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    Jazz Brass Band Concert

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    At the jazz brass band concert on November 4‚ the band consisted of instruments such as the clarinet‚ saxophone‚ trumpet‚ trombone‚ tuba (specifically‚ a sousaphone)‚ snare drum‚ and bass drum. There were seven performers in the ensemble‚ with one person alternating between the clarinet and saxophone‚ four people playing brass instruments‚ and two people playing percussion. The percussionists remained in the back‚ while the brass sections were in the front filling out the left and right side of the

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    October 14‚ 2011 Seeing Ragtime and Blues as Parents of Jazz Jazz is a music genre that has complex characteristics and history of development and thus many musicians and scholars face troubles in defining what jazz is. In general‚ jazz is believed to have born in New Orleans. Jazz developed for the pleasure of the social dancers. According to the “Understanding Jazz: What Is Jazz?” of John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts‚ Jazz was created mainly by Afro-Americans‚ and had elements of

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    Salsa Jazz Concert Report

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    Salsa Jazz Band Concert On the 9th of November I went to the salsa jazz band concert. This all took place at Miami Dade College Kendall Campus in the Alfred L. McCarthy Hall Auditorium. I arrived at the campus around 7 pm‚ half an hour before the concert started and parked in the garage. At the garage‚ I met up with my friend Elizabeth with whom I have for the jazz and pop class. From there we both walked to the auditorium with her brother and waited outside for a bit. As I walked in the first thing

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    What Is Jazz Funk Dance

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    Jazz Funk Dance: Soul Jazz Aka Funk Jazz When soul jazz was the beat of Hearts in the 1960s‚ somewhere in the disco at the mid-1970s‚ Jazz funk dance born. Soul Jazz was the need of the hour but people also wanted a rock touch in it to groove so Funk Jazz was introduced with a dashing inject of Rock sense with the similar taste of Jazz. Actually‚ Funk Jazz means making your soul dance on the beats that are truly meant to shock and rock you. What is Jazz Funk Dance? Jazz Funk Dance is a subcategory

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    01 Chapter 1 Jazz

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    Chapter 1 Listening to Jazz McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2013 McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. Overview Jazz has been described as “America’s Classical Music” - the first musical style to have a specific American Identity. 1-2 Jazz developed out of many diverse musical and cultural influences at the beginning of the 20th century. 19th century photo of a group of African American Minstrels 1-3 The absence of recordings or written examples of the earliest jazz results in subjective historical

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    Michael Bublé Jazz Essay

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    to as the ‘new face of jazz’; the thirty-eight year old jazz/pop sensation has won three Grammy awards as well as multiple Juno awards. Bublé has had ten albums‚ which have all been great hits. Bublé’s 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one after only three days of sales. Bublé is a Canadian who was born September 9th‚ 1975. Bublé claims‚ in an Oprah interview‚ he slept with a bible and prayed every night to become a singer. He grew up listening to his grandfather’s jazz music‚ and credits him

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    overt racism dominated the minstrel show even as it provided employment opportunities for black performers; revisionist histories abound‚ especially in the development of jazz music‚ as the invaluable contributions of the black artists preceding the jazz movement often had their story rewritten to assert the development of jazz music by white artists instead. Despite these challenges‚ the growth and spread of music in this era was ultimately a positive influence on black culture. In addition to

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    Jazz Music in The Great Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s‚ The Great Gatsby‚ the reader sees a common theme of corruption of the American Dream. In the 1920’s‚ the times are changing in America and morals are becoming looser and the lifestyle of the wealthy is more careless. New fashion‚ attitude‚ and music is what nicknamed this era the “Jazz Age‚” greatly influencing Fitzgerald’s writing. He created similarities between many things in pop culture and the journey his characters Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ Tom

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    Jazz Age Research Paper

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                                            5/4/17                                                    English                                                                      The Jazz Age:                        What is the Jazz Age ?The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s ‚ ending with the Great Depression in which jazz music and dance styles became popular in the United States. Despite of social and economic upheaval ‚ the 1900s prospered as a whole. Society was experiencing a total new way of life

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    The Jazz Age was a cultural movement that began around 1918‚ post WWI. It was born in New Orleans but later spread around the world‚ it was a beautiful mixture of jazz and march banding styled music and was often played by African-Americans. It was the first time that people began to move to the cities rather than in rural areas. It was the first time that African American were given the opportunity to progress in a society that failed them since the ending our slavery. After the war‚ new trends

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