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    Jazz Swing Era

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    Many more ballads with jazz interpretation • Music often for dancing Music become a big business • Recordings were now very important • Recording companies now exercised control over music • Record salesbecame the determining factor of success‚ (popularity vs. quality issue) commercialism • Arrangements & improvised solos confined to much less time in order to adjust to three minute records to fit in juke boxes • Situation doesn’t change until 1948 with 33 1/3 rpm records About

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    Jazz Concert History

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    Jazz has been in the white house almost as long as it has existed‚ but on national jazz day‚ which is April 30th‚ President Obama hosted a jazz concert. This concert featured a wide variety of artists including Chick Corea‚ Robert Glasper‚ Esperanza Spalding‚ Aretha Franklin‚ Wayne Shorter‚ and many others. During this performance‚ there are thirteen different “groups” or different artists that sung at the white house for jazz day. The first performance after president Obama spoke was Aretha

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    Jazz Concert Report

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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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    Blue like Jazz

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    In chapter fourteen in “Blue like Jazz”‚ Miller writes “when a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone‚ because it isn’t good for a person to be alone”(Miller 158). Miller states that God created human kind to have communities and not to be alone. Throughout Millers lifetime‚ he lived alone for years and discovered the only thing that it led too was self-obsession. He soon learned how wrong this action was and how he needed to change his selfish ways in

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    National Jazz Hall

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    QSO-640 Midterm Robert Wilson Question 1 The project that Mr. Rutland is trying to manage is establishing maintaining a National Jazz Hall of Fame(NJHF) in Charlottesville‚ VA. The NHJF was created and has been in existence for about one year. Now‚ Mr. Rutland has found that the Paramount Theatre in downtown Charlottesville‚ which shares it’s name with a famous jazz hall from the 1930s and 40s in New York City‚ is about to be demolished and would like to save and renovate

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    negative feelings towards the reactor‚ it can be concurred that a defensive reaction will take place. These defensive reactions take place all the time. To display this‚ I examined an episode from Seth Macfarlane’s Family Guy. The episode I watched was Once Bitten‚ season thirteen‚ episode sixteen. This particular episode started with The family dog Brian feeling ill‚ so after taking him into the veterinary clinic‚ they discovered that his liver was not working at full capacity. To counteract that‚ they

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    In the Law and Order episode‚ “The Harvest” the decision that is made in court‚ is my decision as well. Both Dr. Cosgrove and Elias are completely guilty. In the beginning‚ Nancy O’Neal is riding home with her husband‚ Marty‚ in the car on the passenger’s side. Not intended as the target‚ Nancy is shot by an unknown shooter. This wound ultimately puts her in the hospital unresponsive. Detectives Briscoe and Curtis easily track down the shooter known as Elias Camacho. Elias stated that he just intended

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    Jazz Music In The 1920s

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    would create new dances and the new jazz music got people excited and since women were given more rights they felt free which helped the arts grow. New dances moves followed this new genre and people went wild. Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the early 1900s. This genre spread throughout the country‚ filling streets‚ coffee shops‚ and even speakeasies. Some people say the jazz actually started in the late 1800s but wasn’t recorded until the 1920s. Jazz music is created by improvisation‚

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    Jazz Guide Book

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    vii INTRODUCTION I. REVIEW of BASIC THEORY MATERIALS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Chromatic Scale Intervals and Inversions Major Scale Construction Minor Scale Construction Circle of Fifths Scale Degree Names Key Signatures and Order of Accidentals Common Notation Errors II. RHYTHM in JAZZ PERFORMANCE 10 11 12 15 18 19 21 22 28 29 38 41 42 47 48 Polyrhythms Swing Eighth Note Accents and Articulations Rhythmic Roles Harmonic Rhythm in Jazz Performance The Larger View: Form as Rhythmic Structure Placement of the

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    Origins of Jazz Dance

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    Origins of Jazz Dance in American Culture The varieties of jazz dance reflect the diversity of American culture. Jazz dance mirrors the social history of the American people‚ reflecting ethnic influences‚ historic events and cultural changes. Jazz dance has been greatly influenced by social dance and desired music. Like so much that is “from America‚” the history of jazz dance commences somewhere else. The origins of Jazz music and dance are found in the rhythms and movements brought to America

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