Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era
Sat, Aug 26
|Maywood
This presentation will engage listeners through playing literature common to the New Orleans Era of Jazz.


Time & Location
Aug 26, 2023, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Maywood, 121 S 5th Ave, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
About the Event
Traditional Jazz: A Historical Perspective of Early Jazz from the New Orleans and Chicago Era
This presentation will engage listeners through playing literature common to the New Orleans Era of Jazz. Musicians will perform in a collective improvisational texture on instruments common to the genre. The audience will engage in lecture material describing the role of each instrument in the ensemble citing notable historical musicians and musical examples. Performers will demonstrate techniques on their instrument that are common to this style. Audience members will be encouraged to ask questions of any of the musicians during the lecture portion of the performance.
Jazz is a music best enjoyed in live performance. Audiences are usually encouraged to applaud for soloists and clap rhythmically during performances. In this way, much like dancing, participants feel the music in a very subjective manner. It invades their consciousness and envelopes their soul. It has always been…