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    Bud Powell Research Paper

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    Bach‚ Powell leaned more towards the bluesy tunes of jazz. Around the time that Powell hit his adolescent years‚ he began to appear at a club‚ Minton’s Playhouse‚ where he met the jazz musician Theolonious

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    Frank Zappa

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    many creative new musicians‚ but none was more inspirational‚ controversial‚ stratological or creative than Frank Zappa (Arbus 1997)’. Frank Zappa rose to fame through his band The Mothers of Invention‚ which was known to play a range of styles from jazz to heavy metal rock to operas. Frank Zappa became highly known by the broader community for outstanding musical ability‚ innovative recording techniques‚ and his fascinating social and political battles. Zappa was born in Baltimore on the 21st of

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    Chicago was the center of the jazz world .many jazz musicians from new Orleans moved to play at the speakeasies‚and clubs.due to Chicago‚ jazz was called “HOT”.improvised solos played on drums‚pianos‚string bass‚ and saxophone became important.louis Armstrong was very famous for this trumpet solos ‚ he later became the first to “Scat”

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    Meghan Prchal Younger English 12R 1/22/14 Louis Armstrong To millions of people he is just a great entertainer but to fellow musicians he is one of the most important figures in jazz history. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong is the preeminent jazz artist of all time. As a musician and jazz fanatic myself‚ Louis Armstrong has made an impact on my life like no other. Louis taught me that “melodies are full of things” (Collier‚ 31) and that I can make them say whatever I want. I read about Louis to strengthen

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    Implementation Report

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    Implementation Report This is a program that allows user to play different types of music with simple and user-friendly interface. It has two variations of music which are Jazz and Blues and it also improvise itself behind the screen. How the design is completed and implemented is as follow. Documentation The structure of the design is shown in [Figure 1] and the functions descriptions in [Table 1] [pic] Figure 1 |Function Name |Input Parameters

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    music influence rock music? 7. Why do you think Latin music had such a great influence on the development of popular music? 8. Do you think that any of the music that you listen to has Latin influences? Why or why not? 1. In the twenties jazz combined with Cuban influences to create and afro-Cuban style. It also helped the true integration of New York. People of all races and social statuses came to clubs to see these bands‚ and in turn all danced together on the dance floor. 2. Machito

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    greater audience‚ higher fidelity‚ and less confining format. Television and film was not so popular at its start in 1891‚ the Lumiere brothers introduced motion pictures to films in 1895 making television more enjoyable for its viewers. In 1927‚ the Jazz singer began the era of talking film. Social Influence of Entertainment Media The social influence of entertainment media is positive.

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    ever invented‚ one of the most popular music genres at the time was the Jump Blues. The Jump Blues genre had made a rise to popularity back in the late 1930’s through the 1940’s. This genre alone seems to have a very fast tempo and it even has some jazz elements to it. The instruments that are usually involved in Jump Blues are brass instruments‚ electric guitars‚ saxophone‚ piano‚ and the drums. One of the most prominent artist within the Jump Blues genre is a man named Louis Jordan. Louis Jordan

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    syncopate the rhythm and introduce the influence of jazz into the composition.The second vocalist David Frankel initiates a call and response and then call out Latin-American countries to create a sense of pan-latismo. The next song “I Like it Like That “ is one of my favorite that I have fond memories of as a child.At first the composition wasn’t familiar to me because it started out with the instruments that you normally associate with jazz music‚the bass‚trumpet‚and the sax.A minute into

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    Student Name: Tracey Kipp Date: 2/22/2013 10:12 PM 1. Describe some of the influence of Latin music in the US in the early part of the twentieth century. It started a new type of music‚ Jazz ‚ Afro-Cuban Jazz. 2. What was the significance of “Machito and His Afro-Cubans”? They Created Afro-Cuban Jazz. They were kind of like the bridge between worlds finding success with white people also. 3. How did Dizzy Gillespie incorporate Latin music into his music? He invited a player named Chano

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