Hello and welcome everyone to our faculty jazz concert. Today, April 16th is the date of our original Jazz Festival, where normally middle schools and high school jazz ensembles come and perform at the University of Delaware School of Music. And we give clinics and there's a big concert at night. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to do that. But next year we do have a date, April 29th, Friday, April 29th, 22. So we should be back and running. We thought that the faculty jazz, we'd give a concert on this state. And it's a little different than a live streaming event because we recorded it a few weeks ago. And I want to shout out to our sound engineer John Fredenburg for doing a nice job recording. So the sound quality is really good. And then Todd put the video together. So this is, this is what we got and I'd like to pass it off now to Miles Brown, bassist. And he can talk about the first couple tunes that we're going to be playing. Welcome everybody. My name is Miles on the professor of base and jazz at the University of Delaware. The first two tunes we're going to be doing our attribute to the great Chick Corea who we lost in the jazz world this year. The first one is two of his entitled Bud Powell, which is on his tribute to the great pianist. Bud Powell. It's sort of like a bebop head and it's got some complicated chord changes and some changes and groove. Really fun piece to play. And really energetic. The piece after that is a different vibe from that. It's, it's a tune called Sea Journey. And it starts off with a bass ostinato, which sort of to me has like a feeling of ocean waves and a boat floating on the ocean. Go on this epic journey. It's a really, really cool tune and we have fun playing. I'm playing on it. So after that, I will hand it over to our saxophone professor Todd Groves. Hello, I'm Todd, I teach saxophone and jazz at UD. Quick little Chick Corea story. Chick Corea was a huge influence on me. One time, as part of his 60th birthday celebration, I went to hear him play at the Blue Note in New York City before I lived in New York City. And he this was one of the, he had a whole week and every night with a different band. And of course, in this situation, they didn't get to rehearse much. They probably rehearsed that afternoon and then play the gig at night. So I went to see the Three Quartets band with Michael Brecker, Eddie Gomez, and Steve Gadd and Chick. And one of the tunes they started and they it was a complete train wreck and they stopped. So what I learned at that moment Chick said stop and everyone kinda laughed, they knew the situation. And he very, very, very slowly, he sat down at the piano and play the intro. And you could see him looking at every finger moving every muscle. And I felt like this was this fantastic window into the way that he actually practiced and he did it super slowly. And then he's like, Okay, I'm ready. 1234. And they went in and it was perfect. I always pass that along to students. The next tune on our concert is my tune Hazy Glass. After I wrote this tune, I was kinda like, what is this about? What should I name it? And it kind of like it it reminded me of looking through some hazy glass where you're not really sure what's on the other side. And just when you think you know what's going on, maybe you, maybe you don't realize what's going on because it took a trip in a different direction. All right, I'm going to hand it back to our head of Jazz Studies at UD, Tom Palmer who didn't introduce himself at the beginning. Thanks Todd. Yeah. I direct the jazz ensembles here and, and it's, it's been a pleasure of mine for many years. Another pleasure of mine is playing piano. I played, I've been playing drums all my life, but I, and piano, but I really got into piano years ago and just love to play every day I'm at the piano and I really compose at the piano So is this tune, Cold Brew, I guess came out of this, all this new, new coffee process cold brewing, which I love coffee also. And just a simple form and, and Melody kinda came out and I spent a couple of weeks on it and just enjoy it. So I move over to the piano to, to, to play Cold Brew. And now I'd like to introduce Professor of the guitar. Dave Bozenhard Hello, hello. I'm Dave Bozenhard I teach jazz guitar at University of Delaware. And I arranged Nica's Dream for us to play. This is a tune that I first heard Wes Montgomery playing it. And I always thought that the harmony and the tune was just a little different than so many other tunes in the canon. And it has this almost like a sixties noir, noir kind of vibe. But this arrangement is more a direct lift from the Horace Silver version from Horace-Scope. And this intense Latin vibe I remember playing along with it. And when I would play it on my own, I just started slipping into seven. This arrangement is in an odd meter, at least one of the sections. And I just found that so comfortable in 7, I didn't even realize I was doing it. And it just sort of inspired me to say, Hey, I should arrange this in this odd meter and maybe it'll be cool. So that's what I did. And so many, so much of the language and the lines are lifts from the Horace version. But I've got this odd meter thing happening and the guys put smiles on and played it and hopefully you enjoy it. So with that, I'll say hopefully everyone enjoys the concert. Thank you for watching and listening, and thank you for giving the UD jazz department your time. Thank you.
UD Faculty Jazz : Jazzfest
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The UD Faculty Jazz Ensemble is Todd Groves, tenor and soprano saxophone, Dave Bozenhard, guitar, Miles Brown, bass, and Tom Palmer, drums and piano.
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