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    The Influence of Jazz on Twentieth-Cantury Music Many people in today’s society don’t realize how much of an influence has been transpired throughout history overtime. We tend to overlook all the influences on today’s music and don’t actually appreciate history’s influences in our everyday lives. I would like to focus on the twentieth-century and how the visual arts influenced the time period. Hopefully this essay can spread knowledge and awareness on how much history has to do with influences

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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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    The Influence of 1920 Blues and Jazz on Modern Music Mark Carter The Influence of 1920 Blues and Jazz on Modern Music This paper is will try to show how the music that started with singing of old songs by the slaves to influences the music that the world listens to today. Shaping the music of Rock and Roll‚ Country and Western‚ and Easy Listening that influences every aspect of society’s everyday life are Blues and Jazz. In an interview many years ago on television‚ heard by this

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    Jazz Concert Review [pic] The first formal small jazz concert was held at the Maum Café on Sep. 25th‚ 2008. There were many music performances have held at the Maum Café but Zino Park‚ leader of the band‚ and manager of Maum Café agreed to arrange a formal jazz concert for the first time. The main theme of this concert was “Smooth Jazz with Zino Park at Maum”. Before the concert began‚ the band members introduced themselves to the audience. The names of players were: Acoustic guitar

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    only have a small part to do with the actual book‚ but the title Jazz by Toni Morrison is significant throughout the whole book. This is because Jazz was a very popular music style in the 1920s‚ which is around the time the book is set. During that time‚ Jazz was very popular in the African American culture‚ this is significant because the main characters of the book are African American. Toni Morrison incorporates elements of Jazz music throughout the whole book‚ she does this by using rhythmic

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    I saw The Santa Fe Big Band 22nd‚ Annual Evening of Jazz Concert. The band was dressed up all matching. The men were wearing black dress shirts and pants‚ with dress shoes. The women wearing black formal dresses with red shoes. They all looked very professional and when they started playing it immediately took me back to the 1930s‚ the big band era.  Most of the songs were of long length and with many solos through the songs. The instruments used to create the songs were: saxophones‚ trombones‚ trumpets

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    Reading the book “Jazz Anecdotes‚” by Bill Crow; it really gives the picture of what some of the first jazz musicians went through. This book introduces the jazz world as it really is. Throughout the book the stories reveal struggles‚ learning and teaching from one musician to another‚ discrimination‚ life on the road‚ and success. The different kind of characters and personalities is what makes this book interesting and come alive. In some of the stories of the book you sense personal and career

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    How Did Jazz Develop

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    The earliest times in jazz had been looked more of an art because of the new techniques more expansive harmonies‚ expansive harmonies‚ and more. Breaking through the swing era‚ modern jazz became an outbreak with its complex harmonies one would actually say that modern jazz was influenced by the drastic changes in the swing era. Expecting the role of entertainment African Americans dominated jazz even with racism boiling and hate crimes trending white bands would still manage to incorporate African

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    Jazz In The 1920s Essay

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    What about the nineteen twenties‚ the jazz age? This new sound called jazz is music became recently discovered that’s how it begun. To anyone that lived in this era had a blast en-joying new sound of music. The 1920S were known as the “Jazz Age or era”‚ this dec-ade started when the our American soldiers were coming back home and had won the greatest international conflict in our history and had to be dealt with nervous energy stored up and even in the unexpended into the war. Anew president had

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    Jazz & Blues Concert Tickets‚ Schedule & Tour Dates As a particular complex term‚ Jazz Blues can allude either to a blues artist who utilizes more propelled harmonies or potentially rhythms which break out of customary‚ direct blues designs. The outcomes may sound more like one side of the condition with a touch of the other blended in‚ or even approach R&B. Blues and jazz were established in a similar African-American melodic customs in any case‚ and they have dependably sufficiently crossed that

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