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Count Basie Bob Marley
1,580 wordsFor my week posing as professor for music history 10, I would like to discuss the meaning of and history leading up to the mid 90 s ska selection by Less Than Jake: Sugar in Your Gas Tank. Sugar in Your Gas Tank was released on Less Than Jakes 1996 album on Capitol records: Losing Streak. Although they had actually had many previous releases on independent labels, this was Less than Jakes first major label record. Previously only having an underground Indy following, being picked up by a major l...
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Louis Armstrong Big Band
563 wordsLOUIS ARMSTRONG TIMELINE Louis Armstrong's was born Aug. 4, 1901. He grew up in New Orleans and received his first music instruction in 1913 in a children's home. By 1915 he was sitting in with local bands. He went to Chicago to join King Oliver in 1922 and made his first records with Oliver the the next April ("Chimes Blues"). Though Chicago would be his base for the next 12 years, he went to New York for the first time in September 1924 to join Fletcher Henderson's band and record with various...
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Berry Gordy Father Of The Motown Sound
1,231 wordsBerry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20 's and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories, mainly the big four automotive plants that like, Chrysler, Ford, Chevrolet, and General Motors. Berry and Bertha Gord...
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Avant Garde Big Band
624 wordsBreakthroughs in American Jazz The backdrop was New Orleans in the late 19 th century, a growing port city with a diverse population of African Americans, whites, displaced French settlers, and immigrants from the West Indies and South America. This hodgepodge of cultures mixed European influenced popular music, such as ragtime, with tradition African music creating the hybrid musical style known as jazz. Jazz, bold and beautiful, in its purest sense demands high instrumentation mastery, creativ...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Music
681 wordsWhat is Jazz? According to the dictionary, jazz is defined as, ? A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19 th century? (? Jazz? 232). But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating in the United States (? History 101? 2). America was home to immigrants from all over Europe and beyond who wished to build a new life, or just needed to escape from the old. These people, ofte...
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Avant Garde Dizzy Gillespie
2,137 wordsJazz, John Coltrane John Coltrane Jazz, taking its roots in African American folk music, has evolved, metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last century to become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music, it places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of relying on a written score, the musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years, there is almost always a single pers...
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Duke Ellington Jazz Musician
1,717 wordsThe Life of a Pioneer One of the greatest jazz composers that has ever lived is, arguably, Duke Ellington. Born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington D. C. in 1899. By the age of 17 was playing professionally. In 1923 he moved to New York City where he started recruiting people for his orchestra. He started off with an average jazz band of ten people but through the thirties and forties that number greatly expanded. He started playing in small nightclubs, theaters, and on the radio. His biggest...
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Sing Sing Ive Heard
1,048 wordsb. March 15, 1916, Albany, Georgia, USA. d. July 5, 1983, Las Vegas. Harry James father Everette James, was a trumpeter and led a circus band with the Mighty Haag Circus. His mother Maybelle, was a trapeze artist with the circus. Harry began playing the drums when he was four and began playing trumpet when he was eight. He joined the circus band the next year and was leading it by the time he was twelve. Then their family moved to Beaumont Texas, and at 15 Harry James began playing in local danc...
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Louis Armstrong Orleans Jazz
302 words2. List and briefly describe 4 important characteristics of the Blues -blue notes, a 12 note scale that is used in the blues that often combines notes in direct correlation to each other such as B and B flat. -improvisation, keeping the original melody but creating a new musical tone to the piece. -interpretation, in this sense one is not required to keep either the harmony or melody in a piece and the sound is left up to those playing it. -syncopation, the stressing of a weak or off beat to giv...
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19 Th Century Types Of Music
2,786 wordsJazz 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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Rhythm And Blues Rock And Roll
2,300 wordsPaul Whiteman (1890 - 1967) = a classically trained violinist and violist who adored jazz but lacked the gift to emulate the uninhibited improvisations of the jazz musicians he admired, formed a dance band in the early twenties that played jazzy arrangements of popular and even classical melodies. Blues = a black vocal folk music, began as vocal (largely instrumental). Classical blues = based on 3 lines of text. Wild wame don? t do the blues. Urban Blues = blues pieces written for publication an...
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Louis Armstrong Big Band
381 wordsLouis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential artists of the century. Armstrong influenced trumpeters as well as all jazz music, and a wide range of popular music. He is best known for helping to pioneer a style known as swing, after which sprouted rhythm-and-blues (R&# 038; B) music. He established the expressive possibilities of the young art form of jazz and set fundamental standards for future artists. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Armstrong grew up in poverty and did not...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
3,213 wordsIn this research paper I will explore the origins and attempt to construct a loose temporal graph of the musical phenomenon known commonly as swing jazz. From its roots and derivative styles, I hope to prove that the assimilation of the black or Afro-American jazz music into the mainstream white culture of the early 20 th century was the cause of the sharp rise in the popularity of swing jazz. This boom of good will towards what could have only been known as black or Negro music was in itself a ...
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