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    Louis Armstrong

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    of the most famous and influential performers in the entire history of jazz. Louis Armstrong began to be noticed by important people in the 1920’s and the early 1930’s. Louis Armstrong was born august 4th 1901 in the ghettos of New Orleans. He learned to play the trumpet. He lived in a home of colored homeless people‚ where he met Peter Davis‚ (the band leader). In 1922 Louis Armstrong joined Joe Oliver’s creole jazz band‚ and by doing that he later on met Lil Hardin. These people made a

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    Bebop After The Swing Era

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    Victor Estrada ID: 1261250 Listening To Jazz Class Essay Following the swing era‚ which had come into existence in the 1930’s after the Great Depression‚ a new and more innovative jazz style merged in the 1940’s known as Bebop. Bop was not as popular as swing because unlike swing‚ Bop was not a dancing jazz style. Bop however did bring a new musical dimension different from swing. The Bop jazz style focused on advanced improvisations‚ emphasis on solos‚ and just musical virtuosity in general

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    Define Commercial Dance

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    had on Commercial Dance. Commercial Dance can be defined as any style of dance that can create revenue‚ involving any style or technique out there‚ this means that the diversity found under the umbrella term is huge. Ranging from the technique of jazz to the eclectic mix of movement found in Bollywood dance. Bollywood dance is a great example of the ideas that commercial dance has as the style is constantly changing and incorporating itself with movements and fashion styles that are most current

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    Smalls Concert Report

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    On October 20th‚ 2017 I attended a performance at Small’s Jazz Club‚ in Greenwich Village. Smalls is a very cozy‚ comfy‚ underground club and I loved that it was so tiny because the sound was bouncing all around the room. I was very enthusiastic about dragging my 2 best friend to a jazz club‚ for my unappreciated fondness for jazz. We saw the Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker Quartet. Scott Wendholt was on the trumpet‚ Adam Kolker on tenor saxophone‚ Ugonna Okegwo on bass‚ and Billy Drummond on drums. This

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    Music In The 1930s Essay

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    such as Big Band and Jazz‚ Swing‚ and Country. One out of three popular genres in the 1930’s was Big Band and Jazz; its premiere changed the face of music forever. The piano‚ bass‚ and the drums are the rhythm section of Big Band and Jazz music ("Music in the 1930’s"). Then‚ they have two to four melody players that include the instruments of clarinet‚ trumpet‚ saxophone‚ vibraphone‚ and guitar ("Music in the 1930’s"). Finally‚ the people that are in the Big Band and Jazz groups consist of 15

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    Blue Order: Wallace Stevens’s Jazz Experiments Corey M. Taylor Journal of Modern Literature‚ Volume 32‚ Number 2‚ Winter 2009‚ pp. 100-117 (Article) Published by Indiana University Press DOI: 10.1353/jml.0.0048 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jml/summary/v032/32.2.taylor.html Access Provided by Purdue University at 08/22/12 4:11PM GMT Blue Order: Wallace Stevens’s Jazz Experiments Corey M. Taylor Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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    of music’s that make people feel peaceful‚ such as pop‚ hip-hop‚ jazz‚ country‚ classical‚ rock and also R&B music. 2.0 Jazz music Jazz is a type of music that begins in 20th century. Jazz music is started with some African American community in the southern of United State that most of it is confluence of European and African music tradition. Jazz music origin from Ragtime and it culture is origin in early 1910s New Orleans. Jazz is kinds of music that can be define as a combination between European

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    forth images of African-Americans‚ jazz music‚ and many more topics that have been a part of his life. These elements are what influenced him‚ and shows it in the works that he has written. He uses jazz and blues styles for subjects and for structure in this piece of literature. In Hughes’ poetry‚ he would try to bring out the sound‚ cadence‚ and rhythms from blues and jazz music. He would also use humor‚ loneliness‚ and despair‚ to imitate the sound of blues and jazz music with words. Hughes refused

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    Concert Report #1 The jazz concert I attended took place in Fullerton College Theater on November 13‚ 2012. The Fullerton College Jazz Big Band and J- Train vocal jazz was very organized and well structured. The first song was the Open Invitation which was performed by the J- Train Vocal Jazz. The song was so interesting because the soloists had great voices. Everyone around seemed interested and amused. The J- train vocal jazz also performed the songs “Nancy McFlannery’s Cannery”‚ and” Fugue in

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    George Lopez: (born April 23‚ 1961) is an American comedian‚ actor‚ and talk show host. He is mostly known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations‚ including Mexican American culture. He was the host of the late-night talk show Lopez Tonight on TBS until its cancellation on August 12‚ 2011. One of his comedy shows is called Latin Kings which shows Mexicans are hater and not happy for people. They use alcohol/drugs and always

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