to explore. Objectives Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Recommended Resources Relevant U.S. National Standards Objectives Students will read two selected texts and extract definitions of jazz from various famous people‚ such as Duke Ellington‚ Louis Armstrong‚ and Ralph Ellison. Students will compose a working definition/explanation of jazz. Students will develop a time line of the jazz era from the early 1900’s to mid-century using multiple resources. Students will read selected
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man who had made many contributions to the jazz world‚ which had included the introduction of the stand-up-bass as a lead instrument where it normally was used to keep time. He is known for composing the second largest amount of pieces just second to Duke Ellington2. He had mainly focused on collective organization when writing is charts that were similar to old school New Orleans street jazz bands‚ and his peers had once called him an organizational genius for this. Mingus’s pieces are known to be
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Louis Armstrong “The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings” Louis Armstrong Courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment “Little Louis” Armstrong was born — like so many who shaped American music — poor‚ black‚ and on the far side of the American Dream. His date of birth was August 4‚ 1901‚ although he believed that he was born on the Fourth of July‚ 1900. He never knew his father‚ who abandoned the family when Armstrong was an infant‚ and his mother‚ Maryann‚ worked at whatever jobs she could
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In the early 1900s there was a huge movement of over 6 million African American people from the South to the Northern states‚ this movement was known as the Great Migration. The Great Migration was huge in African American history because it was the setup for key changes in the lives of African American people. Black people had been so use to slavery and were not really finding jobs in the South so they figured that in the North they would have a better chance. Little did they know‚ life in the
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Collier always saw Ellington as a very confident man so when he learned this he was shocked. Therefore‚ Collier asks himself “who was I to think I could avoid them” (Collier 95)? Learning this about Ellington helped push Collier to do those frightening interviews with some significant named people until one day he realized that the anxiety experience before the interviews
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Jazz is a mix of music from marching bands as well as blues and Ragtime. Jazz is a type of music genre that has black American origin and is characterized by a regular or forceful rhythm‚ improvisation‚ and syncopation. Jazz’s most common instruments are brass and woodwind instruments and piano although the guitar and violin are occasionally used. Some different styles of Jazz are Dixieland‚ swing‚ bebop‚ and free jazz. The history of Jazz started in the South in the United States. The foundation
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Assessment 5 There are many major developments that one can consider when discussing the influence that contemporary classical music‚ particularly the language of chromaticism‚ pan-tonality‚ atonality and serialism have had on the impact of Jazz. In this piece I intend to focus on developments in modern and post-modern culture that have seen contemporary classical music flourish into a proliferation of new styles and sounds. To help explain this I will give a brief history as well as use examples
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Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)” by Fergie‚ GoonRock‚ & Q-Top discloses the realization of the American Dream and how it has been spoiled by the ignorance of social class vs wealth. Beginning with the title‚ which is a reference to Duke Ellington’s “It don’t mean a thing (if it ain’t got that swing)”‚ displays the lack of caution with partying in the Roaring 20s.
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Stevie Wonder was born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13‚ 1950‚ in Saginaw‚ Michigan. He was born six weeks early with retinopathy of prematurity‚ an eye disorder which lead to his blindness. Wonder showed an early gift for music‚ first with a church choir in Detroit‚ Michigan‚ where he and his family had moved to when he was four years old‚ and then later with a range of instruments including the harmonica‚ piano‚ and drums in which he taught himself before the age of 10. Stevie Wonder was just
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History of Jazz Midterm 1.) Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an American jazz composer‚ pianist‚ and bandleader who has been one of the most influential musicians in jazz. The Duke has released countless albums and songs‚ but not many know of his triumph as a musical theatre composer. Duke Ellington’s 1941 Jump For Joy was the first theatre show to openly discard the African- American stereotypes which prevailed in the arts at the time. In fact Jump for Joy openly discussed these stereotypes
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