{"id":111887,"date":"2017-12-15T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=111887"},"modified":"2017-12-20T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T17:03:12","slug":"bates-at-night-jazz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/15\/bates-at-night-jazz-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates at Night: &#8216;In the moment&#8217; with the Jazz Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The live and compelling sounds of jazz greeted a visitor to the Olin Arts Center on a Tuesday evening. It was the Bates Jazz Band in rehearsal for a Thursday night performance.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Marcus \u201918 of Newton, Mass., who has been playing piano since age 4, says playing jazz lets a musician tell a story more than other forms of music, because &#8220;a lot of it you\u2019re improvising, and it\u2019s whatever you\u2019re feeling or trying to express in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bates at Night: Jazz Band\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/247318213?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I really enjoy is finding that the kids get charged about improvising, about moving a little bit beyond their comfort zone,\u201d says Larry Williams, director of the Jazz Band. \u201cWe can prepare to play technically correct, but to play musically correct <em>and<\/em> to respond to what the music is calling for, you can\u2019t really practice that \u2014 you have to perform that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the excitement Thursday is going to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alto saxophonist Olivia Fried \u201919 of Solon, Ohio, played saxophone when she was younger and then quit in high school. She always regretted putting her instrument down, says this politics and Spanish major.\u00a0 \u201cWhen I came to college I wanted to try it again and see where I could take it a second time around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To play musically correct and to respond to what the music is calling for \u2014 you can\u2019t really practice that. You have to perform that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1016,"featured_media":112021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,133,11012],"tags":[11217,1448],"class_list":["post-111887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-creativity","category-student-life","tag-bates-at-night","tag-bates-jazz-band"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111887"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112025,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111887\/revisions\/112025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}