... began shifting from Chicago to New York. During the 1920s, New York boasted numerous schools of jazz such as the Harlem big bands, the Harlem Piano School, urban blues, and society dance bands. It was also in New York that "spasm" bands began to catch on (Charters). The most creative period ... as the Harlem Renaissance. It was during this time that many successful pianist of the Harlem piano school like Luckey Roberts, Fats Waller, Joe Turner, and Art Tatum, became famous (Charters). The Harlem piano school was built mainly around small intimate clubs, or piano bars, featuring solo pian...

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... and teach him so of the tricks of playing excellent piano. Another influential pianist in Dukes learning experience was the music teacher at his high school Harry Grant. Duke's first success as a musician came at a high school dance where he took the piano from out of the crowd. Here he played his first composition " What you gonna do when the bed brakes ... with the band he had started the Duke's Serenaders. It was when Duke was just months short of his high school graduation that he married Edna Tompson, moved into a house with her that he had bought, and dropped out of high school. I...

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... be the best thing that ever happened to him. He was sent to the Coloreds Waif House a reform school on the out skirts of New Orleans. Here Louis was introduced to organized music in the form of the school band. Captain Joseph Jones ran the school band in a military fashion that was extremely strict. It was there that he was introduced to Peter ... ...

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... for Colored Girls". But her street smart ways as well as her fiery no nonsense attitude was viewed negatively by the nuns . She even claimed that the nuns at the school forced her to sleep next to the body of young girl who had died in order to teach her lesson. In 1928, Billie and her mother Sadie moved from Baltimore ... ...

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... Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia in 1917. Both her parents died by the time she was 15. Ella was forced to live at the New York State Training School for girls, where she was abused by the caretakers. Striving to become a dancer, Ella took the stage of the Harlem Apollo Theatre in 1934. However, she was too nervous to ... ...

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... early on (geocites). At some point in her childhood, her mother moved to New York, leaving her to care for her relatives who, according to Holiday, mistreated her. She quit school after the fifth grade, was sexually assaulted at the age of ten and was jailed for prostitution in her early teens (artandculture). One would think Billie's tragic childhood would leave ... ...

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... Armstrong. He was born August 4th, 19o1, and was raised by a poor New Orleans family. Louis was a poor orphan, and at the age of 12, he was sent to a reform school for firing a gun into the air on New Years Eve. There, he learned to play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument ... ...

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... Armstrong. He was born August 4th, 19o1, and was raised by a poor New Orleans family. Louis was a poor orphan, and at the age of 12, he was sent to a reform school for firing a gun into the air on New Years Eve. There, he learned to play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument ... ...

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... Baldwin presents is from a time that a lot of people lived through, and those who didn't know a lot about it, it is easier to understand. Baldwin's evidence is learned in high school history classes and therefore is known by more people. The more knowledge you have on a subject the more easily your brain absorbs and understands perhaps another person's view on such ... ...

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... bought his first coronet. When he was eleven, juvenile court sent him to Jones Home for Colored Waifs for firing a pistol on New Year's Eve. While Louis was at the school he had his first formal musical lessons and played in the home's brass band. After he was released, he began playing with pick up bands and in small clubs with ... ...

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... a few friends sang on the streets and made a little money. When Armstrong was in his teens he got into trouble and had to go to the Waif's home, which was a school for boys. He joined the band here and learned to play the cornet, although he was taught incorrectly and ruined his lips. He never learned to read music either. When ... ...

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