Concert Assignment Studio Big Band Concert Attending a Jazz concert was something new to me. The concert that I attended was at the University of Redlands School of Music. The performing band was called Studio Big Band and was under the direction of David Scott. It was held in the Casa Loma Room which was large and had the ability to hold many excited music lovers. It started at 8pm and was about an hour long. Since this was my first jazz concert‚ I wasn’t sure was to expect. This was a new
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Before going to the jazz showcase I only had three previous experiences with live music and for the most part those experiences were not acoustic sessions but had more synthetic instruments. Due to this I was excited to go to this performance because it would be something that I had never experienced before. I had a pretty good idea of what the experience would be like since we talked about it in class and also because I have listened to jazz music in the past. Despite this there were still a few
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debasing of the Jazz genre as a unworthy equal to it’s predecessor‚ European Classical music. This can be seen in various statements about Jazz‚ such as Boris Gibalin commit‚ "The "Jazz Mania" has taken on the character of a lingering illness and must be cured by means of forceful intervention."1 This conflict can be traced through out the history of Jazz‚ as Classical composers have relatively disregarded this new type of music. Before Duke Ellington’s Cotton Club performances‚ Jazz play on the radio
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The Jazz Age Jazz. The style of music that just makes you want to dance. The blues‚ a kind of music that makes you want to cry. The 20’s were famous for great jazz and blues entertainers such as Louis Armstrong‚ Bessie Smith‚ and George Gershwin. The most famous of all though is Duke Ellington. Duke Ellington playing at the Cotton Club. The Duke as he is also known as is a Jazz legend. Ellington is a pianist‚ a composer and a bandleader. The Duke started playing professionally at the age of 17
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The novel Jazz by Toni Morrison is a great historical fiction that portrays the lives of African Americans men and woman’s via race‚ gender‚ and music. The novel offers many critical approaches but Feminist/Gender stands out as the main approach because of the novel themes portrayed by the African American women’s characters‚ such as their romantic love and relationships; desire; power and role in the society; and the violence. Toni Morrison does an exceptional job with the novel characters and
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Jazz is one of the greatest music genres of all time. There are 3 main types of jazz that we have studied this year – bebop‚ swing and cool jazz. While today jazz may not be mainstream music that is heard on the radio‚ there was a time between 1930 and 1955 where it was. In this research project I am going to be comparing the famous jazz compositions‚ “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck and “C-Jam Blues” by Duke Ellington. Both pieces were chart-topping and achieved incredible mainstream success‚ with “Take
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Defining Jazz Music Grade Levels: 9 - 12 Estimated Time This lesson is composed of four integrated teaching sessions designed for 45-55 minute class periods. Taught as a complete unit‚ the lesson may span two to three weeks‚ depending on the amount of time allowed for in-class sharing and writing. The objectives and materials are listed in individual sections. Overview Louis Armstrong said‚ "Jazz is music that’s never played the same way once." Ralph Ellison said‚ "Jazz is an art of individual
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Jazz began when WWI had just ended and a social revolution was coming. Life was to be lived to the fullest extent. People during this time had just gotten out from the worst war that the world had ever seen‚ up to that point in time. The country had also just hit the depression; folks were trying to make the best of their lives. People were depressed with financial issues following such a terrible war. Jazz helped to bring the light into some of those people’s lives. The first place of jazz is normally
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On September 3‚ my boyfriend and I attended the 38th Chicago Jazz Festival in Millennium Park. This was my first jazz concert. My boyfriend and I headed towards the Jay Pritzker Pavilion; its stage looked like a steel version of the Sydney Opera House. As we looked for a place to sit‚ I noticed that the audience’s demographics consisted of Indian‚ Asian‚ some African Americans‚ and Caucasians. We sat near the stage in the plastic orange seats because the grass area was extremely packed. However‚
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the musical forms developed in this process was jazz--one of the major American contributions to world culture. Each of these forms of music made essential contributions to the development of jazz itself but each‚ more or less‚ retained its own integrity and none could be said to have been transformed into jazz. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation‚ often by more than one player at a time. Jazz represented a break from Western musical traditions
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