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An Account Of A Live Classical Jazz With Mike Holober

The band played a series of live classical jazz in the concert. Most part of the concert gave great senses of relaxation and swing feelings by elegant tunes and fantastic melodies. As an audience, I was really impressed by the modulation in tone and the...

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Music of the 1920's: ragtime, jazz and blues

Early 1920s ragtime music had a heavy influence on dance. In the late 1920’s jazz started to have a heavy influence. The big music in the 1920’s was dance bands, Jazz, Blues, and Broadway. Some of the big musicians in dance bands were Paul Whiteman,...

1920S Jazz Music Ragtime 2 Pages

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...

Jazz Musicians Rock Music 5 Pages

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...

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The Mingus Big Band’s 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...

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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....

Invisible Man Jazz 8 Pages

The Role of the City in Jazz

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...

Jazz 3 Pages

Jazz report: Jenkins

For the bulk of his early career, Jenkins was known as a jazz and jazz-rock musician, playing baritone and soprano saxophones, keyboards, and oboe, an unusual instrument in a jazz context. He joined jazz composer Graham Collier’s group and later co-founded the jazz-rock group Nucleus,...

Jazz Music 2 Pages

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...

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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,...

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Toni Morrison's Jazz in the Postmodern Context

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,...

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1959, The Year That Changed Jazz

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...

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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...

Civil Rights Movement Jazz Jazz Music Music Musicians 2 Pages