South Carolina‚ on October 21‚ 1917‚ to his death in Englewood‚ New Jersey‚ on January 6‚ 1993. The jazz trumpet player is known for helping cofound bebop jazz‚ playing with puffed cheeks‚ playing a custom trumpet that had its bell bent at a 45 degree angle‚ and so much more. Dizzy Gillespie’s contributions to the jazz world go far beyond all that he touched and remains a crucial pioneer for jazz music. Dizzy Gillespie‚ born as John Birks Gillespie‚ was born to a local bandleader in South Carolina;
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Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities‚ the joy and spontaneity‚ and amazingly quick‚ inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on the history of Jazz as Louis Armstrong did. Like almost all early Jazz musicians‚ Louis was from New Orleans. He was from a very poor family and was sent to reform school when he was twelve
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in the 1940s with the jazz age alongside the genre of cool jazz‚ in which‚ “Jazz aficionados used the term to distinguish this style from the hot jazz…”(Quinion). Those who follow the idea that the term was first coined in Beowulf will agree with the popularity and increase of use during the 1940s‚ but will also say that the term had changed several times before‚ and is a cumulative result of those changes. While those supporting the belief that cool was born during the jazz age will reject the claims
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band based out of New Orleans. The band’s name comes from Preservation Hall in New Orleans where music is played every Wednesday and Saturday nights. The band is comprised of: Wendell Brunious playing trumpet. David Grillier playing the clarinet. Frank Demond playing the trombone. Narvin Kimball on the banjo. Benjamin Jaffe strumming the upright bass. Joseph Lastie on the drums. Rickie Monie at the piano. The songs that I chose are off the Preservation Hall Jazz Band CD title
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style of this concert is Jazz‚ and there are six main instruments of this concert‚ including‚ drum‚ saxphone‚ trumpet‚ piano‚ trombone and violoncello. These six instruments combine together and had played many beautify songs. There are no singer in during the concert‚ this performance just depend on these six instruments‚ so the instruments is the main part and take a absolute important position in this outside life Jazz concert. There are some backgroud about Jazz music. Jazz orginated at the beginning
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Louis Armstrong moved to Chicago in 1922 to play the second cornet in a Creole jazz band. Although two years later Armstrong moved to New York City and began playing music with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra at the Roseland Ballroom. In 1929 he made his first Broadway appearance. In his recording of “Ain’t Misbehavin” he used a pop song‚ however‚ interpreted through jazz. That will help set the stage for jazz
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BS Biology 1A Prof. Felipa Oliquino PE 2 SWING DANCING HISTORY The swing dance is not a single form/kind of dance but a group of various dances which developed in the earlier half of the twentieth century. These dance forms flourished with jazz or swing style of music. The origin of these swing dances can be traced back to the vernacular African-American dance forms. Today‚ the most popular form of swing dancing is Lindy Hop. In fact‚ many of the swing dance forms have descended from Lindy
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adopted itself to many musical styles‚ ranging from jazz to rock and roll. The musical sound of the Blues is also found in many other non-vernacular styles such as 20th century classical music. Regional Styles and their Evolution WC Handy received a lot of credit for discovering BlackAmerican musical genres. Once he found something he would then turn around a sell the rights for profit. He also claimed in his memoirs to be the first Jazz musician. Despite some of these inaccurate claims‚ Handy
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can be described as the cornerstone of jazz music. Having sold over 20 million copies‚ it has gone on to influence generations of musicians to come. Even to this day it is currently selling 5000 copies per week. It is nothing short of a masterpiece and these six tracks of brilliant improvisation will leave you in a better mood by the end of it. Through the modal sketches of Davis‚ this album takes you on a mysterious and beautiful journey into the world of jazz. The word on the street is that Miles
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of twelve. Bacharach enjoyed playing piano very much but he never really planned on making a musical career off of his abilities and it wasn’t until he heard the fine flowing movements and melodies of Jazz that it would change his musical talent into a passion. Bacharach loved everything about jazz an would do anything to hear it‚ even going as
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