Jazz Concert Report

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On Monday, November, 2nd I attended to a unique and spectacular jazz concert presents by The Miami Jazz Cooperative. They invited the Brazilian master pianist and 2015 Latin Grammy nominee Antonio Adolfo to play his extraordinary music at The Open Stage Club. Antonio Adolfo is a world-class artist because his songs has gained extremely success inside and outside of his country, he has worked with some of the most illustrative Brazilian names and release more than 25 albums under his name. The atmosphere in this place was magnificent because I observed how the audience enjoyed the jazz music played by this talent artist. Also, this place was perfect for this concert because it’s small an intimate. I can say I was privileged that day because …show more content…
Antonio Adolfo was welcomed with a warm applause from every single person. He started the night with words of thanks to Miami Jazz Club for inviting him to participate in a very relaxing night. He introduced great musicians who played with him; Claudio Spiewak on guitar, Jamie Ousley on bass, Carlomagno Araya on drums and one special guest who announced after several songs. After a not long introduction, he started that quiet night with Brazilian jazz played by the greatest Brazilian composers from the beginning of the last century. The first two songs that he played were piano solos. The first song called Doce de Coco of Jacob Do Bandolim which means coconut. With this song I noticed the perfection, …show more content…
He is also a great teacher, musician, and the head of department of saxophone at University of Miami. They met years ago, but they never had the opportunity to play together, and that night was their first time playing Brazilian jazz. They played a beautiful and popular song called Easy to Love composed by Cole Porter. Antonio Adolfo is a leal admirer of Porter’s music. This song recalled the sound of what Adolfo used to play in different nightclubs few years ago. The saxophone player performed the song masterfully. I could notice that he is an excellent professional because he had a special connection with the audience when he started playing and he showed uniqueness playing this gorgeous instrument. The saxophone player had more colorfully tones than any other instrument and his pitch and rhythms were very accurate. I was extremely attracted to the saxophone because I had never seen one before so