On May 16, 2017 the Keyboard Orchestra went on a trip to see a jazz performance. It was in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the Lincoln Center in New York City. The jazz band that played called themselves the Gotham Jazzmen and played New Orleans Jazz music. There was a total of six members in the band; a cornetist, trombonist, a pianist, clarinetist, a double bass player, and a drummer.
In the performance the drummer had no bass drum and also used a type of brush to play the drum with which gave off a cool effect while he played it. He also had a solo almost every song where he would just freestyle like the other instruments during the song. All the songs that he had a solo on was great because he played some really great upbeat rhythms. The pianist had acted as the singer as well and he usually sang similar to the voice of Louis Armstrong’s voice by adding a gravelly tone to it. The songs that they played were great and my favorite one out of all of them was Rosetta because the clarinet solo was great and the clarinetist played so fluidly which made it even better. Soon the performance had to end because the Bruno Walter Auditorium had other programs going on and cut them off earlier than usual. For their last long they busted out playing When The Saints Go Marching In almost immediately. Overall the performance was great and what really amazed me was how the gentlemen were able to play all the songs they did without needing a music sheet or score.They were also constantly listening to each other for their cue to come in or out to play.
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