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Type Of Music Ten Minutes
1,216 wordsThe latest concert that I attended was the NEIU Jazz Ensemble. It was held on October 28 th, 1997 in the NEIU auditorium. This was my first time attending a Jazz concert. Therefore, I didnt know what kind of music to expect or any music that I was familiar to. This concert was a new experience for me. It was far different from a rock concert held in some big venue. The purpose of this concert was to give people a taste of the NEIU Jazz Ensemble. The heritage or the background of this concert was...
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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
1,424 words... 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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Miles' Tone Jazz Music
561 wordsEven in the beginning he was already miles ahead. It's very evident that Miles knew and lived by that old axiom if it's named, then it's outmoded. Miles Dewey Davis was born May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois and grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records and for his 13 th birthday was given his first trumpet. By age 16, Miles was playing professionally and received his first real taste of what playing jazz was like when Billy Eckstine's band was traveling through and needed to replace a si...
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Kid Nobody Could Handle George Is Determined Music
728 wordsIn the short story, The Kid Nobody Could Handle, by Kurt Vonnegut, the main character of the story is George Helmholtz. He lives in a small town with his wife, is the head of the music department at the local high school and the director of the band. He is the most important person in the story because he is the only one, not psychiatrists, and foster parents, to make a difference in Jims life. Throughout the story, George is determined and hopeful, lonely, and fixated with the beauty of music. ...
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Le Bret De Guiche
1,206 wordsCyrano tries to be more than he is. From Cyrano's first scene to his last the reader gets an impression that Cyrano is trying to be more than he is, and trying to do more than he can. Even though, in the long run he ends up doing these things well, the reader still gets an impression that hes trying to boast about his abilities and, blow his own trumpet. Although many times the reader gets an impression that he isnt doing it on purpose and thats just his character, many of his other actions are ...
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Jazz Musicians Louis Armstrong
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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Concert Review Of Punk Band Nofx
830 wordsOn November 26 th I went to the Stone Pony in New York to see another of my favorite bands, NOFX. NOFX is a punk-ska band. Punk meaning fast paced drumbeats and quick singing and ska meaning a song played with trumpets. The band members are Fat Mike (vocals, bass), El Here (guitar, trumpet, vocals), Eric Melvin (guitar, vocals), and Erik Standing (drums). The one thing I found out there was that El Here sings a lot. I thought he only sings in a few songs but when I heard them play, I noticed tha...
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Swing Era Jazz Musicians
1,432 wordsJazz 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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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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Ha Ha One Step
430 wordsMambo No. 5 Lyrics Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Mambo number five. One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the car so come on lets ride... To the liquor store around the corner. The boys say they want some gin and juice but I really dont wanna. Beerbust like I had last week. I must stay deep cause talk is cheap. I like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita. And as I continue, you know theyre getting sweeter. So what can I do? I really beg you my Lord. To me flirting is just like a sport. Anything f...
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Charlie Parker At Storyville Parker At Storyville Set
571 wordsCharlie Parker at Storyville The set by Charlie Parker, at Storyville is a perfect example of bop or bebop. It fits almost all of the criteria we use to define bop. These criteria include, but are not limited to: fast tempo, display of instrumental virtuosity, complex melodies and harmonies, an unresolved character, highly syncopated and masterful improvisations. These were all shown throughout this set. The compact disc I chose is actually a compilation of two different live sets 6 months apart...
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Brown Car Accident
602 wordsClifford Clifford Brown Clifford Brown Clifford Brown was born in Wilmington, Delaware on the 30 th of October 1930. Brown began playing a trumpet his father gave him in early high school, and by his late teens was playing in collage and other youth bands. Throughout high school he studied jazz harmony and theory, trumpet, vibes, piano, and bass with Robert Lowery. At this time he was attracting the attention of many lead players such as Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Brown had h...
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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Secondary Qualities
1,261 wordsLocke's Theory on Primary and Secondary Qualities Locke is interested in the role of experience in the search for knowledge. He is an empiricist. He believes that our senses are the only basis for knowledge. He sees the human mind as white paper, void of all characters without any ideas prior to experience. (pg. 104) In order to understand Locke's conception of primary and secondary qualities we must focus on five key points. First, I will examine what ideas are and how they are caused by qualit...
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U S Department Department Of State
699 wordsA man with brown eyes, and black hair, weighing 162 pounds, at five feet nine inches tall, and winner for the best trumpeter of 1956 in the Down Beat poll must be Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy was born on October 21, 1917 as John Birks Gillespie from Cheraw north Carolina. He was the ninth and last child of John and Lottie Gillespie. Dizzy was given early instrumental training by his father, who was the teacher and director of a local band. This in turn meant there was many instruments in their home. D...
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Dizzy Gillespie Key West
596 wordsThe story begins in Key West, Florida where Theodore " Fats" Navarro was born of mixed Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage on September 24, 1923. His musical training began early with piano lessons at age six, but he did not start taking music seriously until he took up the trumpet at age thirteen. He became good during his high school years. He also played tenor saxophone and played briefly with Walter Johnsons band in Miami. Apparently Fats did not care much for Key West. He was once quote...
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Dizzy Gillespie Key West
597 wordsEarly Fats Navarro Fats Navarro Early Background The story begins in Key West, Florida where Theodore Fats Navarro was born of mixed Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage on September 24, 1923. His musical training began early with piano lessons at age six, but he did not start taking music seriously until he took up the trumpet at age thirteen. He became good during his high school years. He also played tenor saxophone and played briefly with Walter Johnsons band in Miami. Apparently Fats did not care ...
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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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Miles Dewey Davis Birth Of The Cool Sound
1,353 wordsEven in the beginning he was already miles ahead. Its very evident that Miles knew and lived by that old axiom if its named, then its outmoded. Miles Dewey Davis was born May 25, 1926 in Alton, Illinois and grew up in East St. Louis. Miles collected records and for his 13 th birthday was given his first trumpet. Miles family was very fortunate and what you would call apart of the upper class during the Roaring 20 s and the great depression. Miles father Dr. Miles Dewey Davis has 3 degrees in his...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong
1,094 wordsTitle: 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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Tutankhamun Tomb King Tut
1,357 wordsThe ancient Egyptians were noted for many things, one of which would have been their artwork. Egyptians used many medians in their artwork that enhanced the details and beauty of every piece of art. Their artwork is fascinating and mysterious, which pulls in the viewer into wanting to learn more. One of the most important and unique Egyptian artworks belongs to King Tutankhamun, a young pharaoh of Egypt. A brief history of the discovery of King Tut s tomb and the importance and beauty of certain...
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