... Memphis, St. Louis and finally Chicago. Of course that seems to be the history of what we now refer to as jazz, however, the influences of what led to those early New Orleans sounds goes way back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. The ... , the musician shifts the accent to a normally unaccented beat (World Book 1986). The cornet player, Buddy Bolden is generally considered to be the first real Jazz musician. Other early players included Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, and Clarence Williams. Although these musicians" names are unknown to most people, then and now...

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... swing era and big-band era. Two of the more famous Swing Band leaders were Tommy Dorsey and Harry James. Journalists and jazz fans drew distinctions between bands that conveyed the hardest driving rhythmic qualities and extensive solo improvisations and those that conveyed less swing feeling ... music was generally fast. Demanding execution on individual instruments was seldom required by previous styles. Today Bop is considered the mainstream of jazz style, yet the jazz community did not enthusiastically accept it at the time of its coming out. "Anyone who attempts to sing extemporaneou...

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... and singing styles. These four characteristics bled into the Americas, and in the U.S, resulted in a chain of unique music genres including blues, jazz, ragtime, bebop, and rock. This evolution of American music is rooted in the application of African esthetic, notably the use of polyrhythms, an ... Handy was responsible for bringing blues into the mainstream, blues was also being combined with another African influenced genre, ragtime, to create early jazz style in New Orleans. Primarily instrumental, ragtime was commonly performed on piano or arranged for brass bands. Making use of th...

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... defined as, "A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19th century". But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating in the United States. America was home to immigrants from all over Europe and ... . These people, often thought of as second-class, brought their culture with them to America, expressed it musically, and changed the music world as we know it today. Most early jazz was played in small marching bands or by solo pianists. Besides ragtime and marches, the...

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... rebellion, resistance and freedom, producers compose songs that correspond to these expectations and which appeal broad masses. In my opinion, today's music, no matter if jazz, rock, pop or anything else are all merchandised. It is only important whether the song, or the music style would sell and how much profit the ... passion musicians had put into their music in former times has gone. I do not believe that black musicians of the beginnings of the New-Orleans-Jazz did not care whether they would starve because of not being able to sell any of their records. But most of them really wan...

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... 's Music." People call it this because of the way it was developed. In the mid 1800's, during the times of slavery and segregation, the art of jazz music swept over the south. Particularly Louisiana. Blacks, whites, men and women of all ages and backgrounds came together and created a new, more artsy form of ... music that is known as jazz. What makes jazz music so special is that it is one of a kind and that it is unpredictable. People would just get together and play their instruments, usually the ... there would be a slow beat and a rhythmic story being told in sync with the beat. The...

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... on piano, and Tony Spargo on drums. The band members were all anglo-saxon men who were from New Orleans but met in Chicago. The "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" is a very fast and almost frantic song performed in a rag style. The drummer plays a boom-chick feel in many parts of ... actual melody. The song's form is very repetitive and there is little difference between the repeats of sections. "Dippermouth Blues" is very different from "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step". The instrument featured are the piano, trombone, trumpet, two cornets, bass, and drums. Two of the more obvious differences in the ...

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... on piano, and Tony Spargo on drums. The band members were all anglo-saxon men who were from New Orleans but met in Chicago. The "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" is a very fast and almost frantic song performed in a rag style. The drummer plays a boom-chick feel in many parts of ... actual melody. The song's form is very repetitive and there is little difference between the repeats of sections. "Dippermouth Blues" is very different from "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step". The instrument featured are the piano, trombone, trumpet, two cornets, bass, and drums. Two of the more obvious differences in the ...

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... times. On New Year's in 1913, Louis shot off a pistol into the air and was arrested. This turned out to be a very fortunate occurrence for Jazz and probably for him; he was admitted to the city's Colored Waif's Home for Boys. In this home he began his tutorship of Peter Davis who ... and Louis took his place in Kid Ory's band, at the suggestion of Oliver. One year later Joe Oliver asked Armstrong to play in his Creole Jazz Band at Lincoln Gardens in Chicago. Playing second cornet to Oliver helped Louis develop his ear and harmonies. While playing in this band Armstrong met Lillian ... a...

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... a show put on by the Savannah Symphony on November 9, 2002. Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz performed. This was a live performance of Jazz. Banu Gibson and her band performed with an orchestra from the Savannah Symphony. Her band consisted of six people. The music they played was very good. Banu Gibson also has a ... also did a little tap dancing while her band played. Overall, I thought that Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz were very good. They were very entertaining and kept my attention. I do not listen to jazz very much, but this made me appreciate jazz a lot more....

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... to a show put on by the Savannah Symphony on November 9, 2002. Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz performed. This was a live performance of Jazz. Banu Gibson and her band performed with an orchestra from the Savannah Symphony. Her band consisted of six people. The music they played was very good. Banu Gibson also has a ... also did a little tap dancing while her band played. Overall, I thought that Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz were very good. They were very entertaining and kept my attention. I do not listen to jazz very much, but this made me appreciate jazz a lot mo...

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Presidential Timeline Thomas Jefferson 1800- The election between Jefferson and Aaron Burr takes place. They tie, and Hamilton and Adams campaign for Jefferson, and he wins over Burr. Napoleon makes a deal with ... ...

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... explode? While Langhston Hughes authors this poem, A Dream Deferred, it can easily be interpreted as Toni Morrison's description of Nel and her life of sorrow and dissatisfaction. Sula and Nel, the protagonists in Toni Morrison's Sula, are each the only daughters of mothers whose distance leaves the young girls with dreams to ... even know she had a neck until Jude remarked on it, or that her smile was anything but the spreading of her lips"(84). Even Toni Morrison admits that Nel has lost her "me-ness", "The two of them together would make one Jude"(83). When Jude leaves, after his betr...

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... cover three different types of secular music that emerged during the slave days, through the civil war, reconstruction, and depression periods. They are blues, jazz, and gospel music. Each of these forms of music are still in existence today. In addition to exploring the history of each of these genres ... when her car struck a parked van. Bessie died the following morning at a black hospital. She was buried in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Like blues, jazz began to shape during slavery, and in the years after the civil war. The end of slavery meant the end of an isolation period that preven...

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... cover three different types of secular music that emerged during the slave days, through the civil war, reconstruction, and depression periods. They are blues, jazz, and gospel music. Each of these forms of music are still in existence today. In addition to exploring the history of each of these genres ... when her car struck a parked van. Bessie died the following morning at a black hospital. She was buried in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania. Like blues, jazz began to shape during slavery, and in the years after the civil war. The end of slavery meant the end of an isolation period that preven...

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... Collier's book Louis Armstrong an American Success Story, gave me an idea of Louis Armstrong's journey to becoming a great jazz musician. Louis Armstrong grew up listening to the blues, not jazz. When Armstrong began to play, he understood the music more than many other performers. Louis would change the melody a ... didn't play his notes evenly, but accented some and passed lightly over others, so that music seemed to be alive, to breathe" (Collier, p63). "Jazz was invented in New Orleans. It is hard to say why it happened there and not anywhere else" (Collier, p52). New Orleans was t...

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... musicians are doing that much more impactful, because one can truly see where all of this came from, where the inspiration for everything originated. Jazz music in particular started and spread, and was changed and transformed along the way to make it the powerful art form we now know ... aggressive one. Gospel stayed alive and thriving. Clearly it was very popular because of its relevance still today. This helped with the birth and growth of jazz. The two genres, while on surface level are very different, actually have quite a few, strong similarities. They are both branches off of tra...

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... spread throughout many countries. In late history, Opera was originally composed and performed for the upper-class society, whereas in today's society, it can be enjoyed by anybody. Jazz is the next category. Jazz is an American tradition. It's categorized by its strong but flexible rhythm with solo and group improvisations on basic tunes. To sum it all up, you can call ... it big band dance music. Jazz originated in New Orleans around the turn of the 20th century and since then has evolved into many different classifications. For example there is Acid Jazz, Big Band Jazz ... , Vocal Ja...

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... high notes. In 1925, they started using electric equipment to record music. In about 1900 - 1910, jazz started to flourish throughout America. There is not one way to give jazz a single definition. It represents a multitude of musical ideas and originating influences. It has been said that jazz is based on an African American rhythmic background entwined with European harmonic influences. However, it would ... to say that African American slaves used European rhythmic and harmonic forms to express their own musical traditions. New Orleans was the birthplace, therefore conceived to be th...

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... from his critics for mixing popular music with religious music. Mixing different styles of music can be heard in jazz. Jazz is a mixture of ragtime, blues, and gospel music. Jazz began in New Orleans around 1900. In jazz, the musicians improvise. This means that they take a melody and change it as they are playing or singing. ... They express what they feel, that moment the music is being performed. The father of jazz was Louis Armstrong; yet another black man But here's one style of music that all of us in this room can relate to personally. A form of ... so far. That style is Soul mu...

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Banu Gibson I went to a show put on by the Savannah Symphony on November 9, 2002. Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz performed. This was a live performance of Jazz. Banu Gibson and her band performed with an orchestra from the Savannah Symphony. Her band consisted of six people. The music they played was very good. Banu Gibson also has a ... also did a little tap dancing while her band played. Overall, I thought that Banu Gibson and Her New Orleans Hot Jazz were very good. They were very entertaining and kept my attention. I do not listen to jazz very much, but this made me appreciate ...

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... literature, different fashions, new heroes and heroines, and booming business that left everyone with a good feeling. The Roaring Twenties was also known as the Jazz Age and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense due to the many fads, or styles or activities that are popular for short amounts of time, that ran ... they set new trends for women's hairstyles, makeup, and clothes. The Roaring Twenties was a decade for music in the U.S. A new type of music, Jazz, was created by Black musicians in New Orleans from ragtime and blues. The new music was quick to spread through the United States, then th...

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... trumpet players ever known to man. Other than his trumpet, Louis had a great voice for the music he played which was called jazz music. Still today he is known for his music and being one of the pioneer's of jazz and big band. In The Beginning Louis was born in the Storyville District of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. He always ... to follow. To celebrate the New Year in 1913 Louis borrowed a pistol from a friend and shot it in the air and was arrested. This was most likely a good occurrence for Jazz music and a good thing for Louis too. He was admitted to the city's Colored...

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... a different type of music out of blues and ragtime. By the 1920's Louis Armstrong was recognized when he left New Orleans to go to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After his success with the band, he moved to New York where he had a great impact on the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra with new musical vocabulary and improvisation. From these ... facts along, one can see that Armstrong was very successful during his life time. In 1926 Louis Armstrong returned to Chicago. He was the head liner in jazz clubs, radio, and records. Audiences were very amazed by the way he played his ...

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... opportunities to moved up in the economy, this proved that they could overcome racism and oppression to do what they wanted to do which was to express themselves through music. Jazz was a big thing for them it was a way to forget all the hatred towards them by doing what they were best at was influencing music adding a new flavor to ... ...

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