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    King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band‚ prf. Dippermouth blues [LP9856] Lewis‚ Meade "Lux" Honky Tonk Train Blues Louis Armstrong‚ prf. West End Blues [CDA 13024] Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five‚ prf. Struttin’ with some barbeque [LP 9856] Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven‚ prf. Potato Head Blues [CDA 13024] Morganfield‚ McKinley (Muddy Waters) Got My Mojo Working [CDA 100037 v.7] Morton‚ Ferdinand (Jelly Roll). Trumpet: King Oliver King Porter [CDA 7483] Original Dixieland Jazz Band‚ prf. Livery Stable

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    The main influences of Western art music in the 20th century. Early 20th century art music was some of the first music which explored the idea of dissonance; the idea that music does not require any specific harmony among notes. Throughout the history of classical music‚ up until then‚ dissonance was avoided. The strong influence of African tribal music caused much of early 20th century art music to make the listener dance and move. Igor Stravinsky (17th July 1882 – 6th April 1971) was a ground

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    CASE STUDY ON NATIONAL JAZZ HALL OF FAME (NJHF) SYNOPSIS This case describes and presents the problems faced by Mr. Rutland‚ Professor of History at the University of Virginia and founder of the National Jazz Hall of Fame (NJHF)‚ in his attempts to gain national recognition for the organization. The NJHF has achieved moderate success at a local level but has not attracted the needed national recognition. Basically the NJHF was established to maintain a jazz museum in an old Paramount theatre

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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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    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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    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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    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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    Politics and Hip-Hop

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    In today’s time‚ even though gangster rap is taking over; there are still some artists who have a lot of angrily sociopolitical lyrics and sometimes performed them by acting them out. It was in the early ’70s that Gil Scott-Heron (who is primarily a jazz-influenced soul singer) experimented with pre-hip-hop rapping on sociopolitical scorchers like "Whitey on the Moon" and "No Knock" (which lambasted the FBI for going after the Black Panthers). Scott-Heron’s best known song from that period is "The

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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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    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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