...sown and community identity is established. The neighborhoods are where cultural traditions have been invented and preserved: cuisine, architecture, second-line parades, and jazz funerals. The cultural constituency of New Orleans’ neighborhoods have been instrumental in shaping the city’s old and new histories, social interactions, and the international affair the world has with the “Big Easy”. No stranger to death, destruction, and tragedy, New Orleans mixes it all up in a funky stew that makes magic out of everyday life, where every day there is a jazz funeral somewhere, every day is a second-line, and skeletons don’t hang out in...
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...Jazz This was a very interesting piece of work by Toni Morrison. I have read other works of Morrison’s and she has a way of writing that can’t be only captured in one point of view or perspective in my opinion. There is always this underlying metaphor or meaning that isn’t recognizable from first glance. In Jazz I feel that there are two things that are the major overtones of the novel. The first is the different affects and types of desires and the other would be the comparisons that can be made back to jazz music. First I want to touch on her concepts of desire. Morrison is theorizing the nature of desire; particularly African American females desire (Cannon, 235). The desires of the two main characters in the novel are what give the story its flare and captivity of the reader. The first example would be the husband Joe. He gets caught up in a love triangle with his wife Violet and mistress eighteen year old Dorcas. First was his going and seeking out Dorcas and having found that sexual desire he yearned for he then kills her to “keep the feeling going” (Cannon, 235). This is what brings Violet’s emotions to light. With her finding out about her husband’s disloyalty drives her into an instant state of anger and depression. Initially Violet only understands sexual desire and that becomes confusing upon the finding of her husband’s doings. Now that everything is in the open her sexual desires then start to manifest into jealous rage. Her first outburst of this jealous rage...
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...Known for iconic Golden Gate Bridge , nature's vistas, Victorian architectures, San Francisco is also famous for its vibrant musical events and concerts where you can watch a legendary artist performing live or you can discover a great local band. From intimate jazz joints to massive amphitheaters to famous historic concert halls, there are numerous places to enjoy live concerts in San Francisco. Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall the 2739-seat auditorium is one of the most famous place to watch live concerts in San Francisco. Owned and operated by the City and County of San Francisco, the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall is home to many of the Bay Area’s most dynamic musical performances. Name: Louise M. Davies...
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...beginning. The mood was super intense for Little Red in the Hood. The dynamics really set the mood and the build-up really set the story. I knew when the wolf appeared. There was also a really strong ending for this song. The Jazz Ensemble was amazing. I think I enjoyed this performance the most. I never thought that I would like Jazz becomes it doesn’t seem like something fun to listen. After their performance, my opinion changed. There were around 10 people in this group. Even though there were 4 trumpets, they did not overtake the sounds of the other instruments. Also, the solos really stood out. When some instruments were not playing, they did not just stand there and had a dead face. Instead, they grooved to the beats and looked like they were enjoying the performance and having fun. I didn’t take notes for the remaining two because I wanted to sit back and enjoy the performance. The remaining two parts were also good. They had good dynamics and rhythm. None of the instruments stuck out in their group. This is the first band concert that I have ever been to since coming to Whitney. What I can take out from this is that in order to put on a truly satisfying performance for the audience and the performers, we have to enjoy it and not just have a dead face when it is not our...
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...Half Blood Blues, an award winning novel by Esi Eydugan, really surprised me with all it had to offer. Its not everyday you can find a book that gives you a deep insight into the jazz community of the 1930's. If you were to go through the music app on my phone you would find about 6 hours of swing, jazz, and blues. The style of music is appealing to me, and upon opening the book I found that the pages were filled with lingo and aspects of that community. A theme erupts involving how places change, and the language helps to enrich the experience. The first few pages of the book follow the young jazz musicians in the 1930's. Some topics such as racism, the 2nd world war, and poverty are introduced as well as the setting. Although the exposition of a novel tends to be boring, Edugyan integrated a massive plot point that is revisited later in the novel when the book flashes forward to the 1990's....
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...One of my favorite trumpet players is Miles Davis. Miles Davis, "American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s." Miles Davis was, and still is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time. His style and smoothness on the trumpet caught the ears of many people. Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois., on May 26, 1926. For most of Miles's life he was raised in East St. Louis in an upper middle class family. Before Davis got interested into music he liked sports a lot. He loved playing baseball, football, boxing, and basketball. The first trumpet he received was in his preteen years. He practically fell in love with it the first time he played it. Davis liked to play in his high school band and in R&B bands. In 1942 Miles married his wonderful wife, Irene. In July of 1944 he sat in with Billy Eckstine and his band, where he met his life long idols, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the fall, Miles goes to New York to attend Juilliard School of Music. "I spent my first week in NY and my first month's allowance looking for Charlie "Bird" Parker. Later I roomed with Parker for a year and followed him around down to 52nd street. Every night I'd write down chords, on matchbook covers. Next day, I'd play these chords, all day in the practice rooms at Juilliard, instead of going to classes." "Instead of taking classes he hooked up with Bird, playing in his quintet...
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...The Axeman Who Loved Jazz Nighttime comforting them as they slumber, yet suppressing the very thing they fear most. The most paralyzing figure watching them as they sleep. A man looming over them and watching every move they make. A “real-life” boogeyman; the Axeman of New Orleans. While the residents were content in their homes, he would beat them insensible until their life slipped away from their own eyes. From May 1918 to October 1919, the Axeman of New Orleans tormented the residents that lived there. His weapon was no other than an axe, but never the same exact one. “Often, the Axeman of Orleans would use whatever was available,...
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...artist must experiment and try new things. Herbie Hancock's theories allow for the movement of jazz music from the traditional to a more progressive new form. He believes what makes history is what music reflects on. Music has made an impact on all levels in history. The early days of jazz provided many styles, which highlighted the talent and innovation of African American music including Ragtime and Dixieland. Ragtime also contributed to the movement of African Americans to march against racism. Dixieland was a form that made a mockery of how Caucasian people danced. Soul is the movement of power to African Americans, all of which reflected what was going on in history during that time. For traditional jazz to be played in the present time would have no meaning to the people playing it. For instance, a young jazz musician playing Charles Mingus' song "Fables of Faubus" (which was about the wrong doings of governor Faubus) would have no meaning to the musician because he/she never lived that era. As for new, recent music, the artist plays what he/she feels in respect to the present. For instance, Herbie Hancock's new album came out about a month ago called "Possibilities". This album was called his "all-star project" (Downbeat; Pg 38) because it featured new artists like John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, and Paul Simon. The album depicts a movement of music in how a new form of jazz, soul, and pop our recent era has developed. The decade of the 1960’s, also known as "The Sixties"...
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...Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. was an outstanding American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and a vocalist who gained fame during the early fifties. Though he was a talented performer, his talent and life was destroyed by the evil of drugs. Chet Baker was born on December 23, 1929 on a farm on the outskirts of Yale, Oklahoma. Later, shifted to Los Angeles with his parents at the age of 10. Baker, who was privileged with a musical family background enters the musical world when he was a kid. He marks his entrance to the world of music by joining the church choir team. He was introduced to playing trombone by his father who himself was a professional guitar player. Not to mention that his mother was also a very talented pianist. At the age of 13, Baker makes a significant mark in his musical career by replacing the trombone with a trumpet due to the fact that the trombone being huge. Even though Baker received musical education at Glendale Junior High School, he left school at the age of 16 to join the United States Army where and joined the army band. In his transition period, he left the army in 1948 and attended El Camino College in Los Angeles where he studied theory and harmony. But he was dropped out again and joined the army again in 1950. The he became a member of the sixth army band at the Presidio in San Francisco. At this point in his life Baker was into Jazz music. He became a huge fan of Miles Davis and soon he was into the popular jazz clubs in the city of San Francisco. Afterwards...
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...tender age of eighteen. Her father was, Clarence Holiday, also a jazz guitarist in Fletcher Henderson’s band. Both of her parents were young when they had her. It wasn’t long before Clarence left them to travel with his band rather than take care of Billie and her mom. In 1920 Billie’s mother, Sadie married Philip Gough, which allowed Billie to have a stable home awhile. A few years later the marriage ended, and Billie was sent to the House of Good Shepard’s, that was only for African American women. At the age of 11, Billie was raped by a neighbor. Although, the assaulter was only sent to 3 months in prison, Billie also was sent back to the facility. It is recorded that she once had to spend a night with a dead girl as a punishment. Meanwhile, her father still drifted in and out of her life....
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...Sonny’s older brother the narrator reading about reading about his heroin bust in the newspaper. Sonny was a jazz musician. He tried to go on with his day but he could not stop thinking about brother. Sonny had a trouble past, he goes in and out of jail and his relationship with his family is strain. Sonny’s father was a drunk and moody, Sonny and he did not get along. Sonny was quiet and withdrawn. Throughout the story the narrator would have flash backs about growing up with Sonny. One day Sonny went to jail and his brother never written him. It wasn’t until Grace has die that Sonny’s brother decides to write him. Sonny writes his brother a long letter trying to explains how he got in the predicament. The two brothers stay in constant communications .Sonny is released from jail and goes lives with his brother....
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...Assignment Brittany Lynch Keiser University WEEK 3 WRITING ASSIGNMENT PART 1 The Author I chose is Randall Jarrell. His passage is very interesting. The most significant thing about the protagonist is the fact that he's dead. He tells us the tale of his own death. It is also important to think about how he tells us the story. He doesn't seem too worked up about it—quite the opposite, really. He tells us part of the story in a fairly dry, matter-of-fact way, and he tells us other parts in a kind of mysterious, figurative way. So, what are the advantages of having a dead speaker? It gives the poem a very different tone than it might have if the speaker were recounting the death of a friend or fellow soldier. It is unusual for us to be able to discuss something as dramatic and emotional as a violent death in such a detached or metaphorical way as our speaker does. By writing this poem in the voice of a dead soldier, Jarrell is able to make every aspect of the poem contain the element of death, even the parts that are about living. The living are always going to have a very different perspective on death than the dead which makes this passage so interesting because it give the perspective on death from the actual dead, which is seldom because …well, they’re DEAD! WEEK 3 WRITING ASSIGNMENT PART 2 I chose F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Babylon Revisited" is the story of a Charlie Wales, a former drunken party-goer who returns to Paris, the site of his former 1920s debauchery, shortly...
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...states that he wishes he was dead. Hughes writes: “Got de Weary Blues / I ain’t happy no mo’ / And I wish that I had died” (28-30). This form of poetry played a huge role in the issue of writing and performing for a white audience. Along with this is the insecurity of black poets opening up to be themselves and feeling intimidated by white poets. One of the main issues that Hughes discussed in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” that is reflected in the poem is being ashamed of being a person of color and worrying about the American standards and attempting to fit into those standards or values. In his essay, Hughes refuses to accept the idea that the American values were something that was supposed to be followed as a pattern. The man of color playing on Lenox Ave is melancholy mainly because he is lonely and also because he is unhappy and cannot be satisfied. If a person is unsatisfied wishing they were dead this means that they do not love themselves. I understood that he was not happy with himself because he is a black man who is seeking acceptance and recognition. Through the music, the black man is attempting to encourage himself to live without shame and embrace his beautiful dark skin. In the poem, the man is expressing his identity and his cultural traditions through the drowsy tune he is performing. In his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Hughes is doing the same thing but he speaks of the jazz bands. “But jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions...
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...History of Rock and Roll Who invented rock and roll? Well, the answer is nobody. Rock music is the innovation and evolution of many different types of music from a wide variety of groups of people. No one planned rock and roll, and it took over a great deal of American culture and revolutionized popular music. Rock and roll was influenced by African American music as well as white American styles. Since the introduction of minstrel shows in America in 1840, people have created and developed many other kinds of music. Mostly originated from African Americans, swing, blues, and jazz music was an early beginning to rock music. Many musical qualities were brought with African slaves into America. Some of the qualities include improvisation, “call and response” singing, and a dynamic rhythm. They created spiritual music and blues, which later evolved into what we know today as gospel music and “rhythm and blues.” White American music is based on of folk-style songs, mostly ballads in small bands of musical instruments. At the start of the 20th century, these folk style songs became referred to as hillbilly music. The transition to country-western music began with singers like Jimmie Rodgers and Gene Autry. After World War II, soldiers returning home wanted to feel at home again. This started the era of playing music on the radio, with programs such as Grand Ole Opry, which still runs today. This genre of music used guitars, Hawaiian guitar and drums on occasion to create a new...
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