Charlie Parker (1920 1955) Charlie Parker spent his childhood in Kansas City‚ Missouri‚ one of the hottest jazz spots in the country. His father was looking for jobs as a song and dance man so he moved the family there to find work. Unable to find a job‚ Charlie’s dad left to go work on the railroad. He had to travel long distances and was gone a lot of the time. In the end‚ he left the family altogether and Charlie’s mom had to provide for the two of them. Sometimes‚ she worked two or three
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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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Physics PENDULUM INVESTIGATION Aim of the investigation The aim of the pendulum investigation is to see what will happen if I change a variable whilst I swing a pendulum and see the effect which it has on the pendulums time to complete one whole swing (from where it starts‚ to the opposite end‚ and back again). This will give me an insight into what will effect the time of the swinging of the pendulum‚ be it weight‚ string length‚ the angle‚ or the swinging point. Planning my investigation
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“Bebop”‚ or “Bop”‚ is a form of Jazz that began to circulate during the 1940’s and is widely recognised as a fast tempo‚ highly improvised derivation of Swing Jazz of the 1930’s. The term “Bebop” itself is derived from the scat singing used within the aforementioned genre as “Bebop” and “Rebop” were common and‚ occasionally‚ interchanged phrases within the music. It hasn’t influenced many genres out with Jazz (“West Coast Jazz”‚ “Modal Jazz” and “Cool Jazz” all being seen as developed from the styles
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basic golf swing. The better the player is at putting the golf club on the golf ball‚ the lower their score is going to be. Of course‚ learning to do that is no small task. The basic golf swing often violates the kinetics of how the body normally functions. After factoring in the notion a golfer is trying to hit a golf ball with a "sweet spot" on the club of about one inch‚ it becomes easier to understand why so few individuals can make a living with a golf club. The Basic Golf Swing Due to several
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himself into the Jazz scene in 1921‚ at the very beginning of the Jazz age and the roaring 20’s. He played alongside the travelling blues and vaudeville star‚ Mamie Smith. After playing this background role for 2 years‚ he joined Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra. This would reinvent Coleman Hawkins as a lead soloist and a big star of American jazz‚ a title that he retained for more than 40 years (Yanow). Hawkins should be included in this course because he was a major part of the swing jazz and big band
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change of Jazz music that succeeded swing music. This paper’s aim is look at musicians who impacted this era‚ exploring more in depth Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the early 1940’s‚ the swing bands began to all sound the same as well as work along predictable chord changes.1 The music was now not used for dancing. Some people believed that this would let the music go away from the elite social groups‚ and now be for everybody. Also just because a musician could play swing music well
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in the hands of jazz musicians in New Orleans. There were multiple types of jazz such as New Orleans jazz which was popular during the 1870’s until the 1920’s‚ Ragtime (1890-1930)‚ The Jazz Era (1920-1930)‚ the Big Band/Swing Era (1930’s-1940’s)‚ the Bebop Era (1940’s- 1950’s)‚ The Avant Guard Era (late 1950’s)‚ Free Jazz (late 1950’s)‚ and Fusion (1960’s-1970’s). However‚ when jazz was in the beginning stages the trombone was more often used as a single instrument. Early jazz bands consisted of
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Small Changes Make Big Differences A living jazz legend once exclaimed “jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.” Herbie Hancock makes it clear that jazz has been an evolving form of art. And just as simple as the notion that music can change the world‚ music changes in itself. Jazz once evolved into something we call swing. Back in the roaring twenties people got up and danced to this kind of music. However‚ these simple and playful melodies
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if‚ it ain’t got that swing." Considered one of the best jazz writers ever‚ Duke Ellington had a huge effect on the prevalent music of the late twentieth century. Among his more than two thousand melodies are such hits as "In A Nostalgic Mind-set‚" "Refined Woman‚" "I Got It Awful And That Ain’t Great‚" and "I’m Starting To See The Light." For nearly fifty years‚ he visited the world as a band pioneer and piano player. Today his recordings stay among the most prevalent jazz of the enormous band period
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