{"id":644,"date":"2014-08-25T19:46:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T19:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=644"},"modified":"2024-05-22T20:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:03:54","slug":"flat-sousa-jamming-smithsonian-jazz-masterworks-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2014\/08\/25\/flat-sousa-jamming-smithsonian-jazz-masterworks-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat Sousa Jamming with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4349\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-the-Smithsonian-Jazz-Masterworks-Orchestra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4349\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-the-Smithsonian-Jazz-Masterworks-Orchestra-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-the-Smithsonian-Jazz-Masterworks-Orchestra-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Flat-Sousa-with-the-Smithsonian-Jazz-Masterworks-Orchestra.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Nalker (piano), Leigh Pilzer (baritone sax), Jennifer Krupa (trombone), James King (bass), and Ken Kimery (drummer and executive director) with Flat Sousa, August 14, 2014 in Flag Hall at National Museum of American History.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flat Sousa joined the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra at the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Museum of American History on August 14 during a brief visit to his home town of Washington, DC to participate in the Society of American Archivists annual meeting.\u00a0 The March King, creator of\u00a0<em>Stars and Stripes Forever<\/em>, and his jazz colleagues took an opportune\u00a0 moment to be photographed in the museum&#8217;s Flag Hall which serves as the home of the Star Spangled Banner.\u00a0\u00a0 While few today would ever consider Sousa a jazz musician, the June 30, 1925 headline of New Jersey\u2019s <em>Trenton Times<\/em> proclaimed, \u201cJazz Always Here Says Bandmaster,\u201d as the Sousa Band was about to premiere Sousa\u2019s latest music fantasy, <em>Jazz America<\/em>. The syncopated rhythms and melodies of ragtime and New Orleans\u2019 Creole bands were familiar to Sousa, but he had not considered using these types of novelty tunes as part of his band\u2019s regular programming until the 1920s when American audiences began to favor jazz\u2019s \u201chotter\u201d swinging melodies over the refined sounds of the Sousa concert band.\u00a0\u00a0 After the band\u2019s first performance of <em>Jazz America<\/em>, the piece went through several revisions but was played infrequently for the remainder of the band\u2019s 1925 tour. However it was played numerous times during the Band\u2019s 1925 and 1926 Willow Grove concert series. After the 1926 performances there is no record that the work was played again by the band, and the arrangement was never published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flat Sousa joined the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra at the Smithsonian Institution&#8217;s National Museum of American History on August 14 during a brief visit to his home town of Washington, DC to participate in the Society of American Archivists annual meeting.\u00a0 The March King, creator of\u00a0Stars and Stripes Forever, and his jazz colleagues took an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4715,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions\/4715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}