In the course of recent years, Gordon has delivered a strikingly differing group of work, going from vast scale pieces for high-vitality gatherings to major instrumental commissions to works imagined particularly for the account studio. His enthusiasm for investigating different sound surfaces has driven him to make bore works that contort customary established instruments with electronic impacts furthermore. Gordon holds a B.A. from New York University. He is fellow benefactor and co-imaginative
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Jamal Cyrus, Texas Fried Tenor, 2012, Brass Saxophone, Fry batter, And Deep Fryer. Born and raised in Houston Texas, Jamal began his artist career in the mid 2000s creating long play records. What he wanted out of his music was to make present what he felt wasn't represented enough, the expression of black militancy. After the Detroit rebellion of 1967, a once popular urban label that expressed black pride was investigated by the FBI only to later be bought out and turned into disco
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The iconic jazz artist Charlie Parker was born on August 29, 1920, in Kansas City, Kansas. His dad, Charles Parker Sr., was an African-American stage performer, and his mom, Addie Parker, was a housekeeper of Native-American descent. In 1927, Charlie moved with his parents to Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 7. It was here where Charlie was introduced to various genres of music. At the time, the most popular of the genres included jazz, blues, and gospel. Charlie found interest in playing an instrument
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The Potter’s House Jazz Series captures the hearts of DC residents from all over the world. On February 25th, the synthesizing sound of the keyboard along with the mellow sound of the cello and the vibrant sound of the drums had filled the Potter’s House café and bookstore with ambiance. The café had just enough seats so that no one would have to involuntarily stand. People kept coming and going, but the sensation did not change and the music stayed the same. The diversity of the audience was what
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Music is displayed as an essential aspect of life throughout Sonny’s Blue’s.When Sonny and the narrator are at the nightclub, Sonny begins to play the piano. The narrator describes Sonny’s playing, “ Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listened, that he would never be free until we did”(47). The narrator uses this to explain that music is the only way to reach freedom. He also uses this to show that artists are creative, and can think of new
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links between a classical solo concerto and a mid 20th century jazz piece with improvisation, right off the bat, you may not think there are any, however, there are multiple unique links that the two have in common. One may think that there are no links within these
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1. Introduction: We often use the word “Jazz” to describe an era, not just in music, but in culture itself, which began in the late 1910s and lasted for the whole of the ‘20s. This era wasn’t yet a modern one, but it was beyond old-times and carried itself as its own entity. The music that came from it was its own as well; the world had left behind typical baroque, romantic, and classical styles, but this was completely singular to any of those. It was a unique, clunky sound both classic and revolutionary
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Throughout the 1920’s jazz music was a defining aspect of American culture; it also had a huge effect on society.. People of the time saw either playing or listening to jazz as a way to feel free or even escape from their daily lives. With the social changes going on in the 20’s, like the parties and the way people behaved, jazz fit right in with the changing times. Many jazz enthusiasts will argue that you are born with a love of jazz (Jazz History: The Standards). Like Louis Armstrong once said
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Copland's nationalism, especially his discovery of jazz as an “American” sounding musical vernacular in the defamiliarized surroundings of 1920s France.”3 Here we see that Copland discovery of jazz (an American art form) was found in Paris and not the United States. This will provide this paper with an excellent sources to make the claim that Copeland interpretation of jazz music is not truly authentic to American jazz which makes his attempt to use jazz music as essential element in his American music
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is the first broadway play written by a black woman. The play is about the dreams of Younger family, a black family who lives in south side of Chicago and the obstacles of making their dreams come true during the Segregation era. The title of Hansberry's play comes from a line of a Langston Hughes poem "Harlem". In his poem, Hughes asks the audience what will happen if we defer or lost our dream. “ Will it dry? Will it rot? Will it fester? Will it sag? Or
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