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is an interesting project for the band members to be able to make jazz
music accessible to all those students who normally do not have the
oportunity to go to concerts or jazz clubs,and have them participate in
the creativity of a music that is based on improvisation, and is
generally unfamiliar to them due to the fact that this type of music is
not widely known because it does not fall into the commercial
patterns that are given priority in the music industry. |
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Being that many students already have or are recieving
some type of musical education, theoretical or otherwise, these concerts
are designed as a practical demonstration of what would be a jazz
session, interpreted by the Larry Martin Band,a group of professional
jazz musicians with over 12 years of experience as a stable group
formation, performing throughout Spain. |
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The formation of the Larry Martin Band, lead vocal,
piano, guitar, counterbass, and drums, gives way to a concert that
consists of five songs, this way each instrument, including the lead
vocal, has the opportunity to demonstrate their role in an
improvisation. In some cases, the instrument that undertakes the
improvisation may choose to do so in an introduction or prologue to the
main theme. In other cases the solo instrument may choose to expound a
free solo, the lead voice may choose to sing "a cappella"
(without music), and also scat, all this being a form of presentation of
each instrument during the playing of a given song, as is normally done
during any of the band's concerts. |
 
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The idea is to give a normal concert, accompanied by didactic comments
pertaining to the author, the style, the soloists, or the structure of
the song before or after each interpretation.
We
believe this to be the best and easiest way to make others understand
how, in this type of music, the theme being played is a vehicle for the
musicians and singer to improvise,and that these improvisations are
unique and different in each concert , thus demonstrating the difficulty
and grandeur of jazz.
After
the demonstrations/interpretations are done, a question/answer period
can be opened. |
