[Dixielandjazz] Fwd: FREE "NEW ORLEANS CONCERT" - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2006

[John McClernan]

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> From: "Rawlins, Robert" <rawlinsr at rowan.edu>
> Date: February 6, 2006 12:13:42 PM EST
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> Subject: FW: FREE "NEW ORLEANS CONCERT" - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2006
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> From: Rowan Event News [mailto:RowanAnnouncer at lists.rowan.edu]
> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 4:29 PM
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> Subject: FREE "NEW ORLEANS CONCERT" - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2006
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> FREE “NEW ORLEANS CONCERT” – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2006
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> Celebrate the music of New Orleans as part of Rowan’s African- 
> American History Month commemoration with a free “New Orleans  
> Concert” on Tuesday, February 7 at 8:00 p.m. in Boyd Recital Hall.
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> The six-piece band features Robert Rawlins on clarinet; Paul Grant  
> on trumpet; Clint Sharman on trombone; Michael Piper on drums; Doug  
> Mapp on bass; and George Mesterhazy on piano.
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> Among the songs on the program are “Royal Garden Blues”; “Wolverine  
> Blues”; “Fidgety Feet”; “Basin St. Blues”; “Bourbon St. Parade”;  
> “Muskrat Ramble”; and “Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans?”
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> These songs were written by composers such as Louis Armstrong;  
> pianist Jelly Roll Morton (who once claimed to have invented jazz  
> himself—in 1902!); Kid Ory, inventor of “tailgate trombone” style;  
> and Clarence Williams (the first composer to use the word “jazz” on  
> a piece of sheet music, in 1915). Several of these songs were  
> written before the word “jazz” was even used.
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> New Orleans has always been the cradle of jazz, where it developed  
> in the infamous Storyville “red light” district. In the early years  
> of the 1900s, jazz developed among African-American musicians inNew  
> Orleans (but it was still called ragtime). This “new” style of  
> music was not recorded until 1917, when it became a national  
> sensation. But New Orleans-style jazz, sometimes called Dixieland,  
> has been played continuously in that city since it was invented.
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> This concert offers authentic instrumentation and repertoire. New  
> Orleans jazz is characterized by collective improvisation, where  
> all musicians improvise at the same time — the trumpet plays the  
> melody but makes it “hot”…the trombone plays a swinging bass line  
> known as “tailgate”…the clarinet weaves in and out in a style that  
> has been compared to the ornamental ironwork on the balconies of  
> New Orleans buildings…the drummer goes back and forth between a  
> “street beat” (for marching) and swing rhythms…the piano combines  
> ragtime with jazzed-up melodic style…the bass lays down the solid  
> “march” tempo.
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