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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11st Class: 01/16/13 Pre-Jazz Influences African Elements in American Music [The Jazz DNA] -Syncopated rhythm – playing rhythms in between or against the stead beat -Improvisation – art of spontaneous composition in music -Call and Response – echo style (copy)‚ question and answer style of musical conversation -Individuality – human voice as instrumental model Use of bends‚ slides and timbr (tone manipulation) to sound like no one else. -Beat – steady pulse -Rhythm – sound
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I am doing my end of the semester paper on Jazz music. Jazz was created in the twentieth century and was said that it was‚ “created to bring people together.” Jazz was also known in many cities around the time of the jazz age‚ but the city that was known as the birthplace of jazz was New Orleans. There are many important names that people still know today from the jazz ages. One important name during the jazz age was Louis Armstrong is known for many Jazz songs like “What a Wonderful World”‚ “When
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Charles Mingus‚ a 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
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Jazz is just one of the many genres of music in the world‚ but almost anyone can recognize a musical piece as jazz by the rhythm or the improvisation. However‚ there is more to jazz than the rhythm and improvisation; there is also the chorus structure‚ harmonic progression‚ and the instrumentation. In addition‚ an important element of jazz is the ensemble because it mixes different harmonizing instruments used in jazz to produce a singular sound as demonstrated by the UIC Jazz Ensemble. The UIC Jazz
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In American in the 1950s‚ a new cultural and literary movement staked its claim on the nation’s consciousness. The Beat Generation was never a large movement in terms of sheer numbers‚ but in influence and cultural status they were more visible than any other competing aesthetic. The years immediately after the Second World War saw a wholesale reappraisal of the conventional structures of society. Just as the postwar economic boom was taking hold‚ students in universities were beginning to question
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in local rhythm and blues bars while growing up in Fort Worth‚ Texas in the late 1940s and early ‘50s. Some of his legends include Charlie Parker and two local musicians in Fort Worth Ben Martin and Reed Connors. Coleman loved Charlie Parker and bebop and thought of it as the most advanced collective way of playing a melody and at the same time improvising. Parker taught Coleman many lessons especially about the quality of what he could play and knowing the audience (Ratliff 63). The musician
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Project History of Trends (1940-1950) Introduction/table of content Introduction/table of content 2 First Half decade 1940-1950 3 Second half of decade 1940-1950 4 Inventions in 1940 till 1950 5 First Computer 5 Fashion in the 40‘s 6 The ‘Sweater girls’ and ‘Pin-up’ girls 7 The New Look 7 Theatre de la Mode (theatre of fashion) 9 The birth of the Bikini 9 Cosmetics 10 Hairstyles‚ Turbans and Snoods 10 Literature 11 Music 12 Music 12 Movies 13 Dominant styles
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combined the music of marches with the rhythms of African music. The instruments used for ragtime are used in jazz. 3. a. Cornetist who helped to create jazz music . His music had a loud piercing sound that be heard in the distance. 4. a. Bebop had faster rhythms and more complex harmonies. 5. a. A form of jazz that emphasized improvisation. In hot jazz multiple musicians did improvisation‚ In classic it was one. Critical Thinking Questions 1. a. Both use improvisation at some
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Jazz began when WWI had just ended and a social revolution was coming. Life was to be lived to the fullest extent. People during this time had just gotten out from the worst war that the world had ever seen‚ up to that point in time. The country had also just hit the depression; folks were trying to make the best of their lives. People were depressed with financial issues following such a terrible war. Jazz helped to bring the light into some of those people’s lives. The first place of jazz is normally
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