Breathing and Living Jazz For my Extended Project‚ I will be composing a Jazz and Blues inspired piece. Jazz is a style of music that originated in the United States of America and was used as a way to express one’s emotions. The syncopated rhythms and simple understructure have led to some of the most influential songs and musicians of the 20th century. The room to improvise is endless. It is often said‚ “in jazz there is no wrong note”. Since I am producing a jazz piece as my artefact‚ I thought
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swing involves a departure from the written score by maintaining the underlying beat‚ but playing the melody between and around the beat in a fashion other than it is written (Pg. 2121). More commonly‚ swing refers to what we call "big band" jazz of the 1930’s- music performed by groups which generally featured several of each instrument and playing a steady but still wild beat that was great for dancing. Swing was a big band music with some exceptions like Benny Goodman’s small bands
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throughout the song is as recognizable to the jazz world as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony’s “da-da-da-DUM” is to the classical world. It is a supreme love for Coltrane’s biggest influence: his creator. Born and raised in the Southeast during the height of the segregation era‚ Coltrane sought comfort and unity in his local church. He expressed his love for the church by taking up clarinet for the community band. Coltrane shifted his interests towards jazz in high school thanks to the musicality of Lester
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Afrobeat music was originated by Fela Anikulapo Kuti which became a unique popular kind of music emanating from Africa. Afrobeat is the fusion of different western stylistic elements including jazz with the with traditional Yoruba music. Afrobeat music by Fela Anikulapo Kuti is characterised by his distinct personality. A SHORT BACKGROUND ON FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI Fela Anikulapo Kuti was born on October 15‚1938 to the family of Reverend Israel Ransome Kuti at Abeokuta in Ogun State‚ Nigeria. At
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School May 6th‚ 2013 Jazz is considered by numerous the best contribution the United States has made to the art of music. In the 1920s‚ Jazz evolved from a New Orleans styled music‚ now called Dixieland‚ to a more successful music labeled Swing. Instead of mimicking traditional music‚ jazz is an improvisational music style. As a result‚ jazz became the most dominant form of dance music in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s made it an easy target for hate. Jazz created its own rules which
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life would be In music there are many genres. Jazz is one of the genre in music. Jazz is a music of West African influenced by European music and popular American music styles ( Lawn‚ 2007). “ Jazz can be described generally as a music rooted in improvisation and characterized by syncopated rhythm‚ a steady beat‚ and distinctive tone colors and performance techniques” (Kamien‚ 2015‚ p. 468). However‚ according to a journal by Megill and Demory(1989)‚ Jazz music is not only an improvisation of melody
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result of many factors; The slave trade‚ exiled Acadians‚ and adventurers chasing easy money in an active port city are a few of the reasons why New Orleans is an American anomaly. One of New Orleans most noteworthy exports is jazz. First thought of as the “Devil’s Music” jazz eventually became immensely popular and well respected among many people‚ including for example‚ young people in the roaring twenties‚ when it was the popular music of its day. It gave way for some African American and creole
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A week ago me and my friends decided to go the infamous Dr. John’s Blackberry Jam in Atlanta we’ve been going for a couple years now mainly for the hip hop jazz and classical. But the last time we went something strange happened while my friends Daquan‚ Jessica‚ and Justin went to get some cokes. We had arrived late because of traffic and parking and the hot summer day made us feel very drained. As we walked into the gate we saw about six hundred thousand people of all ethnicities and religions it
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should focus on the widespread and create individual “Negro” art. He famously wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”. Considered among the greatest poets in U.S. history‚ Hughes was one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry‚ poetry that “demonstrates jazz-like rhythm”. His works often portrayed the lives of middle class African Americans. Hughes was a proponent of creating distinctive “Negro” art and not falling for the “urge within the race toward whiteness”
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Rock History Assignment 4 One of the most influential genres‚ or sub genres‚ is about a 50/50 flip between folk rock and jazz rock. Both incorporate amazing rock beats and tones‚ (and awesome guitar riffs)‚ as well as a bridge between two other completely separate genres. I also find it hard to categorize a band into one specific genre. So many bands have so many songs that could be put into a different category. So while Johnny Cash could be a country artists or rockabilly‚ and even in some of
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