My take on the Jazz Quartet

I’m not sure if we were supposed to post about yesterday, but here it goes. To be completely honest, I didn’t expect to like jazz and therefore I already had a disliking towards jazz despite hearing it. As I was walking into the Julliard School, I was thinking of everything else I could of been doing, of anything but this. When I sat down and started hearing all the different songs, however, I must say it wasn’t what I had expected. The music seemed to come together but at the same time you could distinguish the different types of instrument sounds.I didn’t even realize that their music had developed from stories out of their own lives until Frank Kimbrough was discussing the story behind “Little Jordan.” Just like artists draw inspiration from their own lives, musicians draw, or play if you will, inspiration from their own lives. In reality, art and music are not so different; they are two ways to express yourself(like two sides of the same coin) and it is up to us to translate that based o our own views. Music simply makes us “hear” rather than “see” what the artist/musician is trying to portray. This was definitely an opportunity that I would not have experienced without Macaulay Honors and I’m sure it won’t be the last.