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Student Jazz Combos filled Choral Hall on Tuesday, March 29, 2016. The show started around 5:30 p.m. with the Monday at 9 p.m. combo directed by Cecily Terhune. The second combo was the Tuesday at 3:30 combo directed by Scott Routenberg. The show concluded with the Wednesday at 5 p.m. combo that is also directed by Scott Routenberg. Each combo left the audience in awe after each piece.…
-A type of music that focused on asymmetry and dissonance, made so white artists couldn't play it (involved technical mastering), lots of improve that moved away from sheet music. Very similar to Jimi Hendrix taking an American style (jazz) and transforming it to fit a new culture with the wave of immigrants. Often played in clubs where zoot suitors loitered, acted as a form of musical protest and resistance against the white mainstream jazz. Birth of a new kind of jazz, one that symbolizes youth and change within American society.…
This is where we see black society emerging into the lives of white society in a more positive way. Although segregation was still prominent in the 20’s and 30’s, many of the most famous jazz musicians were black. Throughout the movie jazz is played excessively. In one scene, an African American woman is shown singing at a party, in another scene; Amelia and Putnam are dancing to jazz playing on the radio. The movie shows how the music was played during this time period. It was generally on the radio or played during live performances in small cabarets, dance halls and ballrooms.(10) Throughout the movie music is shown in these ways, giving the audience a feel of what it was like to listen to music and how music would be played during this time…
Cultivated music is type of music that is imported to another place or country, whereas Vernacular music is type of music that originally comes from the country. Then, vultivated music in America means that music from other countries that are brought to America. For example: Opera. Opera is a music that originally from Italy. If it is brought to America, it becomes cultivated music in America. In other hand, vernacular music in America is music that is originally from America which is Jazz.…
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 began to surface, for example: dancing, music, fashion, theater and all the other arts in an attempt to help ease the post-war feeling of the nation.…
I think that wireless radio had the most impact on the course of jazz music because before that, most people just played songs they already knew or wrote and had sheet music for on whatever instruments they knew how to play. With the radio making music more widespread and available to people of all races and classes. This would allow jazz music to flourish and reach a new amount of people that was previously unheard of.…
The “Globalization of Jazz” is occurred when musicians from all around the world that were assimilating bebop and post-bop styles into the music of their culture in interesting and creative ways and creating new hybrid styles. Jazz had absorbed musical influences from other cultures and the reciprocal absorption of jazz into other parts of the world was…
Called also bop, bebop is a style of jazz with its characteristics being fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation founded on the mixture of harmonic structure and melody. Its origins began in the early and mid-1940’s, where it became synonymous with modern jazz, as the two of them came to a certain maturity point in the 1960’s. Its roots were from New York City.…
Describe some of the influence of Latin music in the US in the early part of the twentieth century.…
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.…
It means Smooth Jazz has a repeating pattern and a catchy tune. Since Smooth Jazz has rhythm and melody, you can dance to it. Smooth Jazz has more relaxed rhythms. What makes Smooth Jazz unique is that the saxophone is usually used as the main voice of the song. It basically leads the song and sounds louder, you can say that the saxophone is a more dominant instrument in Smooth Jazz. A good example of the more dominant saxophone can be found in a song called Second Chances. Second Chances is a song by Jessy J and Norman…
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything,” quoted by Plato. Music is a way in where you can escape all things in life. It’s like your exit out of all matters. You play it when you’re mad, sad, happy, or just simply need a little uplifting. There are different genres of music. You have pop, rock, classical, R&B, hip hop, contemporary gospel, jazz, blues, and much more. However, gospel has been transformed throughout time. Stated by Dr. William Reynolds, “Christian song is never static, never quite the same from one generation to another” (Doucette 6). It’s common for each generation following the next to change the sound of how a song was…
Dixieland jazz sounds are created when an instrument plays the melody or a variation on it, and the other instruments improvise around that melody. This works in jazz’s key element of improvisation. Next, swing jazz. Jazz music reached its height during the swing era. Swing music is unique in its strong rhythmic drive and “call-and-response” usage. As we discussed earlier, jazz music is unique in its rhythm, particularly swing, an element prominently incorporated in swing jazz, hence the name. Without this rhythmic element, swing music would not have the original jazz style. Mainstream jazz is considered to be extremely complex in nature, but it still contains important elements of jazz, including subtle use of rhythm, improvisation along with pre-arranged introductions, and “blues notes.” Despite introductions that are composed ahead of time, Mainstream still has the important element of improvisation. This shows us that jazz has evolved from the original style in to new styles that incorporate new and different elements. Funky Jazz, basically Mainstream’s alter ego, even contains the elements essential to original jazz style. Many of the original Funky jazz pieces were influenced heavily by blues and contain an abundance of “blues notes.” The rhythm of funky jazz is very simple, but funky jazz still includes strong jazz…
I am doing my end of the semester paper on Jazz music. Jazz was created in the twentieth century and was said that it was, “created to bring people together.” Jazz was also known in many cities around the time of the jazz age, but the city that was known as the birthplace of jazz was New Orleans. There are many important names that people still know today from the jazz ages. One important name during the jazz age was Louis Armstrong is known for many Jazz songs like “What a Wonderful World”, “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “Go down Moses.” Another name was Billie Holiday and she was known for “God Bless the Child” and “Billie’s Blues.” The other name was Duke Ellington, who have many recordings like “Take the A Train”, “Black and Tan Fantasy”,…
The music of the early 20th century was heavily jazz and blues. The bases of jazz music were influenced by the field hollers, hymns, and work songs from African Americans in the 1800s. Until 1901, improvisation, the style of Dixieland, created the genre of jazz, where every performer is playing different rhythms and tunes at the same time. Cornet player, Louis Armstrong, changed the Dixieland style and gave the idea for players to perform separate solos at different times. In the 1930s, Swing was introduced to American music. Performers established the style of Swing by playing in sync with one another in contrast to the 1920s jazz when players followed their own path of tunes and rhythms. The Great Depression was a time of sorrow and misery,…