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The music at the N'Awlins Gumbo Kings event on Friday 8:00 p.m., January 22nd was truly a night of relaxing swinging jazzy music. It took place in the Success Center Auditorium with good acoustics. The audience consisted of mainly seniors who are out and about for social regular gatherings, students who are taking this music class. There were some outliers, but the age dividing line was apparent. The performers were suited up with all black attire with a casual laidback approach into speaking to the crowd and playing their pieces of work. The supporting instruments were arranged so that the full drum set was placed in the back left, while the base was in the back center, and keyboard in the back right. At the foreground the trombone was in the left, trumpet in the center and a guy with a hat playing the Clarinet. Their second song, like the majority of their music, was syncopated. It had a duple meter and simple meter as some of their other songs. This second piece was an arrangement of soloing instrumentation showing each musician’s character and the unique sounds that each instrument had to offer to the group. It was mainly homophonic, with a monophonic section with the clarinet. The trumpet took the melody in the beginning, then the trombone came in with the melody, then the clarinet did a complete solo, and they all came back together in the end for a larger finish. Between the first two songs there was almost no pause, but after the second song they completely stopped and had the drummer count off for the next piece. The music had a great beat with well coordinated singing in some of the other pieces. This is a type of Art Music, which I enjoyed and hope others can enjoy in the future.