Jam Session:
"An informal performance
of musicians, involving a degree of improvisation. Jam sessions also
serve as training sessions for young musicians. Common in jazz, also
pop and folk music."
"In the lore and discipline of jazz
nothing has been more important than the tales told of jam sessions and
the knowledge resulting from them. In the jam session, artistry fuses
with the athletic event, the debate, and the card game. One displays
the ability to express human feeling in artistic form, to compete with
fellow musicians in terms of eloquence, and to play a musical hand -
aggressing, baiting in, backing out, reading the minds of others. Those
jam session elements have long made for legends and for disputes as to
what actually took place. They have lifted and lowered reputations,
provided exceptional examples of flexibility, and schooled more than a
few in the hard knocks and satisfactions of struggling with the
standards of the elders and coming into the personal power necessary
for high quality improvisation."
---- Stanley Crouch -
Battle Royale
No
Jazz festival would be complete without a jam session, and once
again, the Fox Jazz Festival is sponsoring a Saturday night jam session
at the Holiday Inn
Riverwalk.
The
host of the session is Noah Harmon, with his trio.
Harmon, known for his intense improvised solos that tap into Bud Powell
as well as Rachmaninoff, is also a wonderful accompanist behind any and
all players who dare to sit in. Whether one is in the audience or on
stage, be prepared for surprises.
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