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    Jazz and World War II: Reciprocal Effects and Relationships Both Jazz music and World War II had a significant impact on each other. Jazz music boosted the morale of soldiers fighting abroad and also lifted the spirits of their loved ones back at home. Many jazz musicians were soldiers‚ and several others traveled overseas or across the country to entertain U.S. troops. Among these performers were Bing Crosby‚ Artie Shaw‚ and Benny Carter. Jazz music was not only evident in American culture‚ but

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    contemporary jazz artist. Initially‚ I chose him because his name sounded familiar and I wanted to choose an artist from the list of saxophonists. Moreover‚ the content of his discography was fascinating by its inclusion of several jazz albums with the Branford Marsalis Quartet as well as other collaborative projects and a solo project. Among the list was the album‚ Music Redeems‚ with performances by The Marsalis Family‚ is a collaboration with his father‚ Ellis Marsalis Jr.‚ who is an esteemed jazz pianist

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    The Jazz music of the Big Band Era was the pinnacle of more than thirty years of melodic advancement. Jazz was so creative and diverse that it could truly clear the world‚ changing the melodic styles of about each nation. Enormous band Jazz that makes the feet tap and the heart race with fervor that it is perceived with almost every kind of music. The melodic and social upset that achieved Jazz was an immediate consequence of African-Americans seeking after vocations in expressions of the human experience

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    TECHNIQUE OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG Louis Armstrong is widely known as a founding father of jazz. His abilities and inventive musical mind have given to music a style that still dominates jazz today. His innovations changed the face of jazz music and have influenced many‚ filtering down and contributing to rock and roll. In his instrumental music‚ Louis Armstrong revolutionized jazz. Prior to his arrival as a jazz performer‚ the emphasis was always with the band as a whole and not with an individual

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    In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Ellison makes strong connections between the musical jazz elements and the Battle Royal excerpt of the novel. The jazz element of improvisation is described to be spontaneous‚ on the spot‚ composing to come up with different melodies and is the prominent element used by Ellison in the Battle Royal excerpt of the novel. Ellison uses these spontaneous moments like that of the jazz element of improvisation to allow our narrator‚ the invisible man to take control‚ while

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    Jazz is one of the greatest music genres of all time. There are 3 main types of jazz that we have studied this year – bebop‚ swing and cool jazz. While today jazz may not be mainstream music that is heard on the radio‚ there was a time between 1930 and 1955 where it was. In this research project I am going to be comparing the famous jazz compositions‚ “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck and “C-Jam Blues” by Duke Ellington. Both pieces were chart-topping and achieved incredible mainstream success‚ with “Take

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    Tap & Jazz! A Skill For A Lifetime! As a child I wasn’t able to participate in too many activities. I had two other siblings and it just wasn’t feasible for my parents to enroll us in a lot of extracurricular events. My sister took ballet as a child. I would attend classes with her and I would watch her perform her routines. I became interested in what she did but I didn’t think “ballet” was for me‚ but I did want to participate in some form of performing arts. I liked to dance but ballet was too

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    Fruit The Jazz Influence on Their Eyes Were Watching God In the late 1930’s‚ during the Harlem Renaissance‚ when Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God was written‚ the sounds of jazz and blues music filled the air (Hurston). Revolutionary artists such as Duke Elington‚ Teddy Wilson and Bessie Smith became household names as African-Americans began to develop a reputation for themselves as musicians (Blackburn). Among these artists was Billie Holiday‚ "the first popular jazz singer

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    Jazz Music Developed in about 1900‚ Jazz music has been an influence in many artist’s work‚ from painting to other forms of music. Jazz is an American music form that was developed from African-American work songs. Jazz music was developed about 1900 by black Americans. It possesses an identifiable history and describable stylistic evolution. European classical music‚ American blues‚ and South American songs and rhythms came together to form what became known as jazz. Jazz has borrowed from black

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    The Jazz Age lasted from 1915-1935‚ and the music created during that time period has left a lasting impression on American pop culture. The music still has a large fan base‚ and can be found in numerous books and movies. Biographies and movies have been made about people like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington‚ who made huge contributions to jazz. However‚ many of jazz artists from that time period died without much money or fame. Jazz originated in New Orleans‚ and traveled on to Chicago and New

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