Brazz Temptaitions

by Petar PLAMENOV

BraZZoBrazZZie

First Jazz Festival For Brazz Music on the stage of Sofia Live Cub
10- 12 February 2012

Address:
Sofia, 1 Bulgaria Square, NPC, subway with the fountains
Working time: 20:00–04:00
Nr seats: 270
Mobile: 088 833 11 93


Trumpet, trombone, tuba, horn, saxophone, serpent... Brass instruments are made of a lacquered or plated metal. Traditionally the instruments are normally made of brass, polished and then lacquered to prevent corrosion. Some higher quality and higher cost instruments use gold or silver plating to prevent corrosion. A few specialty instruments are made from wood.A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Big Bands and other jazz bands commonly contain cylindrical bore brass instruments.BraZZoBrazZZie is The First Jazz Festival For Brazz Music on the stage of Sofia Live Cub.



Many of the most popular jazz pieces for brass band are created by some of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century - Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis. Each of these artists is an era in jazz style. It is therefore not surprising that groups will perform in the festival their evergreen songs.

Famous jazz musicians most certainly influenced just about every music genre that is heard today. Characterized by African and European sounds, a swing tempo and big brass instruments, jazz music and its famous musicians paved the way for future rock, country and hip hop music alike. Louis Armstrong may be the most well known and influential jazz musician of all time. Born and raised in New Orleans, the city known as the birthplace of jazz, Armstrong began playing music at a very young age. When he dropped out of school in third grade, he formed a street roaming vocal quartet to help earn money for his single mother and their family; later Armstrong had an opportunity to play cornet in a boy's band.



It wasn't long before someone took notice of his natural talent. Joe "King" Oliver, a jazz cornet great, saw Armstrong playing a gig in a small blues club and became a mentor for him. Armstrong lived in St. Louis, Chicago and New York over the next years, playing in bands and steadily increasing his recognition and popularity. Armstrong was so influential because of his ability to improvise and effortlessly hit the high notes. His singing voice was also something the world had never heard: gravelly, raw and one of the first to introduce audiences to scat singing. Armstrong even went on to perform in films, enhancing his lengthy and hugely successful career.
 
Charlie Parker was one of the first great jazz saxophonists of the 40s and 50s. He played with local bands in Kansas City as a boy, eventually leaving school to pursue a career in music. Like most other jazz musicians, Parker traveled to Chicago and then New York City, the epicenters of jazz music at the time. He participated in a jazz orchestra out of Harlem and created many solo tunes. Parker experimented with the big band swing music of the era of the 40s and 50s, using it to create a fast paced jazz called bebop. Parker was most known for his creative improvisations and the complex nature of his new style of music.
 
Miles Davis, another famous jazz musician great, began playing the trumpet at the young age of 13. Davis studied music and had classical training through high school, leading him to excel early on, even playing his first professional gig when he was only 17. Attending Juilliard School of Music in New York, Davis learned about jazz through professional teaching and from the clubs downtown. Davis eventually strayed away from both Juilliard and bebop sound, creating a new sound of moodier and smoother cool jazz.

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