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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
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... lly redefined the way to improvise in a song,
and it is full of creative and unique musical
ideas, also called "licks." Famous people such as
the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the trumpeter
Dizzy Gillespie, and the drummer Max Roach created
bebop during the 40 s and the Postwar Decades,
which was definitely a big leap for jazz. This
style of jazz is less restricted, and
improvisation involved longer phrases, more
choruses, and more emotions. Modal jazz, also
called free jazz, has no rules at a...
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Swing Era Jazz Musicians
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Jazz Jazz is a type of music developed by black
Americans about 1900 and possessing an
identifiable history and describable stylistic
evolution. It is rooted in the mingled musical
traditions of American blacks. More black
musicians saw jazz for the first time a
profession. Since its beginnings jazz has branched
out into so many styles that no single description
fits all of them with total accuracy. Performers
of jazz improvise within the conventions of their
chosen style. Improvisation gave jaz...
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Words And Phrases Toni Morrison
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Jazz by Toni Morrison Toni Morrison, a brilliant
author of Jazz, has been immersed into a wonderful
world of music since her very early childhood,
which she spent in Lorain, Ohio. Morrisons mother,
Ramah Willis, was a true musician, who was a jazz
and opera singer and also played piano for a
silent movie theatre. Toni was growing up
listening to her mothers singing from Ella
Fitzgerald and the blues to sentimental Victorian
songs and arias from Carmen (Fuel 284). Who knows,
may be the years that...
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Toni Morrison Morrison Toni
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... reminds the Morrisons style of switching from
fragmented phrases to run-on, standard and
complete sentences. In the same manner, jazz music
can be different in its moods, structure, and
sounding. Moreover, it seems that the most
important idea of jazz is to surprise listeners,
to exceed their expectations, to be experimental,
rhythmic and harmonic. Morrison, having a very
good feeling for the requirements jazz poses on
all its imitators, tries to reach the same effect
by unusual, non-standar...
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African American Review Charlie Parker
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A Understanding Jazz Understanding Jazz A mellow
vibration lingers throughout a smoke-filled room,
as eloquent music escapes the callused fingers of
relaxed musicians. The tempo speeds up and grows
into a fusion of spontaneous and uneven chords,
exploding with rhythmic soul and life. The sound
of jazz embraces the room. Jazz is primarily a
dazzling, spellbinding, introspective beauty. The
musician and the listener find they can derive
meaning from the music. The music exists first,
and its meani...
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American Culture Art Form
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Jazz Dance Jazz dance is a form of personal
expression created and sustained though
improvisation has certain defining
characteristics, including improvisation,
isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that
radiates outward from the hips, and a propulsive
rhythm that gives a swinging quality to the
movement. -Bob Books Jazz is a crossbreed of north
American cultures, a music and dance of the slaves
of Africa, and old European Jigs and lit's,
Minstrel shows and presumably, Jazz music. Jazz
is...
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19 Th Century Types Of Music
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Jazz When it comes to music, most people dont say
they like it. People say they like heavy metal,
pop, rhythm and blues, or any other type of music,
since they have their own preference to what type
of music they like, not just enjoying the broad
area of music. One of those types of music which
many enjoy is jazz. Actually right now jazz is
really big and popular in Europe, andis rising in
its popularity in the USA through its many forms.
Jazz does have many forms, so many that some
people would...
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Form Of Music Style Of Writing
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The Relationship of Jazz Music and Jack Kerouac
There is a distinct relationship between jazz
music and the Beat Generation, particularly Jack
Kerouac. The writings of the beat generation were
often influenced by the different styles of jazz.
One certain style of jazz known as bop and bebop
were the most influential of all forms on the beat
generation. They were an improvised form of jazz
that has been traced back to originating in Harlem
in the early forties and fifties. A harmonically
and rhyt...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong
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Title: The origin and growth of Jazz music The
Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock
of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was
the sound of a new revolution. It was something
that America had never heard before. The time came
to be known the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald
named the era, Louis Armstrong dominated it, and
the 1929 crash of the stock market ended it. This
new music created a style filled with strong
rhythms and syncopation, a sound that was a memory
of the slav...
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Swing Era Cool Jazz
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The Rise of Jazz Throughout this paper I will take
you through some of the different styles and eras
of jazz. Such styles as be-bop, cool jazz,
dixieland, swing, and fusion emerged define jazz
music. Along with these different styles there
were important eras that molded jazz music, such
eras as the golden ages, and the swing era. Jazz
is a kind of music that has often been called the
only art form to originate in the United States.
The history of jazz began in the late 1800? s. The
music grew f...
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