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Avant Garde Grove Dictionary
1,051 words... ed at the Golden Gate Ballroom, the Savoy, and the Apollo Theater. His dance band also toured some, but did not last long. Hawk resumed working in the small group genre in ' 41. The next two years he devoted to playing mostly in Chicago and the Midwest until retuning to New York in ' 43. Between the demise of his dance band in ' 40 and the three years following, Hawkins appeared in only one commercial recording session. However, in the thirteen months from December, 1943 and the end of ' 44,...
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2,031 wordsAbstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece New Rhumba, showed how Davis was using his technical ability to create an impressive solo, but was also leaning tow...
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1,110 words... f music including popular music and the blues. It was has changed over the years and has many different sub-styles, such as Dixieland, swing, bebop, Afro- Cuban, cool, free, jazz, and fusion. In jazz the performers often improvises to create new or different sounds that add to the emotional expression of the song. Jazz musicians create their own version of the melody while they all know, and then they turn improvising around that tune. Sometimes jazz performers make up a complete new melody ...
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Mississippi River Jazz Music
827 wordsQuincy Troupe is world-renowned for his love of jazz music and for his poetry, which reflects that love. The rhythm and meter of his poems lend themselves easily to live readings, and have a very solid musical quality about them, reminiscent of the very songs that he has listened to his whole life. In his Snake-back Solo 2, he references several famous Jazz artists, including Louis Satchmo Armstrong and Miles Davis, two of the most famous jazz artists in history. The structure of this poem, when...
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1,217 words... have to be used to describe this, the Jazz age. Since I think Jazz is serious thing, I must be serious in my choice of song titles. 9 Thus one can see the purpose of Ellington's music is to describe the era in which he lives in, very similar to the Classical era composers and the Romantic era composers. In response to the enjoyably of Ellington's music, I admit that Ellington's music has melody in which patrons danced to, but the dance-ability of the music is not inherent but rather an inter...
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Duke Ellington An American Legacy
1,872 wordsWhere would music be had it not been for the men that stepped before him. The Motzarts and Beethoven's, who wrote the music that today is known as the classics. These men were naturals in their own right, but these people wrote their music in the 17 th and 18 th century. Many people don't realize all of the changes that music had to go through between that period of music and the present day. One such musician stands alone at the top as one of the movers and innovators of the 20 th century. He i...
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772 wordsAfter reading the article on jazz dance, I had found out a number of interesting things that I hadnt known before. I thought it was a dance form that was fairly new, starting in the early 1900 s. I then found out that it actually pre-dates all the way back to the seventeenth century. I also thought income from the United States, when it really originated in Africa and was brought here by the slaves. The dancing and drumming was such a part of their lives; it was eventually continued by the slave...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,519 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,530 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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Rock And Roll Chord Progression
2,559 wordsJoseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly among the Wolof and Watusi. p. 233) The word blue has been associated with the idea of melancholia...
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Chord Progression Blues Singers
2,623 wordsA Brief Blues Music Arts: A Brief History of the Blues 2000 - 06 - 30 A Brief History of the Blues Joseph Machlis says that the blues is a native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. (p. 578) In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. (Although Alan Lomax cites some examples of very similar songs having been found in Northwest Africa, particularly...
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Dave Matthews Band Boston Globe
2,498 wordsSenior Project Dave Matthews Band is a unique, musically gifted band. Its combination of sounds of folk, jazz, rock, world beat, and reggae give it its originality and musicality that extends the bounds of music. The five members of the band: Dave Matthews, Boyd Tinsley, Le Roi Moore, Stefan Lessard, and Carter Beauford, provide a blend of influences that create this originality. It s an interracial music group compromising of three blacks, and two white, and an age difference of over 20 years b...
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Duke Ellington Grove Dictionary
1,864 wordsDuke Ellington: An American Legacy Where would music be had it not been for the men that stepped before him. The Motzarts and Beethoven's, who wrote the music that today is known as the classics. These men were naturals in their own right, but these people wrote their music in the 17 th and 18 th century. Many people dont realize all of the changes that music had to go through between that period of music and the present day. One such musician stands alone at the top as one of the movers and inn...
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Wanted To Find Duke Ellington
1,035 wordsDuke Ellington In a time when music was going through a transformation from a ragtime style to a jazz-blues fusion, Duke Ellington was there to add his own style. There may have been many more decorated composers and musicians, but Duke Ellington revolutionized the way music was written, and in the eyes of many, has earned the title of being the great American Composer. (Williams, 51) Brought up in a modest environment, Ellington never finished high school but instead went on the road to begin h...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
1,678 wordsDuke Duke Ellington Duke Ellington Duke Ellington's pre-eminence in jazz is not only because of the very high aesthetic standard of his output and not simply due to his remarkable abilities as a pianist, composer and bandleader, but also to the fact that he has extended the boundaries of jazz more than any other musician, without abandoning the true essence of the music. Perhaps no other American musician left such a massive and challenging legacy in composition and performance. Edward Kennedy D...
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1,513 wordsThe Harlem Renaissance was an era full of life, excitement, and activity. The world in all aspects was in gradual recovery from the depression. The world of music was expanding, sharing it s enthusiasm throughout the world. The evolution of jazz aroused the curiosity of the nation. As Blacks received their freedom, they were able to express themselves as talented individuals. Certain blacks contributed immensely to the era of jazz, for example, Duke Ellington. Ellington entered a brand-new, exci...
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Playing The Trumpet Jazz Trumpeter Music
690 wordsPurpose: By the end of the speech I hope you all will understand the joys and pains of playing jazz on the trumpet. Introduction: (turn off lights) Imagine its night time in New York City. You head over to the village vanguard to see the hottest players in jazz, out do each other on stage. You enter the club it seats about fifty but there s more like 80 all wanting the same thing, to hear John Coltranes sextet perform. (play Lazy Bird up to 1: 40). The recording you just heard was from the John ...
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Louis Armstrong Jazz Musician
1,201 wordsLouis Armstrong Heroes are needed in the world to give people something to look up to, someone to be like. Louis Armstrong over came such adversities as poverty, a lack of good education, and racism to become one of the greatest jazz player not just of the 1920 s but of the 20 th century. Armstrong was one of the creators of Jazz and was one of the most popular entertainers from the 1920 s. Starting out at a young age he never knew that one day he would be such a popular jazz player and also not...
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R 038 B North Carolina
1,176 wordsNew Orleans Jazz Band: Dag They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into a crowded dive at 1: 00 AM, where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite, and the sweat flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. Theres a word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot, you jus...
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