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Improvisation and Other Jazz-like Techniques in Jack Kerouac’s Writing
Bop jazz divorced itself from its mainstream predecessor when musicians like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk began to emphasize fast tempo and improvisation over the predictable music of the swing era. These renegade musicians valued spontaneity and inspired many listeners. It is no...
My Love and Desire for Jazz
From when I was a toddler mashing piano keys to now as a high school band student, music has always been a hobby of mine. But it was not until last year that I realised it was more than just a hobby, and that I...
Biography and Career of Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday’s Path to become a Legendary Jazz Singer Billie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz singers of the 20th century. Billie Holiday’s innovative phrasing about her life experiences in her music makes her one of the most influential jazz lyricists of the...
The Influence of Jazz Musicians on the Civil Rights Movement
Racial segregation was extremely common in the first half of the twentieth century. During the 1940s segregation was enforced by law. The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution states that everyone should have equal rights, but the meaning could have been taken many ways. Until fairly...
The History of Jazz Dance in America
The origin of jazz dance can be traced all the way back to Africa. In Africa, it was custom for natives to dance as a celebration of cycles in life such as birth, puberty, marriage, and death. This was to express their cultural beliefs. Drums,...
The Life History of Louis Armstrong, the Famous American Jazz Musician
Introduction Born in August 4th 1901, Louis Armstrong, also nicknamed as Pops was one of the most influential artists in Jazz music in America (Teachout, 2010). Of African-American origin, Armstrong was the first African-American to cross the racial line and be judged purely on his...
The Role of the City in Jazz
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When Christopher Morley explains in Where the Blue Begins that “All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim,” he may not realize how closely he is describing the city illustrated in Jazz, a novel by...
The Rhythm of Jazz and Black Existentialism
Sharon D. Welch, in ““Lush Life”: Foucault’s Analytics of Power and a Jazz Aesthetic,” states: What is seen through a jazz aesthetic is what is seen now by many: conflict, difference, failure, mistakes, suffering, meaning, beauty, commitment to justice, grief, outrage at suffering and injustice....
Jimi Hendrix and Jazz-rock Fusion
For rock legend Jimi Hendrix to have spoken these prophetic words may come as a surprise to some. He was at the height of his career; he was wanted by women worldwide; he was living a rags-to-riches fairytale. Yet Jimi’s dying wish was to jam...
1959, the Year that Changed Jazz
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The year 1959 was marked a monumental year in American music history. Many American jazz artists made recordings that influenced society profoundly and left a lasting impact that still is present to this day. Musical experimentation during this year is considered the apogee of American...
The Mingus Big Band Performance at the Jazz Concert
I’m sure that in 40 years, I’ll have some great memories about my younger years. One of them will definitely be the jazz concert I attended that Thursday night on the Fez, located at 380 Lafayette St, right under the Time Caf. That as any...
Louis Armstrong, the Star of Jazz
“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.”- Louis Armstrong (Boujut, Michel) Louis Armstrong was a man who certainly knew what jazz is, without ever having to ask. For the greater part of the 20th century, Louis Armstrong was a central part...
Toni Morrison's Jazz in the Postmodern Context
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Ross Murfin defines postmodernism as, “A term referring to certain radically experimental works of literature and art after World War II” (Murfin 397). According to Murfin, postmodernism, like modernism that preceded it, involves separation from dominant literary convention via the “experimentation with new literary devices,...
Charles Franklin Biography
Charles Franklin 6th Hour Jazz Band Thelonious Monk Thelonious Monk was born on October 10, 1917 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. When he was just four, his parents, Barbara and Thelonious, Sr., moved to New York City, where he would spend the next five decades...
A Musical Performance by Students at Jazz Station in Eugene
Concert Report w/ Selfie On Friday night the 19th I was fortunate enough to attend a concert with multiple jazz combos made up of UO music students preformed at the Jazz Station here in Eugene. This was my first time seeing a Jazz ensemble live....
A Concert Review of Dimensions in Jazz Directed by Wade Judy
Jazz Concert Assignment I decided to go to the “Dimensions in Jazz” concert which was directed by Wade Judy, Dr. Eric Bush, and Marko Marcinko. Before the performance started, there was a wide range of people entering. Some were students and some were adults; however,...
Concert Review – Matthew Yeakley Jazz Session
I attended the Matthew Yeakley’s Jazz Session at The Continental Club. It was a cloudy cold dark night, which put me in a mood for being indoors in a jazz event. Yeakley’s jazz group consists of Matt for piano, Aaron for drums and Cooper for...
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