of improvising over a song or instrumental piece. Quite often his improvisation will be based on the techniques of using the notes in the chord he is playing to provide the material for his solo, or to simply use the notes he finds in the melody.

Whichever approach the jazz guitar player uses he will always depart from the melodic structure of the musical work he is improvising over and use melodic figures or “licks” which he has made up or learned from other guitarists. A lick is a combination of notes which can be used in improvising over music in any key. A lick is like a very small tune or fraction of a melody. Listen carefully to a jazz guitar solo. Try imitating some of the licks that you hear. You do not need to play them exactly, just imitate them and see how they fit with other licks to carry the solo to its ending. Read More | Comments