Smooth Jazz is a genre of music. As you can tell by its name‚ the music is quite smooth‚ cool. You can also tell that it doesn’t really use swingy rhythms. Some people call it Cool Jazz and it can also be called Contemporary Jazz‚ they’re all the same thing. Smooth Jazz started in 1985. It lost its popularity in 2008. People changed their tastes in music. They got more interested into more new and modern music. Smooth Jazz is like a combination of jazz and smooth R&B. In Smooth Jazz‚ the piano
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For the second time in my life I attended another jazz concert. On Wednesday‚ November 30‚ 2016 I went to the Morgy Craig Annual Memorial Jazz Scholarship Award Concert and it was put on by the Ball State Jazz Ensembles. The setting of the concert was at Sursa Hall‚ which sits on the corner of Riverside and McKinley Avenues‚ and is a beautiful concert hall that is brick on the outside and on the inside has wood paneling. The concert I found to be very incredible overall and twice as better as the
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I have ever been to. The variety of instruments and style of the performers contributed to a unique experience. Not only was the music I heard versatile on several levels‚ but the behavior of the performers‚ appearance of the audience‚ and atmosphere of the venue contributed to my take away from the show. These factors allowed me to obtain a better understanding of jazz as not only an art form‚ but as a culture. The audience was the first thing I noticed when entering the venue. Most of the attendees
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Music 118B Concert Report #1 Jazz Combos Concert Evaluation Before taking Jazz class I barely knew anything about this type music. Six different bands performed fifteen pieces. Most of the pieces are written by popular Jazz composers‚ such as “Cantaloupe Island” by Herbie Hancock or “Donna Lee” by Charlie Parker. Also‚ there was one band that performed pieces written by its members‚ which really impressed me. For example‚ “Preparation” was composed by Alex Reiff‚ who plays bass in the band
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Jazz was born in New Orleans through the rich diversity of the people that populated the state. New Orleans had a spectrum of races like mention in lecture “White men and women‚ and of all hues of brown‚ and of all Classes of faces‚ from round Yankees to grisly and lean Spaniards‚ black Negroes and negresses‚ curly and straight-haired‚ Quadroons of all shades…) The spectrum of races allowed for the blending of cultures which lead to the creation new music. The music in new Orleans originated in slaves
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Jazz I chose the form of dance called Jazz because it is the most fun to work with. Jazz dance is more of my style because it isn’t slow‚ it’s more of an upbeat exciting dance to learn. I’m more interested in hip-hop instead of slow boring dances. Jazz can really keep you entertained also. Jazz is much different from any other dance you’ll learn‚ and in my opinion the best dance. Instead of learning one dance‚ Jazz is all the dances put together‚ and that is why it is the most fun of all. Jazz
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James Baldwin ’s essay "Sonny ’s Blues" is a story of the struggle of a jazz musician‚ Sonny‚ growing up in the harlem renaissance. It is told by the musician ’s brother who takes Sonny into his own home after being released from heroin rehabilitation. The story examines Sonny ’s path as a musician but has an underlying theme of the suffrage and attempted escape of Harlem residents at this point in history. Baldwin justifies Sonny ’s drug habit by showing empathy for his struggle to obtain creative
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Byron C Brown Melinda Rogers Introduction to Music MUS-123 February 24‚ 2013 A Brief History of the Growth of Jazz This music‚ first practiced by African Americans and Creoles‚ before being adopted also by Euro-American musicians‚ probably akin to archaic Jazz. We do‚ however‚ no documentation about it‚ other than oral testimony to writing. There is indeed a dimension of jazz that makes it both original and elusive in these crucial years between the last two centuries: improvisation. Before
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Blues is the root of modern pop music. Blues is after the civil war‚ by American black Africans in poor underlying life creates music. In the process of development‚ as the change of black life circumstances and the thought emotion‚ it has experienced the change of different style. Its on the development of contemporary pop music in the world is produced an indelible effect. In this paper‚ the development course of Blues‚ to explore the impact of its pop music to the world. Blues music is
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Reconnection While the struggle to individually survive is inherent in Toni Morrison’s Jazz‚ what stands out more is the way companionship helps the characters to survive. The relationships that develop within the story are potent in their effects on characters‚ especially Joe Trace‚ a fifty-three year old man struggling with a failing marriage. Trying to fulfill his own desires‚ he has an affair. But because he kills Dorcas‚ his young lover who does not truly love him‚ Joe finds himself isolated
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