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.
Noah Harmon is a dynamic, creative pianist, quickly gaining a
reputation as one of the hottest young piano players around. Well
versed in a multitude of styles, he brings with him bassist Andy
Mertens, and drummer Mike Underwood.
So come with a horn to join in, or just come with your ears to hear
some exciting musical interchanges at the annual Fox Jazz Festival Jam
Session!
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