I am an architecture student and it's been a hard year for me. Finally I have my summer break! I'm a...
I am an architecture student and it's been a hard year for me. Finally I have my summer break! I'm also a jazz fanatic, and play the piano and violin as a part time profesion. I love sports, and computers and technology is one of my favourite subjects.
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Duke Ellington composed many interesting traditional jazz music suited at that time for big band style. Amongst the popular music he wrote were Mood Indigo, It Don't Mean A Thing, Caravan, Chelsea Bridge and many more. His compositions in my opinion were very radical compared to those of the traditional era which cause some people to dislike it. It applies more tension chords as ever, bringing in modern jazz concepts and adapting them in a traditional context.
He is however one of the legends in the field of jazz and although many do not know him, they have heard of him. Many of his songs are taken today and played in small group bands, trios and quartets and improvised to meet modern expectations.
I personally enjoyed the tracks because I am a jazz fanatic. What I didn't enjoy was the poor recording quality which is probably inevitable during those times.
It is really quite hard to comment on this one because there isn't much history to the songs. What I can comment on however is that while many of us only know jazz from modern smooth artists such as Keiko Matsui and Kenny G, this would be an interesting one to actually step back, go back in time and experience the essence of pure traditions in jazz, big band style.
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