Ryan Au Duong Angulo ELA Honors 24‚ April 2012 Life of the King of Jazz “My whole musical success goes back to the time I was arrested…”(Old 28). Louis Armstrong started off as a normal kid who lived in a poor family and environment‚ but ended up as one of the most influential entertainers in history all because of one mistake he made as a child‚ which changed his life. Louis Armstrong’s life was filled with events that built his musical skills‚ fame‚ and his well-being even though he did
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emphasis on solos. As soon as the song‚ “Cold Breeze” starts the fast tempo is evident right from the start. The tempo is so fast that it was hard for the singer to sing words‚ and in this case the singer Ella Fitzgerald had to use the technique of scat singing to follow along with the song and its tempo. Another characteristic of bebop was the virtuosity of the music and the emphasis on long and complex instrumental solos. In the song‚ “A Night in Tunisia” featuring saxophonists Dexter Gordon along with
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The family also encouraged young Armstrong to begin singing. Soon Armstrong began to find himself in a whirl wind of trouble. On New Year’s Eve in 1912‚ Armstrong fired a gun into the air at a celebration and was arrested immediately. He was sent to a home for boys named‚ Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. There
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The CSUN Jazz A Band performed at the Valley Performing Arts Center on February 28‚ 2013 at 7:30 PM. The director‚ John Daversa‚ put together two sections of the show; the first section exhibited the works of Dee Barton‚ a local jazz musician that recently passed away and the second half introduced two renowned vocalists that accompanied the jazz band. The first vocalist was Renee Olstead‚ an entertaining vocalist with a strong and soulful voice. The second vocalist was Tierney Sutton who has an
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your dog or cat has tapeworms is that they are walking around and dragging their rear on the ground in order to cease the discomfort in their abdomen. Also dogs and cats who are infected by tapeworms are going to have white seed like spots in their scat which in fact are tapeworms that were just drug out of the intestines when digesting food. Other organisms that can be effects by tapeworms are cattle‚ sheep‚ goats‚ pigs‚ horses‚ poultry‚ and if the meat from an organism that was infected is ingested
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religious songs since the beginning of slavery. Slaves sang these tunes all throughout the day to provide a mental escape from their current state and to explain their sorrows and hardships (Gates‚ McKay‚ 8). The slave masters thought the slaves were singing these songs through their forced belief in the Christian religion‚ but they actually contained codes that referred to the slaves obtaining freedom. “I’m tryin’ to make heaven my home” is a common phrase in spirituals‚ as in City Called Heaven (Gates
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Reinaldo Hernandez MUL 2380 Notes Chapter 1 It is very difficult to define jazz because it has so many varieties. Almost all jazz styles have improvisations and swing feeling. Improvisation means compose and perform at the same time. Four ingredients that help music swing are steady beat‚ syncopation‚ lilting quality‚ and rising and falling of the melodic line. Charles Mingus was a jazz bassist known for his composing and improvising. Dizzy Gillespie was a modern jazz trumpeter who devised a highly
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Karli Stroman Dr. Carson Abnormal Psych. 20‚ November 2009 Seung-Hui Cho When trying to determine the mind state of a person involved in a catastrophic event such as the Virginia Tech shooting it is difficult. Adding onto that difficulty is that the person that we are interested in‚ Seung-Hui Cho‚ committed suicide. Therefore we have to look at everything from that date backwards. We must dig deep into his family past to see if there is any history of depression‚ anxiety‚ or any other mental
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recognized and was familiar with‚ such as the saxophone‚ clarinet‚ bass‚ and drums. They introduced a variety of instruments that looked either homemade or sounded strange to me‚ like the electric banjo‚ drumitar‚ and synthesizers. There was a bit of scat vocals done by Victor Wooten as well. One thing I noticed in this song was the repetition. I think the bass line was constant throughout the entire four minute long song. The set looked very non-Western to me‚ especially the rugs that were laid
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January 9‚ 13- Lecture 2 • Blackface Minstrelsy • Betrays simultaneous fascinations and repulsion for African American culture (don’t imitate unless admire) • Appeared in the 1830’s and onward • As much a matter of class as a matter of race • Live entertainment in which white performers darkened their skin to imitate what they thought African American music sounded like (didn’t know much about African American culture or the south in general) • Ridiculed blacks and made profit • Northern
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