{"id":12,"date":"2012-11-30T13:59:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:38:32","slug":"bands-talents-end-year-on-high-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/bands-talents-end-year-on-high-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands’ talents end year on high note"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Mark Murray<\/p>\n

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‘An Evening of Jazz’ at the News-Journal Center brings together the talents of student musicians.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The auditorium filled with parents and jazz fans hushed to a\u00a0still silence as the program director for Daytona State College music department took the stage at the News-Journal center.<\/p>\n

The two musical acts were made up of students from DSC, and other non-collegiate musical members of the community. Two acts were on t he bill, a smaller student combo, and a big band performance.<\/p>\n

First up was the DSC student combo, with a little explained history behind\u00a0each piece. The combo was comprised of a guitar, bass guitar, alto\u00a0saxophone, trombone, a percussionist, with their professor at the helm on the piano. The bass player was wielding a wooden plank with a bunch of\u00a0shiny, taught lengths of rope, or at least that is what his monstrous\u00a0six-stringed bass looked like.<\/p>\n

The trombone and sax melted together in a harmonious mixture that soothed listening ears. \u201cHe’s been working very hard since he was very young\u201d said the father of one of the student-musicians. The guitar player had lightning\u00a0hands for the complex, demanding jazz phrasing. The glue of the percussionist held the syncopated beats together. Each musician had\u00a0their chance to carve out a moment in tone and time with a solo
\nimprovisation, with rounds of applause following.<\/p>\n

Next was the big band, which contained all the musicians from the\u00a0combo and more, taking up nearly the whole stage this time. It\u00a0was a diverse crowd that bore a sensuous tonal spectrum. The rich\u00a0sounds were billowing with a sonic breadth that danced on eardrums. Ornate with sonic peppering that lulled the audience into a colorful daydream.<\/p>\n

The crescendos came on like the crack\u00a0of a whip. They sailed through savory seas of timeless tunes by\u00a0the greats, doing them much justice. It is not a simple task comparing to the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. \u00a0The kind of discipline required to execute such a task,\u00a0even among seasoned musicians is akin to skiing a black\u00a0diamond-level slope.<\/p>\n

A few literal \u201cooh-and-ah\u201d moments evoked cooing sighs of approval as if they were \u201cDr. Jazz\u201d\u00a0testing the audience for reflexes. The bass player, brandishing a beautiful fretless bass was responsible for a few of these. One of the\u00a0absolute standout moments was the big band percussionist’s\u00a0improvisation. His tasteful, masterful playing conjured emotion that revealed the depth of percussion. The show was a beaming success, and received a standing a\u00a0ovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The auditorium filled with parents and jazz fans hushed to a still silence as the program director for Daytona State College music department took the stage at the News-Journal center.<\/p>\n

The two musical acts were made up of students from DSC, and other non-collegiate musical members of the community. Two acts were on t he bill, a smaller student combo, and a big band performance. Continue reading Bands’ talents end year on high note<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}