Sax in jazz

In the Sax community there is the classical and the Jazz side of the music where in the classical the objective it to get as technical as possible and play all really hard runs fast and clean. In jazz that is not the case fore it has a different objective.

Jazz was a extremely new thing when it cam out in the early twenties from Harlem where the Jazz kings came to rule like “The Bird” and Loui Armstrong. As jazz was evolving the trend became that more instruments were being introduced like the Sax and Trombone but as time went on further we saw increasing numbers of these numbers. Sax was having a large  part in the evolution of jazz when it was being played by Charlie Parker a jazz legend who had mastered not only the art of jazz but the difficult task of applying that knowledge to the sax.

As time went on the sax acquired a set of music trends that relates to a lager set of music. The sax was getting the fast runs and sometimes support to the brass section. The brass section started to get parts that had lots of hits and power chords as the

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Solo on the Sax

sax’s played complicated runs and Sax soil’s. A sax soli is a part in the music where the hole sax section the Alto Soprano Tenor and Bari have a solo where the rest of the band is supporting them as if supporting a soloist. The sax is going to have a permanent spot in jazz culture as it is assimilated with the music it is made for. The sax is my favorite instrument because to me it is the most expressive of all the instruments i play in band. Jazz is also one of the things i love about the sax because it is a kind of music that is new and it is very creative and expressive because of its good feel and loud stature compared to the rest of the musics.

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