Jazz Trio Performs at Lunch Hour Series
Victoria Cruz-Griffith
Issue date: 3/5/10 Section: Entertainment
The Carmen Carmonica Jazz Trio performed at the Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series on Wednesday, March 3, in the library concourse.
The trio featured Carmen Caramanica on guitar, Rick Compton on drums, and Cosmo Castellano on bass guitar. They played seven songs. The band has been playing together for 30 years. They played jazz, blues and funk songs during their concert.
The Trio's opener was "Give Me the Simple Life" by Ella Fitzgerald. Following their opener was "Midnight Blue" by Kenny Burrell. "Midnight Blue" is more of a blues song than a jazz tune.
Their third piece was "Charades," a jazz waltz. Following the waltz was the appropriately titled song "Cute". "Cute" featured a back and forth section between the drums and the guitars. Rick Compton was featured with a drum solo.
Their next song, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" by Fran Landesman, slowed the concert down. Caramanica featured an echo effect on their guitar. Compton used drum brushes instead of sticks in order to give a softer feel on the drum set.
The Trio picked up the beat a little with a funk song Chameleon". Syncopation is prominent on this song and there was an improvisation solo by Caramanica on guitar. The beat was kept by the bass instead of the drum set.
Their final song was "Straight, No Chaser". The song featured a bass solo by Castellano. Once again there was a back and forth between the guitars and the drums.
"Give Me the Simple Life", "Midnight Blue", and "Cute" the trio had never performed in concert before.
Carmen Caramanica said that most of the time they make up the arrangements to their songs as they go along.
"When we play a song it can sound like something one night and then sound completely different the next day," Caramanica said. "That's just the nature of jazz."
The next Lunch Hour Series performance will be the Society for New Music Excerpts from Persis Vehar's New Opera on Wednesday, March 10.
The trio featured Carmen Caramanica on guitar, Rick Compton on drums, and Cosmo Castellano on bass guitar. They played seven songs. The band has been playing together for 30 years. They played jazz, blues and funk songs during their concert.
The Trio's opener was "Give Me the Simple Life" by Ella Fitzgerald. Following their opener was "Midnight Blue" by Kenny Burrell. "Midnight Blue" is more of a blues song than a jazz tune.
Their third piece was "Charades," a jazz waltz. Following the waltz was the appropriately titled song "Cute". "Cute" featured a back and forth section between the drums and the guitars. Rick Compton was featured with a drum solo.
Their next song, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" by Fran Landesman, slowed the concert down. Caramanica featured an echo effect on their guitar. Compton used drum brushes instead of sticks in order to give a softer feel on the drum set.
The Trio picked up the beat a little with a funk song Chameleon". Syncopation is prominent on this song and there was an improvisation solo by Caramanica on guitar. The beat was kept by the bass instead of the drum set.
Their final song was "Straight, No Chaser". The song featured a bass solo by Castellano. Once again there was a back and forth between the guitars and the drums.
"Give Me the Simple Life", "Midnight Blue", and "Cute" the trio had never performed in concert before.
Carmen Caramanica said that most of the time they make up the arrangements to their songs as they go along.
"When we play a song it can sound like something one night and then sound completely different the next day," Caramanica said. "That's just the nature of jazz."
The next Lunch Hour Series performance will be the Society for New Music Excerpts from Persis Vehar's New Opera on Wednesday, March 10.
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posted 3/16/10 @ 10:21 AM EST
Oh, I think the life-preformances of jazz-projects are unforgettable.
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