The DCMA's Siti Binti Said Hall rocked as 4 guest musicians from
Denmark and Poland involved all DCMA students, teachers and
visitors in a thrilling and multi layered improvised musical
'jam' session.
The visiting musicians: Carl Winther on keyboard, Martin Ruhl on
double bass, Radek Wosko on drums and Tomas Ulak on tenor
sax had been invited to perform in Zanzibar and took the time to
come to the DCMA to offer a workshop, performance and jam
session for musicians, students and visitors on the island.
These highly accomplished musicians treated us to some of their
own compositions - contemporary Jazz at it's finest, and interspersed
the performance with explanations and detailed demonstrations to
show the Zanzibar musicians how Jazz is composed and how improvisation
weaves in and around the central melody and theme of a
composition.
The audience asked many questions which were generously and
thoroughly answered, and these answers were followed by musical
demonstrations,
enabled the Zanzibar musicians to gain a clear understanding of
the complexity of layers which form a jazz composition.
The audience were clearly pleased and satisfied with the whole
event and delighted to be involved in a wonderful and rousing improvised
jazz session.
Thanks go to Carl, Tomas, Radek and Martin for an electrifying and
educational couple of hours of wonderful music.