Jakarta Concert Report Assignment: Java Jazz Festival 2014

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I must say that the live concert at Java Jazz Festival 2014 held at the Jakarta international on 2nd March at D1 Hall is one that will ever be my best live concerts. The eve of this day, I was just bored at home doing some work when I had the sounds of sweet guitars around my place. By good luck, the concert was hosted just a few distances from my place. I could not hesitate to join the festival. On arrival, I found the D1 hall packed with over 1000 people celebrating the good jazz music.
The Java Jazz Festival thematically played tribute jazz to the late George Duke. George Duke was a known American Musician, a pioneer of his time and a composer of the Jazz music. The history of George illustrates a committed artist and a stage Performa. The tribute was of the essence because many of his fun loved Duke. Prominently, Duke was known for his albums of R&BS genre. Personally, Duke was my number one favorite jazz player during his time. Many people who came to pay tribute from the background attested to this fact. The hall was lit with different lighting systems including the yellow opal lights roofed in rows.
There were ten artists in attendance who are full-time Jazz players included Larry Kimpel, Gorden Campbell, Adam Hawley, Indra Lesmana, Dira Sugandhi, Jeff Lorber, Chuck Loeb, Maurice Brown, Tom Braxton, & Tony Momrelle. These artists took to stage the full mix of Dukes pieces of music. The stage set up comprised of blues and Jazz instruments including the basic drums such as high hats, crash symbols, kick drums, and snares located at the right side of the stage. The platform was balanced with several microphones set before the singer Larry. Various designs of the keyboard such as Yamaha were used to play jazz beats. At the center of the stage was one microphone pitched for the soloists who alternated during the play. Occasionally, this was a big band performance with proper arrangement of the instruments.
The lead artist who had an insight of the songs was Larry Kimpel and the drummer Golden Campbell. The forms of music played in this concert were not original songs. They were the old songs done by Duke during his time. In memories of the late Duke, Larry and Golden had an opportunity to play nearly eight CDs of Dukes album. During the performance, Larry became so emotional in his singing because this was his first time doing Dukes songs in a live performance. It was a weird feeling for him since he had no good mastery of the songs. Evidently, this scenario is revealed when he directly reads the lyrics on the stand right before him though he seems to have missed the lines.
In the opening session for singing, Larry involves the crowd in singing Duke’s favorites stage introductory sound "oooh oooh." This was the best moment of the concert because I felt a part of the tribu...