Saturday‚ August 26th‚ the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (the New York City’s largest free outdoor performing arts festival is celebrating its 25th year)‚ happened at Harlem’s Marcus Grave Park with an attractive lineup. The rising singer Charenee Wade opened this day with songs of her latest record Offering: The Music Of Gil Scott-Heron And Brian Jackson. The greatest moments of the concert arrived with “Home is Where the Hatred Is”‚ where groovy funk and swinging jazz in its purest tradition cohabit‚ and
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race for artistic and cosmopolitan supremacy”. There are many eras of music including ancient‚ biblical‚ medieval‚ baroque‚ classical‚ romantic. Jazz: • Jazz was founded and developed from the roots of African Blues and European Ragtime musical traditions. Through the African American experience in the US‚ Jazz was born and evolved.
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Django Reinhardt Life Documentary—Facts! Part One: 1. Django was the first and only European Jazz performer—(Practically) the inventor of the Jazz guitar. 2. He was born in Belgium—January 23‚ 1910‚ he was illiterate. 3. At 12‚ someone gave him a 6-string‚ banjo guitar—he learned to play without any formal training by watching the way other Gypsy musicians played. 4. At 17‚ he came into adulthood and married a Gypsy girl named Bella. 5. November 2--a wick
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major role in the initiation of this intellectual movement which harbored and preserved a new black cultural identity in multiple aspects. Prolific writers such as Langston Hughes influenced many poets. The improvisation of Jazz and its syncopated rhythms was popularized by jazz legends such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. The Harlem Renaissance began in the late 1930’s after World War II. However much of the foundation of this movement was established by earlier generations of African American
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Music professor: Concert Report #1 October 27‚ 2014 RCC Jazz in Concert On October 20‚ I attended a concert by the RCC Jazz in featuring Lanny Morgan at the Digital Library Auditorium. The name of group members which are used were Doug Webb (Tenor Sax)‚ Tom Ranier (piano)‚ Chuck Berhofer (bass)‚ and Steve Schaeffer (drum “The Magic Flea” is an upbeat tempo song with mostly eighth notes‚ it features the Lanny Morgan as the guest artist on the alto sax. It has many key changes in the solo that he
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difficult times they had come across. The Spirituals they had sung in Africa followed and stayed with them in the United States. The Spirituals the slaves performed during enslavement have survived up until this day. They are well known as Blues‚ Gospel‚ Jazz‚ Ragtime‚ and more. Since African Americans followed their traditions so much‚ It was harder for African American slaves to perform Spirituals due to them not being able to own any instruments. Not only did African American Spirituals play a major
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this class through the music library; or‚ listen to another version available online). a. List 2 jazz or blues-like elements that Gershwin uses in his symphonic composition. The use of Ragtime rhythm; The use of blue notes (notes sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes) b. Compare and contrast Rhapsody in Blue with one other blues/jazz-like piece examined in class (i.e. Afro-American Symphony‚ “Lost Your Head Blues‚” “I Got Rhythm‚”
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as to call hip hop "the living blues."[19] Jazz‚ which developed from the blues and other African-American and European musical traditions and originated around the beginning of the 20th century‚ has also influenced hip hop and has been cited as a precursor of hip hop. Not just jazz music and lyrics but also jazz poetry. According to John Sobol‚ the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues‚ rap "bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally."[21] One
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genres such as jazz‚ blues‚ and hip-hop‚ most Americans do not realize that they are the essential components to the evolution of African American Vernacular Literature. In fact‚ it is the key factor that brought African American culture into the limelight in America. Since the first black peoples in America were slaves‚ and were not allowed to read or write‚ the African American Vernacular Traditions began as completely oral communications in the form of church songs‚ blues‚ jazz‚ rhythm and blues
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In the movies “Swing Kids” and “The Wave” both portray the actions and ways of Hitler and the German Nazis and show the power of propaganda‚ brainwashing‚ and indoctrination. Hyperinflation and the Treaty of Versailles were the main circumstances under which national socialism arose. “Swing Kids” takes place in Hamburg‚ 1939‚ right on the brink of World War II. Hitler has already taken over and many children and young adults are part of HJ‚ or Hitler Jugend. The main characters of “Swing Kids” are in love with swing music
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