Dan and Claudia Zanes and friends is a Band that occupies a unique place in American music where different musical genres collide. Led by Grammy award winner Dan and his wife Claudia, the band has toured the world sharing their handmade 21st-century social music with enthusiastic crowds of fanatics who sing along to their tunes. Dan is a Haitian-American jazz music vocalists Claudia is a music therapist who mostly performs children’s music in highly interactive shows. The millennium stage, September 15th, 2019, was an interactive show that saw the performance of the duos greatest hits as well as some folk songs and classic blues from the Zanes house party.
The shows by the bad of Dan, Claudia, and friends are usually highly interactive as the audience is generally invited to sing along as well as dance to the rhythm. The atmospheres are often casual as well as an educational party as the Zanes go through there scripts to deliver a variety of homespun, artful, and sophisticated folksongs with traditions and a culture that does entertain not only the young population but also electrify the adult generations. The first example from the millennium stage performance is the invitation of the audience by Claudia Zane to sing along to their classic blues. The second example of instructiveness is when Dan and Claudia introduce their new songbook that includes selections from Night Train, which premiered back in 2017.
The band seems to focus more on their family music genre, which has seen the introduction of new songs that reconnect people to their traditional musical styles and their histories. Dan and Claudia Zane are regarded as the most eloquent advocates of family unions with their critically-acclaimed music having featured in platforms such as playhouse Disney, HBO Family and Sprout, and Nickelodeon. The artists have also collaborated with other artists such as Pauline Jean, as seen in the millennium stage performance. Also, from the video, it is evident that Dan and Claudia believe in sensory-friendly aspect if family entertainment and have committed to presenting their performances in that inclusive manner as shown.
The family music genre is friendly family entertainment that has achieved much of its acclamation from a continued tradition of merging the sophisticated folk songs with family-friendly lyrics. Dan and Claudia Zane have infused family-friendly messages with other kinds of traditions such as imaginative stories through Rock oriented arts. Besides, Dan and Claudia connect with the young people through there turnaround artworks as they believe in the power of art in changing the lives of the young populace through sharing of real-life stories as Claudia does in the performance at the millennium stage.
Overall, the September 15th millennium stage show by Dan and Claudia Zane was an interactive show that saw the performance of the band’s family genre songs that not only electrified the audience but was also educational, especially to the children. The group has released several albums that celebrate the children and have become an inspiration to many young people. The genre which fuses traditional folk music and the new lyrics of Jazz is interactive, especially to the enthusiastic crowds who are seen to sing along to the songs. Dan is a Grammy award winner as Claudia is a musical therapist, and together they have managed to fuse many musical traditions and cultures and came up with an artistic family genre that inspires as well as entertains its audience.
Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah
Scott Christian, a Tunde Adjuah, is an artist of many concepts with his signature stretching many musical genres and landscapes that allow him to create multiple forms of sounds, thought, culture, and language. In this case, Scott at one time is performing trap music, and at other points, he is doing Alt-rock and world music in a fusion style that collides ideas as well as identities hence making the art beautiful. Scott grew up in a traditional Afro-Orleanais musical style in the middle of world social complexities of racism and economic hardships that reflected its sensibilities that have made him expansive and not afraid of confronting the current political and social realities through his performances such as the jazz night in America.
During the Jazz night in America in New Orleans, Christian Scott, a Tunde Adjuah, performed several songs from the centennial trilogy. From the performance, the audiences are excited as they hum along to the variety of songs that bring a convergence of different cultures and ideas. Form the performance, and the audience can see the understanding of Christian Scott to his core. Scott grew up immersed in the Mardi Gras Indian traditions and rituals that distinguished him as a jazz trumpeter early in life when he was still a teenager. As seen in the video, Scott has shaped his artistic reality by creating a new form and genre of music called the stretch music, which is a hybrid of many styles and approaches.
Besides, in this performance of Jazz night America in the Jazz market of New Orleans, the stretch music is seen to electrify the crowds as they are entertained by the recently released album of the centennial trilogy. The collection has a series of performances that celebrate the first 100 years of the Jazz music since the early record jazz was released and the centennial trilogy came back again in 2017 and took up the jazz music space, disrupting and redefining the contemporary definition of the jazz art. In this regard, Scott made the 100th anniversary of record jazz a ceremony with his creativity in the centennial trilogy whose release quickly took up the music space.
Further, the centennial trilogy is a new concept in the Jazz world as the artist releases three stylistic and distinct albums within one year, and they are all focused on spanning and celebrating jazz music. Jazz began with releases by Dixie Jass called one step in 1917 in Scott Christian’s home town of New Orleans. The Scott centennial trilogy, as performed by Scott, embodies a lineage of creation of Jazz music drawing the line between the modern trap-influenced sounds that are familiar with the young generations and the celebratory swing sounds of the older Jazz age.
Overall, Christian Scott, a Tunde Adjuah through his trumpet style jazz, gives the audience remarkable different experience that fuses different musical genres in what he calls stretch music as it stretches the landscape of various types. An example of a performance during the Jazz festival in New Orleans is the Ruler Rebel, which is a celebratory rhythm that feels the air with traditional and historical styles that are known with the people of America and around the world. Form his works, Christian Scott can be equated to an architect of concepts such that through his styles, language, and cultural identities, he can create a collision of ideas in an artistic way that entertains its audience.