Sexet from Illinois University at Memorial Union Rathskeller

This concert was held in the Memorial Union Rathskeller on October 10th, 2006, and was part of the Friday afternoon Jazz series. The sextet which consisted of a steel drummer, keyboard, drums, bongo, a bass and a guitar. The steel drum player was phenomenal and you could tell he really knew what he was doing. He played some incredible solo's that sounded very exotic coming from a steel drum. I thought the keyboard player was very good to showed alot of talent when the band let him loose to improvise. It seems during jazz concerts, there is always time for each person in the band to have their time to shine and play a solo, my least favorite was the bongo solo. There are only so many things you can do with two bongo's and this particular bongo solo went on for at least 10 minutes, and seemed to keep droning on aimlessly, with no end in sight. But the spotlight was easily on the steel drum player, as he was able to move the melody up and down seamlessly and really showed his talent when he was improvising.

Technorati Tags: Sexet, from, Illinois, University, at, Memorial, Union, Rathskeller,