Im sure that in 40 years, Ill have some salient memories about my younger years. One of them testament definitely be the jazz concert I attended that Thursday night on the Fez, located at 380 Lafayette St, right under the time Café. That as any other Thursday night, the center of management was the famous Mingus Big Band, whose name keeps alive a great, and a little controversial jazz composer, Charles Mingus.
When I got there, the musicians were rehearsing, and lecture about the performance. All of them contend with their instruments, making sure that they will not cause any problem during the feared live act. The tidy sum was constituted of 12 artists who seemed to struggle trying to fit in that little platform. The wind instruments were located at the front of the band, peaceful by: a sea bassoon, a flute, a trumpet, a var. saxophone, an alto saxophone, and even a soprano saxophone. Behind them, a French horn, a trombone and a bass saxophone. A membranophone kit with cymbals was the only percussion instrument that played in the band. The piano represented the keyboard family while a double bass and an electrical guitar represented the stringed instruments.
The band started with a ballad called twelve noon night. The protagonist of this segment was the French horn who played a solo.
The bass and the trombone followed the solo in the background. The second piece, called dominate featured the electrical guitar and the bassoon. Both of them performed the same melody in their solos. In the first solo the melody was mellow and black while in the second, it got faster and more joyful. This musical piece seemed to accelerate as time passed by. I still potbelly remember the ecstatic and cheering crowd when the piece was over. The terzetto piece,
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