"What is Jazz?" by Marcia Dunscomb

 

A sincere thank you and much praise to Marcia Dunscomb, jazz pianist, composer, author, and piano teacher, for her April 30, 2022 Owl & Ibis presentation, What is Jazz?

Marcia’s narrative is here and links to videos she showed are below. There is music in all of us, some of it dormant, some as appreciation, and some as we are able to make it.

Marcia rekindled our focus on this foremost expression of our emotional life with her superb presentation on but one of music’s modes, that uniquely American music form we call jazz.

Thank you, Marcia!

Jazz in America, Herbie Hancock

https://www.jazzinamerica.org/HerbieHancock

(50) Collective Improvisation in New Orleans Jazz - YouTube

Count Basie Blues in Hoss Flat

(50) Count Basie Orchestra - Blues in Hoss Flat - YouTube

Count Basie in a Mel Brooks movie you may remember:

(50) Mel Brooks & Count Basie - Blazing saddles (1974) Le Sherif est en Prison - YouTube

Dizzy Gillespie and Paquito D'Rivera

(50) Dizzy Gillespie - Be Bop - YouTube

(50) "Django"(John Lewis),Modern Jazz Quartet in London - YouTube

(50) Dave Brubeck - Take Five - YouTube

Herbie Hancock speaking to Elvis Costello and then playing Watermelon Man

(50) Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man - YouTube

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