american songbook‚ but also played a few Thelonious Monk compositions including ’Round Midnight’ and ’Off Minor’. These songs in particular were played in a very tasteful manner. A lot of piano players often try too hard to be or sound like Thelonious Monk when playing Monk’s songs. As Harold Mabern once said in one of my ensembles at William Paterson (regarding what I’m addressing) "it’s like guys always want to out-Monk Monk. That’s why I don’t play Monk tunes". Now this is something that i don’t
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Buddhism is a philosophy/religion that was created by Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) over 2500 years ago‚ founded on Hindu beliefs. There are two major divisions: Mahayana and Theravada‚ and many subdivisions. Fundamentally‚ Buddhists believe that one must rise above desires‚ to reach a state of enlightenment. Buddha was idolized‚ and subsequently deified‚ but he never claimed to be anything more than a man (dictionary.com‚ 2005). The goal of this paper is to answer the following questions based on
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lives and people around us. In our everyday lives we are confronting challenges‚ some are as small as walking up a few steps‚ and some are larger and more challenging that could be life or death circumstances. Australian book ‘RAW’ written by Scott Monk has had a huge influence on how I view the meaning of challenge. Raw outlines various challenges that young teenagers may face such as crime‚ violence‚ affection‚ making friends and the difficulty met to change an individual’s behaviour towards life
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formality At the end of The Monkey and the Monk‚ the pilgrims acquire the scriptures and‚ thus‚ fulfill the task of their journey and please Bodhisattva. Yet‚ she points out that “within our order of Buddhism‚ nine times nine is the crucial means by which one returns to immortality. The sage monk has undergone eighty ordeals. Because one ordeal‚ therefore‚ is still lacking‚ the sacred number is not yet complete.”(Wu Cheng’en‚ 470) Even though the sage monk performed tasks that were supposed to lead
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Bebop music was the next evolutionary change of Jazz music that succeeded swing music. This paper’s aim is look at musicians who impacted this era‚ exploring more in depth Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the early 1940’s‚ the swing bands began to all sound the same as well as work along predictable chord changes.1 The music was now not used for dancing. Some people believed that this would let the music go away from the elite social groups‚ and now be for everybody. Also just because
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Koi Fish‚ Meditation‚ and Ghosts Koi fish has always fascinated me – there is something calming about their simple existence. I am reminded of the meditative state of mind aimed for in Zen‚ where thoughts‚ feelings‚ and sensations are allowed to come and go as they please while the source of our attention is firmly anchored within itself – in the breath‚ in the moment – immersed in the physiological sensory experience yet removed from it. Somehow the elegantly lazy movements of the koi fish bring
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Appendix A - Meditation Worksheet Veronica P. Sally-Garner PSY/211 ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHOLOGY Thursday‚ October 20‚ 2011 Instructor: Terry Browning Appendix A Meditation Worksheet Directions: Locate two resources on the Internet that explain meditation techniques. Copy and paste the web address into the top of the matrix. After reviewing the website‚ provide a brief summary for each source. Below your summary‚ list two interesting facts you learned from each site. Try the techniques you
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Tobias Wolff’s “Powder” 1992 The Night in Question (1996) father: 48 separated from wife & son thrill-seeker desperate to spend time with his son (on Christmas Eve) fight to spend some time with him sneaked boy into Jazz club (get him to experience the world) (see Jazz music below) POSITIVE NEGATIVE thrill-seeker‚ adventurous spontaneous reckless‚ dangerous no respect for time‚ schedules fights to spend time with his son on Christmas Eve tries to expose his son to different
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angry about him taking their son to see Telonious Monk she lets them go. He promises hand over heart to keep him safe during the Mount Baker ski trip and get him home on time. Through the story the father is responsible in what he feels what is best for his son. Although it may be considered improper today for minors to go to a night club‚ in the 1950’s it was very common for minors to accompany their guardians when going to the bar. Thelonious Monk was considered “One of the Giants of American Music”
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Cahokia Mounds covers five square miles. I always thought of it as just one huge mound with buried objects instead of the area consisting of several mounds making an entire village. Wondering how the large mounds were made‚ especially the largest mound‚ Monks Mound‚ I asked. Apparently‚ the mounds of earth were made from “borrow pits” with stone and wood tools. The dirt was then taken in baskets on people’s back. Many “borrow pits” can still be seen in the area. Besides building these ceremonial mounds
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