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    composer is Miles Davis and it was composed in 1959. the style of the piece is Jazz and another example of Jazz is Louis Armstrong (trumpet/cornet/voice) Terrible Blues with his band the Red Onion Jazz Babies. Background Miles Davis was born in Illinois in May 1926. He knew from a very young early age that he wanted to be a musician. He started learning the trumpet at a young age‚ looking up to his heroes Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Charlie Parker‚ eventually took Davis on as his ‘sideman’

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    Abraham Lincoln‚ the sixteenth president of the United States of America‚ and Jefferson Davis‚ the first and only President of the Confederate States of America‚ share many similarities and differences in their education‚ presidency‚ military experience‚ and political standpoint. Both Davis and Lincoln grew up in a family of poverty-stricken standards‚ and had been born near each other in distance‚ and time. Abraham and Jefferson both served in the Black Hawk War in 1831‚ though Lincoln did not

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    The bloodiest war in American history‚ led by Abraham Lincoln for the north‚ and Jefferson Davis for the south‚ both presidents‚ but two different sides. Both garner for peace‚ yet one is willing to start a war‚ while the other is willing to accept it. This essay will compare and contrast the political‚ economical‚ and social outlooks on Lincoln’s and Davis’ Inaugural addresses throughout the civil war between the North and South. Slavery‚ laws‚ and state rights drove the South to start a war‚ and

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    starts when I wake up every morning. Everyday I find something creative to do with my life” (Davis 4). Miles Davis is the individual that made jazz the way it is today. Miles Davis still is a leading and influential figure in jazz ( Davis 1). When most people hear the word trumpet‚ they automatically picture Miles. His weird personality and his bizarre characteristics‚ make him a legend in the music scene. Davis explored many different sides of jazz‚ and went out of his way to be different. Growing up

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    copies per week. It is nothing short of a masterpiece and these six tracks of brilliant improvisation will leave you in a better mood by the end of it. Through the modal sketches of Davis‚ this album takes you on a mysterious and beautiful journey into the world of jazz. The word on the street is that Miles Davis only gave extremely brief instructions to the musicians as to what to play for each song. The way he went about recording this album marked a difference in his musical journey. Basing

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    May 26‚ 1926 in Alton‚ Illinois‚ a true legend of Jazz music was born. Miles Dewey Davis III‚ son of Miles Dewey Davis II and Cleota Mae Davis‚ was the middle child in the family. Miles had an older sister‚ Dorothy Mae Davis and a little brother‚ Vernon Davis. Both of his parents worked‚ making enough money live a middle-class lifestyle in a household which was located in a white neighborhood. His dad was a dental surgeon and his mother worked as a music teacher and a violinist‚ which justifies that

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    10/26/2012 Word Count: 810 The Dilemma of our Drink: Investigating The Woodland-Davis Water Project In September 2009‚ two cities of Yolo County‚ Woodland and Davis‚ collaborated to form a “joint powers authority to implement and oversee a regional surface water supply project‚” (www.wdcwa.com/the_project). The objective is to gain a new surface water supply from the Sacramento River and construct a number of joint facilities to pump‚ treat and distribute the water to the cities’ customers

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    Jazz: Jazz Review Kind of Blue – Miles Davis Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue exemplifies my favorite merits of cool jazz. The bestselling jazz album is bursting with innovative music that is largely independent from the routine melody and rhythm that often accompanied jazz music before the records conception; its recordings perpetuate a sound that is both tranquil and engaging. The artists responsible for creating this widely recognized album are Miles Davis on trumpet‚ Jon Coltrane on tenor saxophone

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    of each are the results of the collision of traditionally African rhythms and musical techniques with European classical and popular music genre. Each are adored American styles of music. Miles Davis “So What” and Robert Johnson’s “Cross Roads Blues” have some similarities and some differences. Miles Davis “So What” is Modal Jazz‚ used whole band tenor Saxophone‚ Alto Saxophone‚ Piano‚ Drums‚ trumpet‚ bass‚ and emphasis on melody and rhythms whereas Robert Johnson’s

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    people assuming they have known the plot brush it off immediately they hear just the name of the protagonist? Martin Guerre may be one of those names‚ but it figures prominently in the title of the book The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis. Banal though the title sounds‚ the historian never intended to regurgitate what the reader may have known but to engage in “a different way of telling about the past.” Her revisionist interpretation of the story of Guerre‚ however controversial‚

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