I attended the Jazz Concert on March 18, 2004. The bands that performed were the GCC Jazz Band and Friday At 2PM. The opening band was the GCC Jazz Band followed by "Friday At 2PM." Both had an exceptional performance, especially the "Friday At 2 PM" group. Each band performed a famous piece written by legends like "Dizzy Gillespie" and Stan Getz. The GCC band performed a total of three pieces and "Friday At 2PM" performed two.
             The group was a sextet, with a drum set, bass, guitar, soprano saxophone, piano, and a trumpet as the lead. The opening piece performed by the GCC band was the beginning of the concert. It was not introduced, the band went right into playing it, therefore I did not know the name of it, but I had an opportunity to hear it and therefore I can elaborate on it to give some kind of description on how it sounded. This piece started out at a vivace tempo with somewhere between mezzo forte and forte dynamics. The theme I started out with the whole band playing the melody for the opening of the piece. The saxophone performed the modulation piece between the trumpet solo and the guitar which was the second solo handed down. After the second solo, the theme was performed as a call and response between the trumpet and the soprano sax. The next theme was performed by the bass doing a solo then back to the trumpet & sax doing a melodic repetition of the first theme and then performing the closing. The drums had the last solo piece which concluded the music with a coda.
             This piece was performed by the GCC band as their last piece, "Night in Tunisia", originally written and performed by famous trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie. Theme I went right into the solo performed by the trumpet. This solo was the melody and the theme of this piece of music unlike the first one where the opening theme was performed by the whole band playing a melody. This was a low pitch melody with an andante tempo and a mezzo forte dynamics. It sou...