On Friday June 18, 2009 I went with my parents to a jazz concert. The perfomer was a saxophonist named Mindi Abair. The concert was in Newport Beach, California at Hyatt Regency. Hyatt Regency is the name of a fancy hotel. The concert was held outdoors. The time of the concert was at 8:00pm. This concert was part of the Wave's Summer Jazz Series held at Hyatt Regency. The Wave is a jazz radio station.
Abair was born May 31, 1969. She is 40 years old now. She is married. She is an American smooth saxophonist. She has a top-40 pop music background. She has performed with people such as Mandy Moore and the Backstreet Boys. She has appeared in their tours as well. Always and Never the Same is the name of her album that she released while on tours with these people. However, then in 2003, Abair decided to change to jazz and give it a try. This move turned out to be a good one. She has been nicknamed "the second coming of Candy Dulfer." Some of her songs are titled "Lucy's," "Flirt," and "Save the Last Dance". She performed all of these songs at the concert that I went to with my parents. "Save the Last Dance" takes its name from the movie with Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas in it. Abair will occasionally sing in some of her songs too. Evidence of this is her vocal cover version of the Eagle-Eye-Cherry hit "Save Tonight" on her debut album. She titled a song "True Blue" and released that in 2006. In addition to singing and playing the saxophone, Abair plays the flute and keyboard. However, she did not play these instruments at the concert. She just stuck to the saxophone and singing. About midway through the concert, though, Abair switched to another saxophone that she decided to play. Abair played with a total of 2 different saxophones throughout the entire concert. She sang in some of her songs too and others she just played the saxophone. She performed with a band that she tours with. There was a drummer and he played the drums and cymbals. There were a couple guys that played the guitar. One guy played an electric guitar. There was another guy that played the keyboard. Abair is also the host of a radio program. This radio program is called Chill with Mindi Abair. This program focuses on chill out music.
The concert was very relaxing. There was a cool breeze from the beach so it was actually pretty cold outside, but it still felt good. The beats were kind of repetitive sometimes in the songs but each song had a different beat and they were all catchy so they were interesting. There were some interesting dynamics in the songs. In some of them, the volume started off very soft, and then it slowly kept getting louder and louder and then reached its loudest point and then went back slowly down to being soft again and ended at its softest point which it began from. In other songs, the dynamics stayed the same which means the volume stayed the same and did not change. The texture of the songs varied as well. Sometimes the texture was thin. This means there was one single voice and that voice was Abair when she was singing solo in some of her songs. Other times the texture was thick because the other band members sang along with Abair at the same time. There was rhythm in every song. It varied as well. Sometimes the rhythm was repetitive. Other times the rhythm would pick up and be very fast and catch the audience's attention and get them out of their seats and start dancing and get in a happy mood. There was one moment in the concert when Abair let the drummer play solo and he showed off all of the different rhythms he could do. He would drum fast beats, slow beats, and in between and his dynamics of the rhythms would vary too so that is what kept it interesting to listen to. Abair would let each band member show off their instrument and use their different rhythms and dynamics with it so the audience could hear the differences of all the instruments. Abair did a really good job of keeping the concert filled with a lot of variety and not just her singing or using the saxophone all the time. All of the three basic forms were used in the concert: repetition, variation, and contrast.
Abair was born May 31, 1969. She is 40 years old now. She is married. She is an American smooth saxophonist. She has a top-40 pop music background. She has performed with people such as Mandy Moore and the Backstreet Boys. She has appeared in their tours as well. Always and Never the Same is the name of her album that she released while on tours with these people. However, then in 2003, Abair decided to change to jazz and give it a try. This move turned out to be a good one. She has been nicknamed "the second coming of Candy Dulfer." Some of her songs are titled "Lucy's," "Flirt," and "Save the Last Dance". She performed all of these songs at the concert that I went to with my parents. "Save the Last Dance" takes its name from the movie with Julia Stiles and Sean Patrick Thomas in it. Abair will occasionally sing in some of her songs too. Evidence of this is her vocal cover version of the Eagle-Eye-Cherry hit "Save Tonight" on her debut album. She titled a song "True Blue" and released that in 2006. In addition to singing and playing the saxophone, Abair plays the flute and keyboard. However, she did not play these instruments at the concert. She just stuck to the saxophone and singing. About midway through the concert, though, Abair switched to another saxophone that she decided to play. Abair played with a total of 2 different saxophones throughout the entire concert. She sang in some of her songs too and others she just played the saxophone. She performed with a band that she tours with. There was a drummer and he played the drums and cymbals. There were a couple guys that played the guitar. One guy played an electric guitar. There was another guy that played the keyboard. Abair is also the host of a radio program. This radio program is called Chill with Mindi Abair. This program focuses on chill out music.
The concert was very relaxing. There was a cool breeze from the beach so it was actually pretty cold outside, but it still felt good. The beats were kind of repetitive sometimes in the songs but each song had a different beat and they were all catchy so they were interesting. There were some interesting dynamics in the songs. In some of them, the volume started off very soft, and then it slowly kept getting louder and louder and then reached its loudest point and then went back slowly down to being soft again and ended at its softest point which it began from. In other songs, the dynamics stayed the same which means the volume stayed the same and did not change. The texture of the songs varied as well. Sometimes the texture was thin. This means there was one single voice and that voice was Abair when she was singing solo in some of her songs. Other times the texture was thick because the other band members sang along with Abair at the same time. There was rhythm in every song. It varied as well. Sometimes the rhythm was repetitive. Other times the rhythm would pick up and be very fast and catch the audience's attention and get them out of their seats and start dancing and get in a happy mood. There was one moment in the concert when Abair let the drummer play solo and he showed off all of the different rhythms he could do. He would drum fast beats, slow beats, and in between and his dynamics of the rhythms would vary too so that is what kept it interesting to listen to. Abair would let each band member show off their instrument and use their different rhythms and dynamics with it so the audience could hear the differences of all the instruments. Abair did a really good job of keeping the concert filled with a lot of variety and not just her singing or using the saxophone all the time. All of the three basic forms were used in the concert: repetition, variation, and contrast.
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