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    of R&B music; it was born in the 1980s (“Rhythm and Blues”). For the following paragraphs‚ I am going to evaluate the characteristics and styles of Original R&B and Contemporary R&B music. Generally speaking‚ R&B music is the “‘urbane‚ rocking‚ jazz based music with a heavy‚ insistent beat’” (“Rhythm and Blues”). Both Original R&B and Contemporary R&B possess this characteristic; however‚ Original R&B music has a slower and softer beat since it is played as a smooth and soulful music. Original

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    City‚ and learned about life from the pimps‚ gamblers‚ prostitutes‚ thieves‚ and other denizens of the streets who inhabited his childhood world.  He went to the Fisk School for Boys‚ the same school that Buddy Bolden‚ the man credited with inventing jazz‚ had attended.  He stayed in school until he was eleven‚ but finally abandoned academic pursuits to try and make his way on the streets.  He worked for a Jewish merchant named Morris Karnofsky who showed the boy kindness and even advanced him five

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    the other hand‚ the tenor throughout the song‚ has a walking bass line rhythm playing quarter notes on each beat in a lower pitched octave‚ ultimately having the job of being the background tempo keeper. On the contrary‚ one of the most famous Latin jazz piece‚ “A Night in Tunisia” showcases the tenor‚ with the alto in the background. Throughout the whole tune‚ the tenor leads the band with call-and-response rhythms‚ and takes the lead with complex harmonic structured melodies. The song then takes

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    Biography: Louis Armstrong

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    lived a prosperous life with a lot of success and an equal amount of downfalls. Louis Armstrong’s story goes back to over one hundred years ago. Nicknamed Satch‚ Satchmo‚ Satchelmouth‚ Dipper‚ and Dippermouth Louis Armstrong took over and changed the jazz industry to what we know it as today. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4‚ 1901 in New Orleans‚ Louisiana. His father‚ William Armstrong‚ abandoned the family during Louis’ infant years. Louis Armstrong’s mother‚ Mayann Armstrong was a prostitute

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    hosted major jazz clubs during the swing and the bebop era. Minton’s Playhouse – a Harlem jazz club that saw the emergence of bebop and hosted artists such as Dizzy Gillespie‚ Charlie Christian. the house band included Thelonious Monk on piano‚ Joe Guy on trumpet‚ Nick Fenton on bass‚ and Kenny Clarke on drums. Billy Strayhorn – famous for his collaboration with Duke Ellington. Billy Berg’s – jazz club in Hollywood. Lionel Hampton – one of the first to use the vibraphone in jazz. Part of Benny

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    named‚ Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There he got his feet with musical instrument the cornet and began to fall in love with music. In 1914‚ he was released from the home‚ and he immediately began to dream of making music and becoming a professional jazz musician. Although‚ he still had other various side jobs such as selling newspapers and hauling coal to the city’s famed red-light district‚ he began to earning himself a reputation of as a fine blues player. Around that time one of the greatest

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    Joni Mitchell : Shadows and Light 
 Joni Mitchell is an accomplished musician‚ songwriter‚ poet and painter. In her own words: “I looked like a folksinger‚ even though the moment I began to write‚ my music was not folk music. It was something else that had elements of romantic classicism to it.” Hard to classify‚ Mitchell has pursued her ways of self-expression‚ heedless of commercial outcomes. She connected with a huge audience in the mid-Seventies when a series of albums – Court and Spark

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    Louis Armstrong Essay

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    greatest Jazz players of the time. Armstrong’s fame grew exponentially and ended up not only leaving remarkable impacts on the genre of Jazz in general‚ but he “set a number of African-American ‘firsts’. In 1936‚ he became the first African-American jazz musician to write an autobiography‚ get featured billing in a major Hollywood movie‚ [and] host a nationally sponsored radio show in 1937” (“Louis Armstrong”). With his death in 1971‚ he left behind a legacy of being a revolutionary trumpeter‚ Jazz musician

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    prime time prohibition era in the city of New Orleans. Music is blasting‚ the alcohol is freely flowing‚ and there are crowds of dancing flappers and dapper gentlemen all over the French Quarter. For decades‚ New Orleans has been the epicenter for jazz music in America. It is essential to the culture‚ economy‚ and history of the city. Over the last few years‚ however‚ some of New Orleans’s city officials seem to think the beat has left the city‚ and its personality is suffering because of it. Others

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    Mobilink Jazz

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    to thank Mr.Faisal Wajid (procurement and contract executive) who provided us information about Mobilink Jazz. Last but not the least‚ we would like to thank our Principles of Marketing Instructor‚ Ma’am Zeenat Jabbar‚ who gave us an opportunity to make this project and learn a lot about marketing. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The project in your hands follows a marketing plan in which Mobilink Jazz is discussed. The plan is simple yet with changes to Mobilink Jazz’s marketing plan. The document

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