Listening Activity 2- Jazz Composition Part I The genre was New Orleans hot jazz, which was why his early bands were named Louis Armstrong Hot Fives and Hot Sevens. A brief instrumental introduction by the ensemble gives way to a wonderfully swinging chorus by Armstrong on cornet; he dances playfully around the melody, keeping his audience guessing where he might be leading them. At the break, clarinetist Johnny Dodds, a talented musician in his own right, takes up the challenge, doing what
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How Jazz Music Lead to a Victory in World War II Music is a very powerful tool, it can bring people together, it can make two people hate each other and in some instances it can put words into your head without you even knowing (ie. Hotel California- The Eagles). Music is something that nearly everybody listens to anywhere from church hymns to the ear splitting dubstep music that sounds like Autobots and Decepticons fighting. Since it is so universal that means that it could have a large impact
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Roderick M. Thomas Jr. American Popular Music October 25, 2013 Personal Selection Paper I decided to do my paper on Ray Charles because he is a staple in music history. He was always a very influential person in music and revolutionized music by mixing the sound of gospel with blues. Personally, my favorite song to listen to preformed by Ray Charles is “Hit the Road Jack”, which is a part of the blues genre written by Percy Mayfield. The reason I enjoy this song is because it explains a story
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The interaction between Blues and Jazz can be discerned when the origins of both music are scrutinized. The development of one is hidden in the roots of one another and both use similar sound patterns for instance. In this paper the readers will be presented a brief history of Blues & Jazz within the similarities of the two. If we trace back to the history of Blues music, the impact of African-American tradition is seen quite apparently. Blues music evolved from the songs sung by West African
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puts out explanations of African-Americans, jazz music, and many more subjects that have been a portion of his life. These foundations are what inclined him, and shows it in everything that he has inscribed. He uses blues and jazz styles for themes and for construction in his pieces of literature. In Hughes' poetry, he would try to bring out the rhythms from blues and jazz music. He would also use comedy, aloneness, and misery, to copy the sound of jazz and blues music with verses. I agree with Hughes’
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COUNT BASIE / ONE O’CLOCK JUMP Count Basie wrote One o’clock jump in 1937, with arrangements Eddie Durham and Buster Smith. At the same time, the song became the theme song of the Count Basie Orchestra. Eight instruments are used in this song; these are piano (C. Basie), trumpet (E. Lewis), trombone (B. Scott), saxophone (J. Washington), guitar (F. Green), Drums (J. Jones) and bass (W. Page), which brings in the whole reed section backed by the trombones and their loping punctuation, to a finish
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(R&B). The musical layout of Hip-Hop and R&B has come a long way. People that do not listen to these genres regularly, may wave them off as having the same sound, and just think that of it as the same type of music. If you are familiar with Jazz and Blues, you can notice that the structure of Hip-Hop and R&B is based off of them. If you were to let someone who is familiar hear an example or a small “cut” of these types of music, they would immediately be able to tell apart which is which
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Gospel music has been described as spiritual music to help uplift you and overcoming pain and struggles. At the same time, rhythm and blues tells a story of heart ache, finding love and being very emotional. However, both are emotional nonetheless. Despite some differences on the surface, gospel music and R&B are actually lot alike in the sense they constantly reinvent themselves and continue to grow worldwide. Gospel music is very soulful just like R&B and can make you feel good and take you to
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Music in western civilization in 20th century Music is defined as sounds that are arranged in a particular pattern in which when played are exciting to hear or listen to. Music is commonly used as a form or relaxation and entertainment. The chronology of music started way back in the period of the medieval times when the chanting was introduced into most of the catholic churches. Music then had moved through the following stages up to until the modern day music (Burkholder, Grout & Palisca 2010
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the word leader, during the Civil Rights Movement, we think of great men like, Martin Luther King or A. Philip Randolph. However, Louis Armstrong must be considered as one of our countries leaders. Being an innovative musician he not only pioneered jazz but overcame barriers set by racism. He saw the musician, not the color of the musician. Louis patented his own style of music which became known and loved the world over. David Stricklin’s book Louis Armstrong gave us a detailed description of Armstrong’s
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