Street band
A street band , sometimes also called a marching band , is a small to medium-sized jazz band with (mostly) singly brass voices .
history
These bands follow the tradition of those street bands that were formed in the USA after the end of the civil war , when African-Americans (for example in Louisiana ) could buy the musical instruments of the army bands cheaply when the troops were disbanded and then found music bands. There they first played the common European music of the marching bands, which was also a basis for the development of their own Afro-American music forms, which were also adopted into the repertoire ( archaic jazz ). These orchestras performed at weddings , funerals , advertising parades and in theCarnival ( Second Line ), but also played to dance. Street bands have recently been playing increasingly at street and folk festivals. Small occupations that are mobile are popular.
Mark
The repertoire of street bands consists of spirituals , blues , songs , ragtime , marching music and old-time jazz . The Street Band (unlike most big bands ) plays everything by heart. So she can go through the streets and move around. The street bands of New Orleans , such as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band or the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, are particularly well known .
occupation
- Rhythm group : percussion (or bass drum , snare drum and cymbals ) and tuba (today, in some cases, also sousaphone )
- Woodwinds : saxophones , formerly also clarinets or flutes
- Brass : Trumpets and Trombones
literature
- Gerhard Kubik : African elements in jazz - jazz elements in popular music in Africa. In: Ders., To Understand African Music. Selected essays. Leipzig 1988, pp. 300-321