a performance by the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Founded and headed by Bandleader Dave Sporny this professional big band played rare and historically big band works to some of the newest original contemporary jazz music. The Amherst Brewing Company looked small from the outside‚ even when I got inside there were many dining tables and a small place by the window for a fifteen piece band to fit in. Surprisingly they all fit perfectly. They took their seats and were about to start performance. Every musician
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B00644905 MUSC 2020‚ History of Jazz Thursday‚ October 21st Writing assignment 1: Concert Report Since I have been in university‚ most talk of live music has revolved around “what club has a special on tonight?” or “which DJ is going to be in town this weekend?” I have nothing against electronic music but sitting in a packed bar near the Halifax Harbor listening to jazz and conversing in a booth with my friends‚ instead of shouting to clear the volume of dance music‚ has been one of the most enjoyable
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The purpose of this paper is to show the beginnings of Jazz and how it transformed and developed through the decades. What I needed to research‚ was how jazz all began and how it evolved. How did it start? Who were the people that were involved in the beginning? Where did it begin? How did it evolve into what jazz is today? Jazz had its beginnings in Africa. Before the slave trade‚ tribes in Africa had there own rhythms‚ instruments‚ and dances. It was the slave trade brought by ships to South America
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Jazz is one of the more wide known forms of music around the world -- it is all around us whether we realize it or not. Jazz styles are in songs throughout many time periods ranging from around 1895 to present day. When we break down a song into its simplest forms‚ there are certain common jazz styles that are present. Most listeners do not realize that what they are hearing is some form of jazz in one way or another. There have been many influential artists who played an influential role in jazz’s
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Art Center for Pat Harrison’s jazz ensemble’s performance‚ which started at 8pm. Since this is a big bang group‚ there are many different instrumentation. For the horn section‚ there are two alto saxophones‚ two tenor saxophones‚ and one baritone saxophone; trumpets and flugelhorns; trombones and bass trombone. For the rhythm section‚ there are piano‚ guitar‚ double bass‚ drums and vibraphone. Personally‚ among all those different genres of music‚ I like big bang jazz a lot because of the colorful
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The Jazz Age was a cultural movement that began around 1918‚ post WWI. It was born in New Orleans but later spread around the world‚ it was a beautiful mixture of jazz and march banding styled music and was often played by African-Americans. It was the first time that people began to move to the cities rather than in rural areas. It was the first time that African American were given the opportunity to progress in a society that failed them since the ending our slavery. After the war‚ new trends
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Chapter 1 Listening to Jazz McGraw-Hill/Irwin © 2013 McGraw-Hill Companies. All Rights Reserved. Overview Jazz has been described as “America’s Classical Music” - the first musical style to have a specific American Identity. 1-2 Jazz developed out of many diverse musical and cultural influences at the beginning of the 20th century. 19th century photo of a group of African American Minstrels 1-3 The absence of recordings or written examples of the earliest jazz results in subjective historical
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Black Face‚ Blue Notes and Whiteman The early growth and rapid expansion of popular American music in late nineteenth and early twentieth century America had widespread and irreversible effects on not only the growing black population‚ but also on America as a whole. The growth and evolution of music in this period‚ though fraught with racism and obstacles for the black performer‚ prepared the nation for the cultural revolution that allowed for the improvement of race relations and‚ ultimately
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The History and Characteristics of the origins of JAZZ! The American/Africans are a major part of the history of jazz. Jazz originated from the African American slave trade. In Africa‚ natives danced to celebrate cycles of life; birth‚ puberty‚ marriage and death. Children‚ adults and the elderly all depended on dance to express to express their cultural beliefs. Drums‚ string instruments‚ chimes‚ reedpipes and other percussion instruments set the beat for the dancers. Slaves continued to interpret
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" The Jazz Age in France" was a decade where many artists that weren’t getting recognition for their work‚ came to France and exposed their talent to the western powers. Among the artists were Picasso‚ Ernest Hemingway‚ E.E Cummings and Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was an African-American jazz performance artist who sang‚ danced and acted. The fact that she was African-American gave people a different
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