jazz
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Last Monday, October 20th, I attended a jazz performance at Lunaria, a restaurant as well as a jazz club on Santa Monica Blvd. The Ben Adamson and Isaac Darche Jazz Sextet performed this night. They are also called the UCLA Jazz Band but the band actually included both UCLA students and students from other schools. The performers were Ben Adamson on the trumpet, a guest player Kamasi Washington on the alto saxophone, Cameron Graves on the piano, John Paul Ronald on the bass, and Isaac Ceccarelli on the percussion. The band played for about three hours which also included a brief intermission. They performed about 7 different pieces all together. Some of the songs played were "Willie Jones the 3rd," Stella by Starlight," "Giant Steps," "Footprints," and "There is No Greater Love." Some of these pieces were familiar to me but most of them were new to me as well. The performance, I felt, seemed to fall mostly under cool jazz or one of some other types of the jazz styles developed within the last half of the 20th century. I liked listening to this jazz performance for that it wasn't solely restricted what was discussed in class so far, because I also enjoy the sounds of modern jazz as well...