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- 41: Personal Writing: The Path to the Unknown
- Personal Writing: The Path to the Unknown "Anyone interested in performing in the District VIII Honors Jazz Band this year?" asked Mr. Yeazell, my band director "Because I have all the information needed to sign-up for auditions." For some reason, deep down inside I did not ... the application material. Days went by, and eventually I had forgotten completely about the event, until Mr. Yeazell once again brought it up,"Everybody involved in the District VIII Honors Jazz Band don't forget your first practice is tomorrow down at University of Dayton. I have maps and room numbers for those of you who have never done this before ... was able to say. What had I done? I was not qualified to play in the honors band I stink. I had trouble playing the music in the high school jazz band, let alone the music that was geared towards the musically gifted! The next few hours and throughout that night, I could not think of anything but the mistakes ...
- 42: Roaring Twenties
- ... narrow minded attitudes of people in a small town. Another great author of the time was F. Scott Fitzgerald whose works included The Beautiful and Damned, and Tales of the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, exemplified the American Dream. The story shows the often misconception of the American Dream being a life of prosperity, parties, happiness, and ... became one of the most popular composers of the 1920's. Two of his best known orchestral works "Rhapsody in Blue," and "An American in Paris," feature many elements of jazz. In the Twenties, Jazz was becoming very popular. Americans sang and danced to all of their favorite songs. Every time the turntable was flipped on, Americans just had to dance. It was a ...
- 43: Dave Matthews Band
- ... author, Time magazine puts it: The DMB offers an alternative to alternative rock: music that is conspicuously eclectic but plainly rooted in the familiar bedrock of Americana, the blues and jazz. By introducing acoustic guitars and shifting tempos punctuated by violins, penny whistles and other flourishes of world music and jazz, the band has forged a cerebral yet commercially appealing sound, surpassing competitors like Phish. (Thigpen) After the release of Under the Table and Dreaming came the album Crash, which involved ... cap. This helps create the well known "laid back" style of the band onstage as well as off. But quite possibly it's the way they "seem more like a jazz combo than a rock band, playing tightly coordinated phrases that suddenly veer off into flights of improvisation" (Thigpen). Robin Bresnark, from Melody Maker says: Their musical style is very ...
- 44: Frank Sinatra
- ... and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank Sinatra. Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental jazz music, and helped establish an enthusiastic climate for popular singers. One of the songs Frank Sinatra is most known for singing is the hit My Way. Frank Sinatra s career ... he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949). Sinatra is also well respected as a jazz singer. During the 1950s and 1960s Sinatra also teamed with a number of talented jazz arrangers, including Nelson Riddle, Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones, and Billy May. He produced a number of albums that are now regarded as classic recordings. These recordings include Swing Easy ( ...
- 45: Langston Hughes
- ... unique in that it describes the integration of blacks and whites in an optimistic tone. The vigor and spirit of his youth is reflected in the energy of the writing, ³Jazz-band, jazz-band, / Play, plAY, PLAY! / Tomorrow....who knows? / Dance today!² The repetition of the words, and the increasing emphasis on the word ³play² bring out the excitement to the reader. More ... from the very focus of the poem: the interracial couples. The entire poem can be summed up as ³...a single-glance tableau of interracial flirtation against a background of heady jazz.² (Emanuel 120) This festive relationship between the two sexes can rarely be seen in any of Hughes¹s later poems. At this point in his life, Hughes was enjoying ...
- 46: Dave Matthews Band
- ... author, Time magazine puts it: The DMB offers an alternative to alternative rock: music that is conspicuously eclectic but plainly rooted in the familiar bedrock of Americana, the blues and jazz. By introducing acoustic guitars and shifting tempos punctuated by violins, penny whistles and other flourishes of world music and jazz, the band has forged a cerebral yet commercially appealing sound, surpassing competitors like Phish. (Thigpen) After the release of Under the Table and Dreaming came the album Crash, which involved ... cap. This helps create the well known "laid back" style of the band onstage as well as off. But quite possibly it's the way they "seem more like a jazz combo than a rock band, playing tightly coordinated phrases that suddenly veer off into flights of improvisation" (Thigpen). Robin Bresnark, from Melody Maker says: Their musical style is very ...
- 47: Investigating The Style And Te
- ... I think of Dean Moriarty... This extract effectively conveys the sincerity of the characters feelings and shows how well Jack Kerouac s technique can portray free, spontaneous thought. For Kerouac, jazz is the ideal model for complete spontaneity and he states that the ideal procedure for writing spontaneous prose is blowing(as per jazz musician) on the subject of image ; when he removes the conscious mind from interfering with writing and just blows, the result is language undisturbed flow from the mind of personal secret-idea words. Kerouac uses the term blowing instead of playing in his analogy of writing and jazz and the distinction is an important one. Playing connotes a more involved thought process whereas blowing implies a more direct, more intense, less thoughtful, more emotional style of play. ...
- 48: Frank Sinatra
- ... and Billie Holiday, influenced Frank Sinatra. Sinatra then developed a signature vocal phrasing in his music that influenced generations of popular vocalists. Sinatra anticipated the decline of big-band instrumental jazz music, and helped establish an enthusiastic climate for popular singers. One of the songs Frank Sinatra is most known for singing is the hit My Way. Frank Sinatra’s career ... he also appeared in many film musicals such as, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Till the Clouds Roll By (1947), and On the Town (1949). Sinatra is also well respected as a jazz singer. During the 1950s and 1960s Sinatra also teamed with a number of talented jazz arrangers, including Nelson Riddle, Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones, and Billy May. He produced a number of albums that are now regarded as classic recordings. These recordings include Swing Easy ( ...
- 49: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... Rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, they were married. Within two years they became the most notorious young couple in America, symbolizing what Fitzgerald called The Jazz Age. The Jazz Age began, Fitzgerald tells us in his short story, "May Day," in May of 1918. It ended with the stock market crash of 1929. The Jazz Age brought about one of the most rapid and pervasive changes in manners and morals the world has ever seen, changes that we are still wrestling with today. It ...
- 50: Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career
- Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career Louis Armstrong was the most successful and talented jazz musician in history. His influence and expansive career continues to make waves in the jazz world. That is what made him become what he is to many today – a legend. Born on August 4, 1901, in the poorest section of New Orleans, Armstrong grew up ... the riverboat and fired due to a fight. After returning to New Orleans, he received a telegram from King Oliver in Chicago. It was an invitation to join The Creole Jazz Band – an offer Armstrong couldn’t refuse. The Jazz Band cut it’s first record in the spring of 1923 and toured throughout Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana (Hadlock 64). ...
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