Julio Urbina 5/13/12 W 3:00-6:10pm Music 13 Instructor: Dustin Barr Jazz band concert! This Jazz concert was the first type of concert I have attended in my whole live and it was not what I was expecting it to be. Although I thought there were going to be a few musician playing different instruments, I was wrong since there were at least 20 people playing similar or completely different instruments. I was surprise by the amount of musician playing different instruments. If I’m not mistaken there were saxophones, trombones, trumpets, a bass, guitar, piano, drum set, and the conductor. The conductor Jeff Elwood is the director of instrumental Jazz Studies at Mt. San Antonio College and Jazz Saxophone professor at CSU Fullerton. He has a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music degree from Cal State Fullerton. He is an expert on his material with an excellent background and has great skills with the Saxophone. The band was composed of students and faculties members who appeared to won at the musical fair at Mt. San Antonio College. The genre of music varies from classical to jazz, soloist and ensembles, and vocal and instrumental. I was not expecting a conductor for a Jazz concert. The other peers I attended the concert comment to me that Jazz concert do not require having a conductor. I argue that yes the conductor might not be necessary based on their comments, but by having a conductor it creates more order, gives it a more professional appearance, and it forces the orchestra to play in a higher standard. I entered this music class with no previous background on music; even though most people tell me this class is simple and an easy A I think the opposite. English is my second language, and I had never learned music terminology or had a music teacher before in myself. The peers that attended the Jazz concert were surprised to find this about me since I can free style on the ukulele and bass. My respond was that you do not need to know the correct term, as long as you know the meaning behind it. This is my life struggle with music. Since I began to learn different terms, historical personas that were responsible for our modern music, how music has developed, and much more. Sincerely, I still struggle finding things I had learned in class in the music I listen to because I simply do not have the skill that are required, but I do have the ear to pick up different instruments and notes on the background. I thought it was interesting how I was able to tell the how the songs mood was going to develop thanks to me learning about Sonata Form in class. They started with a soft bass on the intro, but immediately moved to the exposition which describe both of the moods A and B. The musicians did followed the Sonata Form, but with some differences in it. One of the changes was that in the exposition the repetition of the theme had different notes; however, I was able to tell it was the same theme. The development was very simple; it was a conversation between the drums, bass, and pion, with the saxophones, trombones, and trumpets. After this Jazz concert I’m excited to go to my next concert at Mt.Sac because I’ll experience a complete different music still. I do not know what to expect and it certainly will be fun to watch.