Wynton Marsalis - Lecture on Music - Vol 3

- Sousa to Satchmo: Marsalis on the Jazz Band - At the Tanglewood Music Center - 1995
1) Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever” is performed by The Tanglewood Music Center Wind Band.
2) Wynton introduces the wind band and the March form. He also introduces the Composer/Bandleader John Philip Sousa.
3) Wynton introduces ragtime and expands on how it bridged the music of the Midwest with the music of the South. The chapter includes performances of Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” on piano and also byThe Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. As well, a ragtime piano roll is featured on a player piano.
Wynton discusses how marches and ragtime are interrelated and led to the advent of New Orleans Jazz. - Musical concepts introduced include ragging, syncopation, the two beat feel, sixteen bar strains and the trio section of the composition.
4) In this chapter, Wynton introduces the roots of New Orleans Jazz.
Concepts include improvisation, cadence, and musical communication.
With the Liberty Brass Band, Wynton compares the treatment of “High Society March” as performed in the classic style by the Tanglewood Wind Band with the same piece performed in the New Orleans Jazz style.
5) In this chapter, Wynton introduces the notion of Jazz as collective improvisation.
Both The Tanglewood Orchestra and the Liberty Brass Band perform “The Stars and Stripes”, one in the classic manner, the other as a Jazz arrangement.
Concepts introduced include: beat vs. groove, polyphony, register, trombone tailgating and call & response.
6) Here, Wynton expands on call & response.
He and the Liberty Brass Band perform “The Whoopin’ Blues”.
Concepts introduced include the riff and the solo break.
7) Wynton talks about the cornet and also touches upon the notion of expert techniques and variations on a single theme. Mark Inouye, a virtuoso student at Tanglewood, performs the cornet showpiece “Variations on the Carnival Of Venice”.
8) Wynton talks about the great pioneers of Jazz, in particular Buddy Bolden and Louis Armstrong.
He and the Liberty Brass Band perform Armstrong’s “Cornet Chop Suey”.
9) Wynton summarizes all of the main themes of the episode.
Both the Tanglewood Orchestra and The Liberty Brass Band perform J.P. Sousa’s “Manhattan Beach March”.
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