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- 11: Dizzy Gelespie
- ... that once dominated the night clubs, restaurants, and radio stations is now heard only in elevators or when we go to a grandparents house to visit. What is left of jazz are small portions of the music that people take and sample with in a new song. Jazz and its historical figures have mistreated and forgotten by today's society. One of the figure most forgotten is John Birks Gillespie, known to the jazz world as "Dizzy" Gillespie. "Dizzy" Gillespie was a trumpet player, composer, bandleader and politician of mostly the early 40's to mid 50's. This was a time period ...
- 12: The History Of Jazz
- The History Of Jazz The first jazz was played in the early 20th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890s, was composed for the piano, and each rag ...
- 13: Jazz 3
- Jazz has been an influence in many artist’s work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920’s and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were influenced by jazz were Jean-Michel Basquiat and Stuart Davis. The influence is quite evident in many of their works, such as Horn Players, by Basquiat, and Swing Landscape, by Davis. Stuart ...
- 14: New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag
- New 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. There's a word ... you just gotta shout something. The word is: DAG!" - Columbia Records There is only one place on earth where I though I could go to experience the true meaning of Jazz and to try to place myself in the shoes of all of the artists I have studied over the past semester. New Orleans, Louisiana is just that place. On ...
- 15: John Coltrane
- ... of "My Favorite Things" clearly defines Coltrane's life and his search for the incorporation of his spirituality with his music. John Coltrane was not only an essential contributor to jazz, but also music itself. John Coltrane died thirty-two years ago, on July 17, 1967, at the age of forty. In the years since, his influence has only grown, and the stellar avant-garde saxophonist has become a jazz legend of a stature shared only by Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. As an instrumentalist Coltrane was technically and imaginatively equal to both; as a composer he was superior, although ... of Blue Note's recording history. Coltrane didn't stay in pure "hard bop" territory very long. He would soon after return to Miles Davis' group to pursue modal-based jazz and continue on to explore Eastern motifs and free jazz. At the time of this recording, he was working in Thelonious Monk's legendary Five Spot quartet. The frontline ...
- 16: John Coltrane
- ... of "My Favorite Things" clearly defines Coltrane's life and his search for the incorporation of his spirituality with his music. John Coltrane was not only an essential contributor to jazz, but also music itself. John Coltrane died thirty-two years ago, on July 17, 1967, at the age of forty. In the years since, his influence has only grown, and the stellar avant-garde saxophonist has become a jazz legend of a stature shared only by Louis Armstrong and Charlie Parker. As an instrumentalist Coltrane was technically and imaginatively equal to both; as a composer he was superior, although ... of Blue Note's recording history. Coltrane didn't stay in pure "hard bop" territory very long. He would soon after return to Miles Davis' group to pursue modal-based jazz and continue on to explore Eastern motifs and free jazz. At the time of this recording, he was working in Thelonious Monk's legendary Five Spot quartet. The frontline ...
- 17: The Beat Generation
- ... As survivors of the World War II and preys of consumerism, everything that went on in the United States gave them great dissatisfaction. Their meaning of life was rediscovered from Jazz, Buddhism and drugs, which became the integral part of the beat movement. Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac had much reference to jazz, Buddhism, and drugs in their literary work. Ginsberg, who was mainly known for his life-changing poem “Howl,” which was first read at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in ... in fact though, “the only major beat figure not strongly influenced by Buddhist thought.4” Jack Kerouac, who had wrote the great novel, On The Road, contained great reference to jazz. It contained the idea of spontaneous prose which Kerouac thought of while listening to jazz. Spontaneous prose was “the style of being true to one’s beliefs and idealism’ ...
- 18: Basquiat and Davis
- Basquiat and Davis Author: Josh Rodgers Jazz has been an influence in many artist’s work, from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. The white man began to imitate them in the 1920’s and the music form caught on and became very popular. Two artists that were influenced by jazz were Jean-Michel Basquiat and Stuart Davis. The influence is quite evident in many of their works, such as Horn Players, by Basquiat, and Swing Landscape, by Davis. Stuart ...
- 19: The Music of Louis Armstrong
- The Music of Louis Armstrong “Louis Armstrong was the epitome of jazz and always will be” (“Louis Armstrong Quotations” Np). This quote, by Duke Ellington, is the frank truth about Louis Armstrong. Jazz is a form of music that has been defining itself over the ages. This music form is one that has become an American tradition especially in the New Orleans area ... developed into a life style that has established roots in this country. Despite the growth and current size of our country, and in the world of music, the world of jazz has always recognized its eternal debt to one musician. The mere existence of jazz, as know today, is due to the influential contributions of Louis Armstrong. His life as ...
- 20: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... with for the next seven years. Then, without any advance notice, he broke up the Band and spent the next six months orchestrating a new sound which he called 'Progressive Jazz. ' It was as though he had heard other bands catching up with him and had determined to move even further out. The rhythms were wilder, the voicings of the saxophone ... Johnny Richards in 1956. By 1948 the compositions he had written for 5 trumpets, 5 trombones, 5 saxophones and 4 rhythm had become an arresting, dominant force in contemporary music. Jazz aficionados from Southern California's Balboa Beach Rendezvous Ballroom to New York City's famed, subterranean Jazz club, Birdland, became enamored with the Orchestra's roaring, precision sound and helped make it one of the most successful attractions in the entertainment industry. In June of that ...
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