Category: Music
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Record Breaking Record Collection?
Our Jazz Appreciation Group met on Tuesday 26 March 2024 with a guest speaker Peter who has a very impressive collection of Jazz music on some 10,000 vinyl records. His 23 visits to the USA to scavenge in the many downtown record stores has resulted in him holding some very rare discs indeed. Peter had…
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How Jazz Divided and Developed
Our Jazz Appreciation group were treated to an afternoon that analysed and described how the Traditional Jazz Bands in Great Britain divided, reformed, split and developed in the post-war period. Our guide on the subject, Ken, had a wealth of material and was able to illustrate the changes with a number of recordings. We were…
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The History of Early Recorded Sound
Our Monthly Meeting on Wednesday 24 January 2024 featured a familiar face – Herbie Goldberg – as our speaker. His subject was The History of Recorded Sound. Whilst many people believe that the first recorded sound was Thomas Edison reciting a nursery rhyme about a girl and her little lamb, Herbie was able to correct…
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Examining Jazz’s Roots in Classical
On Wednesday 11 October 2023, we enjoyed a new session that examined the roots of jazz in classical music with two presenters, one concentrating on the jazz influence on classical music, and the other looking at interpretations of classical music by jazz musicians. Herbie introduced us to the music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Gottschalk was…
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Exploring the Big Band Sound 1926-45
Our Jazz Appreciation group explored the Big Band Sound on Tuesday 22 August 2023 with Ken providing a series of recordings that illustrated the development of the sound. Starting with the music of Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra in about 1926, a new sound was developed using the Swing form of Jazz. The new sound…
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Jazz Appreciation Tours the World
Our well-attended Jazz Appreciation Group made a tour of the world of Jazz at their meeting on Tuesday 27 June 2023. Starting in the USA with ‘Fats’ Waller playing “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, then to France for Django Reinhardt, then to New England for Bing Crosby singing “Now you has Jazz”. Back to France for Claude Luter…
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A Journey from Storyville to Chicago
Our Jazz Appreciation Group met on Tuesday 28 March 2023 to learn about the journey from Storyville to Chicago for US Jazz Musicians. Storyville was a part of downtown New Orleans, LA, between the Business District and the French Quarter. According to Wikipedia, Storyville was the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1897 to…
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Disney’s Animated Music
17 November 2022 Mike Morrow introducing talk by Olaf Jubin at Magic of the Musicals, Kenton U3A, “The Musical Numbers in Disney Animated Features”