3 July 2013 A New Jazz “Post-war America‚ Jazz and Heroin” by Zenga Longmore and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” Life after the Second World War changed for many‚ including the previously jolly jazzmen in Harlem. Whether through conspiracy‚ a search to remedy the anxieties of a ‘struggling for image’ musician‚ or just something that was pressed as a requirement to belong‚ heroin certainly made its bleak presence known. Trumpeter Red Rodney once said‚ “Heroin became the thing that made
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The folder was empty except for a small excerpt of sheet music from Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4”. The piece that determined which instrumentalists made it into the top jazz band and who got put into the ‘you tried’ jazz band. After today‚ I wanted to fill this folder with the Jazz One selections that Mr.Brown specifically picked out for his most talented musicians. Not that his ‘talented musicians’ are any good outside the band room considering the overall quality of the
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disadvantages of year-round schooling and one problem to it is that will students actually learn if it’s boiling in a classroom along with temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees? This is nothing to laugh about. A couple of schools in Australia gave year-round schooling a shot‚ but it turned out to be a disaster. The school’s who tried year-round schooling averages went down from 86% to 72%. This had made a big effect on the students because they can’t learn in such hot environments. Year-round schooling
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Walsh‚ John Evangelist‚ Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe‚ New Brunswick‚ NJ: Rutgers University Press‚ 1998. (Although it claims to “definitively untangle more than a century of speculation” about Poe’s death‚ this book is little more than a rehashing of
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Thirteen Days to Midnight Patrick Carman Carman‚ Patrick. Thirteen Days to Midnight. New York: Little‚ Brown and Company‚ 2010. Ha Chette Book Group Patrick Carman is a well known author in the mystery genre. He also has spearheaded many author outreach programs. My book is about this 16 year old boy’s life. His name is Jacob Feilding. He goes to Holy Cross High School. He was adopted around his 14th birthday by Mr. Feilding. One day while he and his adopted dad are driving to the coast they
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Bebop: A Controversial Transition to Modern Jazz Nathan Marketich Music 0711 Professor Leon Dorsey Recitation TA: Alton Merrell 1:00 December 10‚ 2010 The decade of the 1940’s was an important era in the history of jazz. The 1940’s was a transition from traditional jazz into modern jazz. Leading this transition was the introduction of the Bebop period in Jazz. Bebop created controversy in the jazz world for being a contradiction to traditional jazz and was widely disliked by many audiences
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Anne Mette Iversen‚ a modern bassist‚ composer‚ and bandleader based in Berlin‚ releases her seventh album on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label with the suggestive title Round Trip. This idea of leaving and return to the same point is scattered throughout the eight original compositions whose exciting arrangements and interplay won me over. Most of the tunes on the recording thrive with a groovy‚ pulsing rhythm that feels contemporarily urban and provocative to the ear‚ gaining even more emphasis
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Year-Round Schooling Why were schools traditionally set up to give students the summer off? When schools started mostly all of students came from a farming family‚ and they needed to be out of school to help on the farm. Many people know that there are not as many students coming from farming families today‚ so why do most schools still operate on this schedule? While some parents believe that year-round schooling decreases family time and causes student burn out‚ in reality frequent breaks provided
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From Jazz to Hip Hop New genres of music often start off with an underground following. As the music evolves it eventually loses its subversive feel. It is no longer revolutionary nor a creative art form‚ thus it becomes a product of popular culture found amongst the demographics of MTV. One popular style of music that grew by countering American culture is jazz. Today jazz is often compared to hip-hop; both art forms have grown from an underground following to counter American culture. Furthermore
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Sanderson 2calendar are the 60-20 and the 90-30 plans. Perhaps‚ the most important facet of year-round education is how it is implemented. Schools may operate on a single-trackschedule where all students are on the same calendar and get the same holidays off‚ ora multi-rack schedule‚ which has groups of students attending school at different timeswith different vacations. Multi-tracking is popular because it allows schools to enrollmore students than buildings would normally hold.”Also all schools
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