CASE STUDY ON NATIONAL JAZZ HALL OF FAME (NJHF) SYNOPSIS This case describes and presents the problems faced by Mr. Rutland‚ Professor of History at the University of Virginia and founder of the National Jazz Hall of Fame (NJHF)‚ in his attempts to gain national recognition for the organization. The NJHF has achieved moderate success at a local level but has not attracted the needed national recognition. Basically the NJHF was established to maintain a jazz museum in an old Paramount theatre
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Notes on Board Oct. 2‚ 2013 Exam one was returned for student’s review. Listening assignment for this week was distributed and uploaded to mix. Ensemble- usually a small group of performers Polyphonic- The simultaneous sounding of two or more melodies of equal importance. Group Work: Sidney Bechet First notable jazz saxophone player‚ soprano sax Played clarinet‚ too. Composer Professional by age of 6. Louis Armstrong 1901-1971 [Greatest trumpet player] The most influential jazz
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1. Describe the ways in which swing music and popular culture were interrelated during the time known as the swing era. There were many ways in which swing music and popular culture were interrelated during the time known as the swing era. Jazz became the cornerstone of popular culture during the period known as the swing era. The swing era influenced clothing styles‚ retail marketing‚ fashion‚ dance‚ and even language. Swing fans had their own clothing style and built a social phenomenon around
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Billie was born to the name‚ Eleanora Fagan on April 7‚ 1915. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell’s Point section of Baltimore. Her mother‚ was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father‚ was 15. Holidays’ teenage parents‚ Sadie Harris (aka Fagan) and probable father‚ Clarence Holiday‚ never married‚ and they did not live together for a long time. Clarence‚ a banjo and guitar player worked with Fletcher Henderson’s band in the early 30s. He remains a shady figure who left his family
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joining Troy Floyd’s Band in Texas (1929). Left Troy Floyd in 1931‚ stints with Grant Moore’s Band‚ then worked with Benny Moten (Feb. 1933-1935)‚ but no recording sessions. He appears again in 1935 with Richard M. Jones‚ and became one of the all-time greats of tenorsax with Count Basie 1936-1939. Left Troy Floyd in 1931‚ stints with Grant Moore’s Band‚ then worked with Benny Moten (February 1933-35)‚ worked in Kansas City with Hot Lips Page’s Band‚ moved on to Chicago‚ played briefly in Dave
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Peter Johnson‚ and Albert Ammons. TRUE Coleman Hawkins played what instrument? Saxophone When 2 or more musicians play the same notes together it is called a “unison” TRUE Some of the best known Kansas City musicians played in what early KC group? Benny Moton Notes which‚ when played together‚ cause tension‚ sometimes because they sound like they are different keys at the same time are known as Dissonant. TRUE Lester Young gave Billy Holiday the nickname Lady Day What year did drummer Jo Jones
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Big Band Jazz Across the world there are thousands of languages that we as people use to communicate with one another. Many of these languages have been developed out of others‚ therefore sharing similar dialects‚ accents‚ and in some cases even some words are very similar. Yet of all the languages that are spoken across the world‚ there is only one that is fluently spoken and understood on every continent‚ and that is the language of Music. Yet because this language is spoken in so many different
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featured several of each instrument and playing a steady but still wild beat that was great for dancing. Swing was a big band music with some exceptions like Benny Goodman’s small bands. The great swing band included those of Louis Russell‚ Earl Hines‚ Jimmy Lancford‚ Andy Kirk‚ Harlen Leonard‚ Claude Hopkins‚ Chick Webb‚ Don Redmen‚ Benny Carter‚ Bunny Bengan‚ Charlie Barnet‚ Harry James‚ Woody Herman‚ Lionel Hampton‚ and the great Count Basie. Count Basie started out his young career as
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15 years of swing Swing is the natural evolution of jazz music‚ retaining much of the style and characteristics associated with it‚ while being different enough both musically and socially to separate itself. Swing is generally accepted to have been conceived in 1924‚ when the name synonymous with swing Louise Armstrong joined Fletcher Henderson’s band. However 1929 is the year swing really picked up in popularity. From this point swing grew through some wonderful technological and social advancement
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Jim McNeely was born in Chicago‚ and moved to New York City in 1975. In 1978 he joined the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra. He spent six years as a featured soloist with that band and its successor‚ Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra (now The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra). 1981 saw the beginning of Jim’s 4-year tenure as pianist/composer with the Stan Getz Quartet. From 1990 until 1995 he held the piano chair in the Phil Woods Quintet. At the present time‚ he leads his own tentet‚ his own trio
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