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Roots and Bones: An exploration in the correlation between jazz and reggae trombone playing. (2023)

Stylianos Michas-Englezos
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The purpose of this research is to explore deeper jazz and reggae trombone playing, find their common approaches, and finally apply them to my own music. To answer my questions, I divided this research in three parts. The first part is a journey through the history of jazz and reggae music separately, then their correlation and common history, and finally, the role of the trombone in this journey. In the second part, I am trying to gain an insight into the improvisational language by trombonists from both genres through transcription and analysis of their solos, in aspects of rhythm, harmony, technique and sound. As a result of these analyses, I tried to apply the approaches that I collected, into one of my own solos in a composition by Blend Mishkin, for an album we recorded in a reggae-jazz style. The third part focuses on composition for a jazz-reggae ensemble, presenting as an example one of my compositions in the research, explaining which approaches I selected to use for each instrument of the ensemble, while also presenting in the best way the function of the trombone as the leader of the band.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsTrombone, jazz, Reggae
date20/02/2023
published19/07/2023
last modified19/07/2023
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightStylianos Michas-Englezos
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1968025/1968026
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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