Jazz Instruments
For the new jazz-rock idiom, Miles Davis’s trumpet style changed in the following way: a. He returned to play?
For the new jazz-rock idiom, Miles Davis’s trumpet style changed in the following way:
a. He returned to playing slow, ponderous lines in a “cool” style
b. He wired his trumpet to an amplifier and connected electronic attachments
c. He bent the bell of his trumpet upward at a wild angle
d. all of the above
Occasionally “B”. Mostly none of the above. He played short jagged phrases quite often. Mostly he was concentrating on counterpoint and rhythmic statements.
REEL Jazz moves to the Trylon, and this week’s jazz picks
In spring 2008, Kevin Barnes of KBEM launched a series he called REEL Jazz — films about jazz. Held in the theater at the Bryant Lake Bowl, it featured movies that bigger rooms and chains wouldn’t touch: about singer Jackie Paris and pianist Fred Hersch, avant-garde musician Cecil Taylor, guitarist Pat Martino, clarinetist Woody Allen (yes, that Woody Allen), and a public-school jazz program in …
