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    Concert Report Analysis of Coltrane Jazz Concert There is definitely a difference between seeing a live performance and listening to it on the radio or on a compact disc. Listening to live music is definitely a wonderful way to spend a Saturday night. I went to a jazz concert at the Bluebird. It was a beautiful experience. I thought it was a throw back to the days where television was in black and white. It was a very intimate setting between the band and the audience. The band was very

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    Annotated Bibliography: The power struggle in “Sonny’s Blues” Baldwin‚ James. Sonnys Blues. 10th ed. N.p.: publisher‚ 1957. Print. This article discusses how an unnamed narrator in “Sonny’s Blues” discovers from a newspaper that his younger brother‚ Sonny‚ has been arrested for selling and using heroin. It shows a inside view of the narrators feeling towards his brother Sonny. In the story “Sonny’s Blues” you will see how concerned he becomes about his brother. You will see a great deal of

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    and sounds of the Etowah Jazz Society. The concert was from 9pm to 12 am in the morning. There look is like a big band but they have a swing feel to them. The bands whole persona is that of a big band that you would see on a dance television show back in the older days. There sound was very mellow and not loud at all. After Monique talked to a couple of the members in the band I found out that there influences on music where commonly set around the swing era‚ big band jazz‚ and Natalie Cole. The band

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    Jazz Vs Prowl

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    Prowl was a mech not used to being touched. It was to be expected after all. The only person who ever touched him without it being a part of their job was Jazz. Jazz was a unique mech who was always physical with his appreciation of people. It was the different cultures on Cybertron that led to their stances on physical touch. Jazz was a mech who thrived on touching and being touched whereas Prowl could enjoy it but it was something he didn’t care going without. He’d gotten used to Jazz’s touch

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    Why Did Jazz Start?

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    The purpose of this paper is to show the beginnings of Jazz and how it transformed and developed through the decades. What I needed to research‚ was how jazz all began and how it evolved. How did it start? Who were the people that were involved in the beginning? Where did it begin? How did it evolve into what jazz is today? Jazz had its beginnings in Africa. Before the slave trade‚ tribes in Africa had there own rhythms‚ instruments‚ and dances. It was the slave trade brought by ships to South America

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    Music 118B Concert Report #1 Jazz Combos Concert Evaluation Before taking Jazz class I barely knew anything about this type music. Six different bands performed fifteen pieces. Most of the pieces are written by popular Jazz composers‚ such as “Cantaloupe Island” by Herbie Hancock or “Donna Lee” by Charlie Parker. Also‚ there was one band that performed pieces written by its members‚ which really impressed me. For example‚ “Preparation” was composed by Alex Reiff‚ who plays bass in the band

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    Big Band Jazz

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    Big Band Jazz Across the world there are thousands of languages that we as people use to communicate with one another. Many of these languages have been developed out of others‚ therefore sharing similar dialects‚ accents‚ and in some cases even some words are very similar. Yet of all the languages that are spoken across the world‚ there is only one that is fluently spoken and understood on every continent‚ and that is the language of Music. Yet because this language is spoken in so many different

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    Jazz Age Research Paper

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                                            5/4/17                                                    English                                                                      The Jazz Age:                        What is the Jazz Age ?The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s ‚ ending with the Great Depression in which jazz music and dance styles became popular in the United States. Despite of social and economic upheaval ‚ the 1900s prospered as a whole. Society was experiencing a total new way of life

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    first jazz quiz

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    Completed Attempt Score 4 out of 13 points Time Elapsed 7 minutes. Instructions Question 1 0 out of 1 points A very common style of playing the bass in jazz from the 1930s through the 1960s is called: Selected Answer: Incorrect running bass. Correct Answer: Correct walking bass. Question 2 0 out of 1 points “Laying out”‚ in jazz music‚ is: Selected Answer: Incorrect when the musicians decide how they are going to play the song. Correct Answer: Correct When a musician doesn’t play

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    scale with twelve pitches. On a piano all the semitones have the same size‚ meaning equally spaced. In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin‚ is about two brothers that have a conflictive relationship because or music and drug problems. The main theme is brotherhood and how music help people express their feelings and to solve their problems. Music plays a central role in defining the characters and culture of Harlem in “Sonny’s Blues.” In Baldwin’s story‚ there a several hidden messages‚ but there are two

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