With the knowledge from my past experiences of education in music and professional experience of performing jazz vocally, I have always been interested in how I can challenge my role as a vocalist in a jazz ensemble. When studying singing at Complete Vocal Institute in Copenhagen, I gained large perceptions regarding my voice and my creative flow within the music. These new perspectives made me discover what I was capable of achieving with my voice, which I rarely see jazz vocalists do. I find it interesting to analyse what other jazz musicians do when they create, to be perceived as free and undemanding but still very advanced musically and captivating for the listeners. Another reason why I wanted to shed some light on this topic is that I often hear other jazz students question whether we who are born in Scandinavia really are able to reach the same level of expression and improvisational flow as American jazz musicians.These doubts trigger me, and make me want to prove that everyone can accomplish any kind of expression if we only have the right tools for it. And there is still this thought in my mind when I see musicians such as saxophonists, guitarists, and pianists, among others, get inspired by each other and try other people’s ideas, why I almost never see the same playfulness and thirst for musical knowledge in singers? I wonder in my mind: Why?
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ltu-92722 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Nordin, Helena |
| Publisher | Luleå tekniska universitet, Musik, medier och teater, Helena Nordin |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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