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Eubie Blake and The History Of Jazz
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History of jazz, like almost all arts, is divided into three stages. It was first done by “the people: the Dixieland and New Orleans, the blues and gospel song and then for the people: the middle jazz, rhythm and blues , soul jazz, he is finally charged, may not be “against” the people, but it is done “outside” of the people: this was one time the bop and free jazz and post free jazz of today.
Jazz has more than one hundred years old, it is normal since its infancy it has evolved considerably. Next you have any preconceived ideas based on aesthetic imperatives defined by fixed ideas or criticism that you are as free as receptive, your idea may be different at all.
Jazz pianists, there have been many, but those who have renewed or changed the language of jazz are not many. The prerogative of a good pianist jazz is so rich that few elected to succeed: a refined sense of rhythmic and harmonic language, a sense of melody, a good ear, a quick-witted and inventive, and modesty, because The distinctive feature of the jazz musician is to keep pushing its own limits.
You will notice that I did not mention the technique, I should also be talking about “technology” because all the major pianists and jazz musicians have developed their own instrumental approach, whether or not self-taught musicians. Jazz music can not live if it is formatted, conditioned by educational precepts. Jazz music is linked to freedom.
If gossips say “jazz is dead,” is to go far fast. Jazz has continued to adjust, to slip into other musical forms. Jazz is now ubiquitous in forms and colors quite different. That may be why we no longer distinguish very well today as original music.
Eubie Blake,
STRIDE AND PIANIST OF RAGTIME
Eubie Blake learns to read music very young and began his early career as pianist in the boxes disreputable Baltimore. Until the eve of his death at age 100, he never stopped playing ragtime, inserting in its interpretations of delicious asides about his career and his colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »
When The Film Plays Its Range The Piano
The piano has attracted<and still attracts many filmmakers who give it a central role or anecdotal. In film, he sometimes serves as a backdrop for a scene in search of inspiration or perfectly illustrates the story of a middle class of the past. Sometimes it takes an educational role, but in this case, it is rarely seen as an easy tool, but rather as the center of an ideology of thinking in which the pianist is being portrayed as a troubled or deeply obscure. They are often portrayed as beings of exceptions, gifted, rarely frivolous or light.
I have often smiled at the vision of a pianist who is able, talking, playing with a relaxed technically difficult piece or an improvisation that would not have denied a renowned jazz pianist. If the film takes as much trouble to depict the reality of a scene, details of a suit why he lets himself go as much as it is implausible to treat music on the screen? This is all the more intolerable when it is at the center of the story. But what is the response from advisers in making a film? Is there a lack of consultation? Even for films “serious” or “ambitious”, there is considerable room for interrogation. Many incongruities arise here or there, without the glare.
Do not forget that the viewer is not a musician in power and he has a good chance of taking for granted what he sees on the screen, the actor to be convincing or not its role as a musician. Ultimately, the film serves more often the music he does boast in confusing the viewer’s artistic vision. I always thought that the primary purpose of the quality of a film was to entertain intelligently preserving the story as fact, a certain authenticity.
When music is used as a means of pageantry, it generally helps to strengthen the emotional note in history. In projecting his soundscape with small touches, the music somehow manipulates the sensitivity of the unconscious person who attends the show. She carries most often in scenes or situations that do not fit in any reality. This can be authentic as a dance number performed by real dancers, is sometimes inappropriate or ridiculous when a player tries to play the role of a musician with more or less successfully.
A film like “The Pianist”, showing some moments of real performers, a vision is rare in the cinema (various shots including overhanging leave no room for any ambiguity between the reality of what we see, this we hear and fiction).
Nevertheless, perhaps because the film today is rooted in a kind of reality show, the viewer does not have the same dreams as before or that his attention is not focused on the same values, the 7th art has undeniable efforts to make credible vision of the musician performs on the screen. Read the rest of this entry »