Female singers of Jazz and Blues in Spain Laura Alútiz 4th A
INDEX 1- BLUES: -Characteristics - Singers -Instruments 2-JAZZ: -Characteristics -Singers -Instruments 3-FEMALE SINGERS OF JAZZ IN SPAIN: -Anna Rodriguez -Andrea Motis - Interview to Isabel Bermejo
BLUES Blues is a vocal and instrumental music genre based in the use of blues notes and a repetitive pattern of call and response that usually follows an structure of twelve compasses. Its origin comes from the afroamerican communities of U.S.A and it developed by means of work songs, english rhymes,field shouts The most known groups of Blues in Spain are seven: -Blues Band of Granada -Blues Basters -Caledonia Blues Band -Hoochie Coochie Band - Pata Negra
Ella Fitzgerald (more jazz than MOST KNOWN SINGERS OF BLUES These are some of the most known singers of Blues:
James Cotton Janis Joplin Alicia Keys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllu9w0blbc
INSTRUMENTS OF BLUES
JAZZ Jazz is a music genre that was born on the second half of 19th century in the U. S.A and it expanded to all over the world in the 20th century. Main characteristics: -Special sense of rhythm -Use of improvisation - Peculiar sound and harmonious treatment based on work songs, Gospels, spiritual and specially in the Blues.
MOST KNOWN JAZZ MUSICIANS Keith Jarrett Herbie Hancock Wynton Marsalis Charles Mingus John Coltrane
Mary Lou Williams Nat King Cole https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=aix9axm42o8 Thelonious Monk Miles Davis Kurt Elling
SOME INSTRUMENTS OF JAZZ Saxophone trumpet double-bass Piano banjo trombon Guitar clarinet Drums
ANNA RODRIGUEZ -She s a jazz singer who in the last years has become important in the music world of Tenerife. -She was born in London and moved to Tenerife when she was 3. She started singing in her school s choir and theatre. -She inherited jazz from her mother and has participed in a lot of jazz festivals. -Anna started singing as a professional singer in Israel in 1995. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcsdffvy0-w
ANDREA MOTIS -She was born in Barcelona and was formed musically, since 7 years, in the Escola Municipal of Sant Andreu, first like a trumpet player and saxofonista later. -In 2007,Sant Andreu began to collaborate with the jazz band directed by Joan Chamorro. She has taken part in numerous concerts of the Catalan circuit of jazz. -In 2010, with only 15 years, recorded a disc of qualified jazz called Joan Chamorro presents Andrea Motis -Recently it offers concerts in " Andrea Motis and Joan Chamorro Group ".
-It managed to being between 10 finalists of the prizes " Català of l'any 2011. But she rejected to continue forward, as his parents declared, because this candidacy was coming " in an inadequate stage of her life ". -With 17 years she passed a few tests for a artistic school called Oriole Martorell. -There, she stopped being formed professionally. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hscagovbpl4
ISABEL BERMEJO -Last year,on 3oth August this girl from Logroño went to Maastricht because she obtained a grant to study in the Music Academy the genre of jazz there. -She has performed in a duo in Actual Festival,in a jazz s trio in Munilla's festival, with bands of hard rock and with her group of heavy metal. -She created a project called Ysa, which defines it as risky and personal. The first pop video is 'At Twelve' an ode to the hope and to the good humor. -On the other hand, with Black Desert in 2013 she published 'The Beginning'. http://www.larioja.com/logrono/201502/24/entre-jazz-heavyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5f09exjdpy
Interview 1- En esta época donde el pop es el principal estilo musical, cómo te dio por cantar jazz y por qué? 2- Qué piensan tu familia y amigos sobre tu afición al jazz? 3- Cuáles son tus planes de futuro? Tienes pensado dedicarte a la música o tienes otros estudios o algo en mente? 4- Cuáles son tus cantantes de jazz favoritos? 5- Hemos leído que también te gusta el heavy metal. Cómo compaginas esos dos estilos? 6- Cómo ves el jazz en La Rioja? 7- Mi trabajo trata sobre chicas como tú que se dedican o tienen afición por el jazz y también he investigado sobre Anna Rodriguez y Andrea Motis, las conoces? qué piensas sobre ellas?
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