The Nuyorican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble stated a little later than the schedule because of the delay of a prior performance. After he introduced all the members of the band to the audience the leader, Americo Casiano JR. started the performance with poets, he was using metaphor and simile a lot as if he was a story teller.
At the beginning of the performance, I was so impressed by a strange music instrument that looked like a traditional music instrument of somewhere. It looked like nothing but sounded by shaking and tapping at the bottom of it with singing “mamabuela”. There was especially beautiful harmonious sound between the drum and a keyboard, soft melody from the keyboard played by Edy Martinez, lively melody played by Gene Golden plus, beautiful sound from the bass and clarinet, played by Ray Martinez and Dave Valentin. Even though a lot of the audiences were required to come to the little theater by their professors, they did look like enjoying the live jazz music. One of the audiences, Emma Jean, who majoring in accounting, said “ It was even better than I expected, I felt like I was in the jazz bar in somewhere Manhattan”. The band first expressed what they want to represent by reciting the poets like the narrative of the beginning of music and then they represented it through the harmonious music they played.
There was no enough publicity about the concert. Before I came here, I had no idea and didn’t expected it was beautiful like this, because I thought it would be typical Latino music just like we listened anywhere on the street. It needs enough publicity around school.
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