Esperanza Spalding’s jazz musical qualities are exceptionally compared to the qualities of classical music. Esperanza Spalding is widely known as an African American jazz bassist. She was born October 18‚ 1984. Spalding has excelled as a composer‚ concertmaster‚ bandleader‚ vocalist‚ bassist‚ double bassist‚ violinist‚ cellist‚
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Breathing and Living Jazz For my Extended Project‚ I will be composing a Jazz and Blues inspired piece. Jazz is a style of music that originated in the United States of America and was used as a way to express one’s emotions. The syncopated rhythms and simple understructure have led to some of the most influential songs and musicians of the 20th century. The room to improvise is endless. It is often said‚ “in jazz there is no wrong note”. Since I am producing a jazz piece as my artefact‚ I thought
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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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difficult to define jazz because it has so many varieties. Almost all jazz styles have improvisations and swing feeling. Improvisation means compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat‚ syncopation‚ lilting quality‚ and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly syncopated style of improvising. Jazz musicians usually
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Revolution of the 1940s Essay Title No. 4 Name: Karen mc Donagh Student Number: 110333021 Module: Music and Ideas‚ Jazz Lecturer: Paul O Donnel Submission Date: 21-January-2011 Revolution; ‘the forcible overthrow of a government or social order‚ in favour of a new system’. [1] The 1940s saw one of the greatest musical revolutions of the 20th century‚ the transition of swing to bebop. Although the exact origins of the name are ambiguous‚ it is widely accepted that the name bears relation
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review will be a live jazz performance which you have attended this semester. Eligible performances would include nightclub appearances as well as formal concerts. The performance must be that of a jazz artist or group. Performances by blues bands or other jazz-related‚ but not actually jazz groups are not eligible subjects for this paper. If in doubt as to the appropriateness/eligibility of a given performance‚ please consult your instructor. Information concerning live jazz performances can be found
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needs for his Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies. Jared Blum‚ with his special guests (Megan Spurlock on the clarinet‚ Morgan Childres on the trombone‚ the Jazz Combo‚ the Jazz Essemble‚ and other special guests)‚ collectively performed nine pieces along with a medley that compromised of three songs at the concert. Prior to taking this course‚ one of the first questions that I asked myself was “what do I know about jazz?” I have always consociated jazz music with the African American culture
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seventh chords are found in pop‚ jazz‚ blues‚ and R&B music. Jazz musicians also improvise over a harmonic progression‚ known as changes which are a series of chords played in a strict rhythmic sequence. Composers also arrange triads into patterns called progressions. At the main points in the melody‚ the triads give the song a sense of forward movement ("progression"). Composers traditionally wrote progressions using only three or four different triads. However the jazz musicians of the "Bebop Era"
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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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is comfortable with. For example‚ a person might be able to swing a light bat at 45m/s but a heavier bat at 38m/s‚ therefore in theory the lighter bat would take a ball further because it has more velocity to transfer to the ball‚ right? Not quite‚ a heavier bat packs much more momentum and energy‚ so the force from that would make the ball go further‚ so the trick is actually swinging the heaviest bat that feels comfortable to swing‚ because when trying to hit the ball out of the field‚ this
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