Doctor Jazz by Jelly Roll Morton -
The song begins with an solo that from what I can tell is most likely a Saxophone. Brass comes in as well as a bass and piano to start the first "A" section of the tune. From what I can tell I would say the tune is about 100 bpm. The Sax starts the "B" part which sounds literally amazing. The sax sounds so unique I almost thought for a minute that it was a man singing. It tricked me which I thought was really cool! A man starts singing through what im guessing would be the "A" part repeating? There is another solo at the end which I'm confused with because I have no idea if it would be considered an Outro or "C" a whole new part? The bass line is very easy to pick out and definitely is the heartbeat of the song! It's what I found myself tapping my foot to throughout. The piano sounds like it's almost soloing at times to accompany the sax. After about my 6th listen I heard a Guitar which I thought was almost hiding. All the instruments blend so well together it's beautiful. It seems as if almost every person in the band had a solo! Maybe that's why I got so confused with the whole "ABAA" pattern ideas. The tune ends with a bang kind of realeasing a little tension in your big toe from tapping your foot the whole song! :) I really hope I can get better at these critical listenings I feel like I im trying too hard and the answers to being good at this are right in front of my eyes. Can't wait till the next one to see if this weeks classes help me out!
Good job, though I don't know your name. Make sure that it appears somewhere on the blog. Perhaps we can listen to this Dixieland tune in class. Good start.
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