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- 111: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Concert
- ... started to play and I was completely blown away. The talent the band displayed was amazing, I was blown away. The music is a unique mixture of many different genres; jazz, rock, R&B and funk, to name a few. Much of the music had no singing and the songs were very long and complicated, involving different parts and many complicated ... musicians, because each of them were amazing in the own way. Overall I would rate this as one of the best concerts I had ever been to. The mixture of jazz and the various other styles of music they performed were very entertaining and the talent and skill the musicians displayed brought the show to the next level.
- 112: A Cappella? Is That How You Spell It?
- ... should know better. The most prominent occurrence is on the re-release of first album by the Singers Unlimited. Originally titled "Try to Remember," this very popular collection of vocal jazz arrangements by Gene Puerling has no doubt led some to misspell, or at least question the correct spelling of ... a cappella - two words, two "p's", two "l's." singing ... a cappella ... and those fans are our customers, so we want to alert you to great harmony wherever it's found! Finally, some of the best close harmony in vocal jazz and doo-wop is found on 100% accompanied recordings. Many a cappella aficionados are also fans of the Hi-Lo's, The Four Freshmen and similar groups. We want to ...
- 113: Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead
- ... Garcia and The Grateful Dead Jerome John Garcia was born in 1942, in San Francisco's Mission District. His father, a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia, had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties, and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer, Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948, while on a fishing trip ... band's story. Certainly this wasn't the first time drugs had been used in music for artistic expression or had found their way into an American cultural movement. Many jazz and blues artists had been smoking marijuana and using various narcotics to intensify their music making for several decades, and in the Fifties the Beats had extolled marijuana as an ...
- 114: A Cappella? Is That How You Spell It?
- ... should know better. The most prominent occurrence is on the re-release of first album by the Singers Unlimited. Originally titled "Try to Remember," this very popular collection of vocal jazz arrangements by Gene Puerling has no doubt led some to misspell, or at least question the correct spelling of ... a cappella - two words, two "p's", two "l's." singing ... a cappella ... and those fans are our customers, so we want to alert you to great harmony wherever it's found! Finally, some of the best close harmony in vocal jazz and doo-wop is found on 100% accompanied recordings. Many a cappella aficionados are also fans of the Hi-Lo's, The Four Freshmen and similar groups. We want to ...
- 115: Rock Music
- ... The first section of this essay is Rock n' Roll of the 1950's, when Rock n' Roll was born. It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz played by blacks. This kind of music started to attract white teenagers. Disc jockey Alan Freed was the one who introduced this music and later gave it the name of ... sometimes an electric organ, changed the name of Rock n' Roll to just Rock. During the 1960's many other styles of music arose from Rock like, Motown, Soul music, Jazz-rock , Folk-rock and others. Folk-Rock the most appreciated of this derivations and was first suggested by Bob Dylan. This kind of music brought to folk music a hard ...
- 116: Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
- ... as well as other critics have included their views on The Great Gatsby. F. Scott, Fitsgerald was an American short story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age(the 1920's), his most brilliant novel work being The Great Gatsby(1925). He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on sept. 24, 1896 and died in Hollywood, California ... this had been Fitsgerald ‘s inspiration for the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg”(Turnbull, 166). The brief exegesis examines the imagery of cats and dogs in Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age novel, The Great Gatsby. Toward the end of the novel, Nick Caraway refers to the hot summer days on Long Island as “dog-days”(Kehul, 118). John Kehul goes ...
- 117: France
- ... video recorder so you can see your performance later. There are hundreds of theaters in France. Look at "Officiel du Spectacle" for the movies you want. If you want to "jazz" it up a little go to Le Petit Journal for tradional jazz. Bring $20 per person and some money for food. Wait til 10 or 11 P.M. for some "real" music. Go to Centr la Meret des Eaux, it is an ...
- 118: The Howl of a Generation
- The Howl of a Generation The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy, and religion, the Beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way an entire generation of people see the world. That ... my generation / generation destroyed by madness / starving mystical naked." Ginsberg continued for seven single-spaced pages. The lines were short, influenced by Williams, and the phrases showed inspiration of soaring jazz saxophone riffs. "I knew Kerouac would hear the sound," Ginsberg later said (Parkinson 114). The author revised his poem, combining the short lines into long, "breath-lines." Although he felt ...
- 119: Skittles
- ... by emphasizing service excellence and the highest level of performance in all aspects of our operations and services. Our prominent services include live entertainment, ranging in form from comedy to jazz performances to poetry recitals and others. We also offer lunch, dinner, drinks and dancing to our customers. The restaurant is operated by its several partners who have an equal share ... as well as our marketing are geared towards attracting and satisfying the wants and needs of our target market. Through our reasearch, we have found that our target demographics enjoy jazz, live music, and comedy, as well as full course dining when going out. By inquiring of the specific target market demographics, we have determineed exactly what they want in terms ...
- 120: The Changing of the America Through Literature
- ... apart they were basically dealing with many of the same issues and social standards. The authors show numerous similarities going on in both era’s, the antebellum South, and the Jazz Age or also known as the Roaring Twenties. Twain wrote stories in order to teach people lessons. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn dealt with slavery, greed, racism, and senseless violence ... world and didn’t know how to change them. The time is now the early 20’s and the time is now known as the Roaring 20’s or the Jazz Age. People are into their own thing and there is a lot of drug and alcohol abuse. F. Scott Fitzgerald discussed the effects of greed, superficiality, senseless violence and to ...
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