JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
What is Jazz ?
What do you consider the elements of music that enable it to go under the label of Jazz? lets just stick to instrumental at this stage not vocalists.
For me the first thing is that it must be improvised (I realise there is a bit more to it) and not from a score so this would make it nigh on impossible for a large ensemble to be called a Jazz Band .
In my youth I played in several Trad Bands which were made up of seven musicians and the common line up was Piano, Base, Drums, Guitar/Banjo and a front line of Trumpet, Trombone and Clarinet I do not think you could get much larger and stay together.
Larger Bands.
Dance Bands would go up to 12 plus and had to use scores as do the famous bands that we all know and call Jazz Bands.
What makes a Swing Band and how is it different from a Jazz Band ?
These are a few rambling thought that I have in the hope to stimulate a discussion.
Over to you
What do you consider the elements of music that enable it to go under the label of Jazz? lets just stick to instrumental at this stage not vocalists.
For me the first thing is that it must be improvised (I realise there is a bit more to it) and not from a score so this would make it nigh on impossible for a large ensemble to be called a Jazz Band .
In my youth I played in several Trad Bands which were made up of seven musicians and the common line up was Piano, Base, Drums, Guitar/Banjo and a front line of Trumpet, Trombone and Clarinet I do not think you could get much larger and stay together.
Larger Bands.
Dance Bands would go up to 12 plus and had to use scores as do the famous bands that we all know and call Jazz Bands.
What makes a Swing Band and how is it different from a Jazz Band ?
These are a few rambling thought that I have in the hope to stimulate a discussion.
Over to you