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    throughout the song is as recognizable to the jazz world as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony’s “da-da-da-DUM” is to the classical world. It is a supreme love for Coltrane’s biggest influence: his creator. Born and raised in the Southeast during the height of the segregation era‚ Coltrane sought comfort and unity in his local church. He expressed his love for the church by taking up clarinet for the community band. Coltrane shifted his interests towards jazz in high school thanks to the musicality of Lester

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    Afrobeat music was originated by Fela Anikulapo Kuti which became a unique popular kind of music emanating from Africa. Afrobeat is the fusion of different western stylistic elements including jazz with the with traditional Yoruba music. Afrobeat music by Fela Anikulapo Kuti is characterised by his distinct personality. A SHORT BACKGROUND ON FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI Fela Anikulapo Kuti was born on October 15‚1938 to the family of Reverend Israel Ransome Kuti at Abeokuta in Ogun State‚ Nigeria. At

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    In “What is Jazz Part 1”‚ I heard “Tom Vaguely”‚ “Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child”‚ “St. Louis Blues”‚ and “Picture This”. Listening to the first piece‚ “Tow Vaguely”‚ I saw a busy Monday morning in the city. People in suits and hats carried their business bags‚ passing each other by on the sidewalk. The brief bass solo in the middle of the piece gave me the image of cars crossing the streets along side the pedestrians. The short clip of the sorrow song‚ “I Feel like a Motherless Child”

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    School May 6th‚ 2013 Jazz is considered by numerous the best contribution the United States has made to the art of music. In the 1920s‚ Jazz evolved from a New Orleans styled music‚ now called Dixieland‚ to a more successful music labeled Swing. Instead of mimicking traditional music‚ jazz is an improvisational music style. As a result‚ jazz became the most dominant form of dance music in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s made it an easy target for hate. Jazz created its own rules which

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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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    MARKETING PLAN for entertaiment youth club I. Executive Summary This marketing plan was designed for a entertainment club ‚ which is a small‚ cozy‚ family owned club specializing in authentic and traditional acoustic jazz music. In addition to the music and the upscale atmosphere‚ youth club’s offers a wide selection of alcoholic beverages and appetizers. This plan outlines in the following pages‚ a renewed vision and strategic focus of what it will take to run a successful

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    Bebop Music Analysis

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    life would be In music there are many genres. Jazz is one of the genre in music. Jazz is a music of West African influenced by European music and popular American music styles ( Lawn‚ 2007). “ Jazz can be described generally as a music rooted in improvisation and characterized by syncopated rhythm‚ a steady beat‚ and distinctive tone colors and performance techniques” (Kamien‚ 2015‚ p. 468). However‚ according to a journal by Megill and Demory(1989)‚ Jazz music is not only an improvisation of melody

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    result of many factors; The slave trade‚ exiled Acadians‚ and adventurers chasing easy money in an active port city are a few of the reasons why New Orleans is an American anomaly. One of New Orleans most noteworthy exports is jazz. First thought of as the “Devil’s Music” jazz eventually became immensely popular and well respected among many people‚ including for example‚ young people in the roaring twenties‚ when it was the popular music of its day. It gave way for some African American and creole

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    learned various styles of jazz with the explanation of different singers’ jazz songs. Before taking this class‚ I just thought the jazz was all about swing style; which is from New Orleans Jazz style with big bands and collective sounds. However‚ through this class‚ I realized that there is more than swing style‚ which are bebop‚ cool‚ hard bop‚ Chicago style and so on. It was interesting to see how different types there are inside one genre called ‘jazz’‚ when I thought jazz was already just one genre

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    should focus on the widespread and create individual “Negro” art. He famously wrote about the period that “the negro was in vogue”. Considered among the greatest poets in U.S. history‚ Hughes was one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry‚ poetry that “demonstrates jazz-like rhythm”. His works often portrayed the lives of middle class African Americans. Hughes was a proponent of creating distinctive “Negro” art and not falling for the “urge within the race toward whiteness”

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