Who: Anna Villanova a Seattle jazz singer who is also a self-proclaimed poet, who was born in South America, and traveled Europe and found herself in Seattle singing jazz. She was accompanied by a piano player (John Powell), a saxophone player (unknown), and a double bass player (Brian Hamlin).
What: A concert originally supposed to be an outdoor performance with the intent of enjoying jazz music in an outdoor setting where you can bring chairs and have a picnic, hence the title Jazz Under the Stars, but, because of bad air quality, due to the fires in Canada the venue was change to indoors. Before the performance, Anna Villanova stated, “That she loved poetry and beautifully written lyrics” and she also apologized for the more formal setting…show more content… In respects to the music that was performed that evening it was astonishing to hear jazz music in person, I felt the power of music for the first time in that setting it was different because all the music I have listened to thus far in person was all amplified by electricity and what I felt during this performance was very interesting to experience for the first time. For example, when the singer with an alto range would mimic the instruments using her voice sing those notes and the instrument would reply back at her like they were conversing, was amazing, I enjoyed every bit of it.
Moreover, all 18 songs she had selected contained at least one or two instrumental solo’s that resonated such range either it ascended in their register or descended and her voice would follow in key. The melody I felt was disjunct as it made many leaps in every song the piano was especially interesting because, I can hear his right hand play one melody and the other playing another melody something different from the first melody. The saxophone and double bass when they played a duet or solo, the other instruments will accompany the solo instrument which gave a very powerful performance and every time they finished everyone applauded immediately. I felt that a lot of the songs that were performed that night was chromatic, because, I heard many leaps in the melody which I think gave the music its lively and bluesy
