Jazz Combo

Tonight, I went to see Dennis and Chih-yu's jazz combo concert. Their group played a forty-five minute long set with no breaks, stringing together seven songs. One pretty cool thing they did was to sandwich one song inside another - so they played half of a song, transitioned to a new song and played that in its entirety, and then played the other half of the first song. The two songs were different, but they complimented each other. Anyway, that's one example of the "transformation" in musical improv that Donal always talks about. I particularly enjoyed the song "Body and Soul" - they took it slightly faster and more upbeat than I've heard on youtube versions, and Chih-yu sang it gorgeously.