Konkoma highlife marching songs in recruiting the Black servicemen and increasing their morale for war. Ghanaian dance orchestra musicians who are proficient in the reading of music‚ and their counterparts – the foreign soldiers in Ghana who loved jazz and swing – entertained the troops through their bands‚ the Black and White Spots and the Tempos Swing Bands. In 1948‚ the Tempos became all-Ghanaian group lead by the renowned Ghanaian musician‚ E.T. Mensah as the foreign servicemen departed after
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Many people knew Louis Armstrong as the “first real genius of jazz”(Shipton 26). He was born in New Orleans‚ Louisiana on August 4‚ 1901. Louis was the illegitimate son of William Armstrong and Mary Est “Mayann” Albert. He was abandoned by his father‚ a boiler stoker‚ shortly after his birth and was raised by his paternal grandmother. Then‚ at the age of five‚ he was returned to the care of his mother‚ who at the time worked as a laundress. Together with his mom‚ they moved to a better area of New
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Desmond Coggins Prof. Richard Holsworth 1020 Survey of Jazz April 23‚ 2013 Paul Motian Born Stephen Paul Motian‚ an American jazz drummer‚ percussionist‚ and composer‚ in Philadelphia on March 25‚ 1931‚ he grew up in Providence and began playing the drums at age 12. They considered him an advanced improviser and a bandleader with a taste of challenging post-bop.His first musical attraction was guitar. Some people would consider him a late learner on the drums. Usually when it comes to music
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George Gershwin was an American composer and song writer of the early 19th hundreds. He was born on sept 26 1898 in Brooklyn New York to parents of Russian descent and would eventually become a composer of jazz‚ opera‚ and popular songs for the stage and screen. Gershwin began playing piano professionally in several New York night clubs after he dropped out of school at the age of 15. He began his career as a “song plugger”. A “song plugger” was a vocalist or a piano player who was employed in the
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problem‚ or maybe just make it better. But there’s a huge problem in it is some people do not understand other cultures’ music and they judge it by all kinds of bias. I would like to use this capstone project as a tool to create a talk and a concert just to bring two sides of the gap a little bit closer. Literature Review: Background: Asian and Western culture have so many differences‚ not only generally‚ but more specifically‚ music has a big role in it. Literatures have mainly discussed
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sought after musicians in America. A man of many eclectic genres‚ he composed jazz‚ opera and popular songs for stage and screen. Many of his works are now considered to be standards. Gershwin died immediately following his brain surgery on July 11‚ 1937‚ at the tragically young age of 38. George Gershwin is considered to be one of the most successful composers of the united states. Many of his compositions have become jazz standards which have survived from
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Stan Getz! Getz would “bug” Dizzy about getting Brazilian song repertoire since Getz would be more in the States and Diz would travel down a lot more (Gillespie 431). Gillespie made the distinction between what would eventually be commercialized in jazz as bossa nova and samba. In Gillespie’s judgment bossa nova was the watered down version of samba‚ which was its root. The complex rhythms in Samba were exhibited in instrumental sections‚ which consisted mostly of non-melodic instruments; Dizzy found
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Blue Order: Wallace Stevens’s Jazz Experiments Corey M. Taylor Journal of Modern Literature‚ Volume 32‚ Number 2‚ Winter 2009‚ pp. 100-117 (Article) Published by Indiana University Press DOI: 10.1353/jml.0.0048 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jml/summary/v032/32.2.taylor.html Access Provided by Purdue University at 08/22/12 4:11PM GMT Blue Order: Wallace Stevens’s Jazz Experiments Corey M. Taylor Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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There are some honorable mentions of black musicians who helped develop American music. These musicians include Billie Holiday‚ Tina Turner‚ Puff Daddy‚ and James Brown. Billie Holiday was considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time. She had a thriving career for many years until she lost her battle with substance abuse. Some of Billie’s most famous songs were “Gloomy Sunday”‚ “God Bless the Child”‚ and “Fine and Mellow”. Tina Turner rose to fame in the ‘60s
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young scholar enjoyed reading novels and furthering his knowledge of literature from around the world. As a young adult‚ Murakami valued the importance of jazz music. Specifically‚ in 1964‚ Murakami was gifted a concert ticket to see Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.( Newsmakers). Soon after‚ in 1974‚ he and his wife‚ Yoko Takahashi‚ opened a jazz bar in Tokyo‚ Japan‚ called Peter Cat. The reader can connect Murakami’s musical influence with his writing style by comparing his works to the way a song
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