Charles Mingus was one of the most influential and groundbreaking jazz musicians and composers of the 1950s and 1960s. The virtuoso bassist gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s working with such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong‚ Duke Ellington‚ Charlie Parker‚ Art Tatum‚ and many others. His compositions pushed harmonic barriers‚ combining Western-European classical styles with African-American roots music. While examining his career is valuable from musical standpoint‚ his career also provides a powerful
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Nectar: Making Loyalty Pay Case Study Background and Problem Definition Sainsbury’s is a medium-sized UK supermarket and gas station chain. It is also the largest participant of Nectar‚ UK’s most extensive rewards program. When Justin King took over as Sainsbury’s CEO in 2004‚ he was faced with the decision of whether Sainsbury’s participation in the Nectar loyalty program was worth its annual $120‚000‚000+ budget. King came over from ASDA‚ Sainsbury’s lower-cost competitor‚ where there was
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On the side of his house‚ a man is going to build two enclosures. One enclosure for a garden and another enclosure to keep his dogs in so the dogs aren’t roaming around. It is illegal to have any dogs roaming around. He bought 180ft of fence to use and one side is already existing. Refer to the picture on the next page. Since there are three short sides and one long side‚ to set up the perimeter‚ the short sides will be x and the long side will be y. So the equation is 3x + y = 180. The 180 comes
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Duke Ellington Duke Ellington was one of America’s most prolific composers. He led and played piano for one of the century’s most successful jazz orchestra. Although he excelled in big band jazz arrangements‚ He composed in a variety of forms including large scale abstract instrumental works as well as songs‚ night production numbers‚ and dance tunes. Duke Ellington’s music is known for linking images and sound. He often referred to many of his compositions as “portraits or tone parallels”. Duke
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Jazz is one of the most dynamic forms of music‚ having started in New Orleans with blues and ragtime around the 1900. Jazz was not heard at concerts around the nation. Jazz was heard in the small bars and “honky tonks” of the poor New Orleans neighborhoods. Now the idea of jazz being a secluded and limited from the rest of the nation and world is preposterous to musicians today because of the way Jazz has permeated our entire society. Jazz has changed so much since its inception and that is evident
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After listening to all sixteen musical pieces‚ and from the three big band selections we have to choose from‚ I want to say that my favorite one is “Sing‚ Sing‚ Sing” by Benny Goodman. One of the reasons could be because I had hear this musical piece before‚ maybe in movies‚ commercial‚ or cartoons‚ but also for its rhythm‚ fast tempo and fast beat. This type of music was famous during the swing music area‚ not that I remember it‚ but it is depicted on almost all movie scenes of that era. Some
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Smooth Jazz is a genre of music. As you can tell by its name‚ the music is quite smooth‚ cool. You can also tell that it doesn’t really use swingy rhythms. Some people call it Cool Jazz and it can also be called Contemporary Jazz‚ they’re all the same thing. Smooth Jazz started in 1985. It lost its popularity in 2008. People changed their tastes in music. They got more interested into more new and modern music. Smooth Jazz is like a combination of jazz and smooth R&B. In Smooth Jazz‚ the piano
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Upon first glance at the Guzman hall I was filled with anxiety as well as excitement as to what was to come. Prior to this semester I had not listened to any jazz music and I was unaware of any artists or songs. Therefore going to a jazz concert was a rare experience that I now cherish. When I first entered the hall I was greeted by a group of musicians called ‘The Stamps Jazz Quintet’‚ there were 4 musicians at the front of the hall and they were taking place. The musicians included Sam Hart who
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Gregory Oliver Hines was a great tap dancer and started to tap dance when he was young. he was one of the first famous African American tap dancers in the U.S. and was also a jazz tap dancer‚ singer‚ actor‚ musicians‚ and creator of improvised tap choreography. He was born in New York City‚ the son of Maurice Hines Sr. and Alma Hines. He began dancing at the age of not-quite-three‚ turned professional at age five‚ and for fifteen years performed with his older brother Maurice
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John Lee Hooker born on August 22‚ 1917‚ in Clarksdale‚ Mississippi. He was the fourth out of eleven children in his family of William and Minnie Hooker. His father was a sharecropper and Baptist minister who was not fond of the blues because his father refers blues music as the “devil’s music”. When he was five years old‚ his parents separated from each other and they divorced when he was eleven. In his younger years‚ Hooker received a limited amount of formal education. However‚ music was an important
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