... fail to notice the evaluation over the decades and the fact that jazz spanned many musical forms such as Ragtime, Swing, Scat and BeBop. A New Orleans barber by the name of Buddy Bolden picked up his cornet and blew the first stammering notes of jazz in the year of eighteen ninety-one. A half-century later, jazz, Americas great contribution to music crossed the threshold ... recordings, film, and television music. Most swing-style groups had at least 10 musicians and featured at least three or four saxophones, two or three trumpets, two or three trombones, piano, guitar, bass, violin, a...

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... to move to the northern states. As its popularity spread, the sound diversified, an what was once played with a single acoustic guitar or piano became electrified, played in groups. Once the blues made its way north, artists Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf dominated the Chicago blues scene ... recordings of his playing. W.C. Handy is considered the "Father of the Blues," he first heard the Blues being played by a lone Bluesman at the railroad depot in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1903. Handy is the first person to publish a composition with the term "Blues" in the title and utilizing "blue not...

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... and expressive, with a slide on almost every pitch. For example, the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues singer, Bessie Smith, is striking in its similarity. Also, the African scale, which contains notes flatted on the 3rd, 7th, and sometimes 5th degrees, is directly translated into blues music, which also incorporates slides into its instrumental form ... . The inception of this particular singing style and scale in blues became the catalyst for the genres that followed it. Developed in the rural ... mainstream, blues was also being combine...

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... violin and ukulele, and his mother Alice played piano and sang in the church choir. This was a great environment to foster his love of music. Coltrane soon moved with his family to the town of High Point, where his grandfather was the pastor of the A.M.E. Zion Church. His family was very religious ... in 1946 after being discharged. At this point in his life Coltrane was totally committed to becoming a professional musician. Coltrane worked a variety of jobs through the late forties until in 1947 he joined Eddie Vinson's jazz band, switching reluctantly to play the tenor sax to do so. ....

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... violin and ukulele, and his mother Alice played piano and sang in the church choir. This was a great environment to foster his love of music. Coltrane soon moved with his family to the town of High Point, where his grandfather was the pastor of the A.M.E. Zion Church. His family was very religious ... in 1946 after being discharged. At this point in his life Coltrane was totally committed to becoming a professional musician. Coltrane worked a variety of jobs through the late forties until in 1947 he joined Eddie Vinson's jazz band, switching reluctantly to play the tenor sax to do so. ....

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... expressive solo. -Inside playing: Jazz musicians are said to be playing inside when their melodic lines favor the principal notes of the harmonies. -Interval: the distance between any two notes. -Irregular meter: establish a regular metric pattern from an asymmetrical sequence of two more of two or more time signatures. The beat hierarchy in irregular meters can be simple (dividing in two parts) or ... its frequency. -Outside playing: The more players depart from the notes of the harmonies, the more they are said to be playing outside. -Phrase: notes grouped together as a logical unit or ...

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... new form, such as Charlie "Bird" Parker (alto sax), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Thelonious Monk (piano), Bud Powell (piano), Miles Davis (trumpet), and Charles Mingus (bass). The standard ensemble became a quintet, consisting of piano, bass, drums, reed instrument, and trumpet. (Erenberg). The distinguishing factors of the bop style were: notes that were more far-reaching, and which Garner 2contained a rhythm that was looser and more complex. Instead ... of the traditional stressing of the first and third beat of a measure, as in traditional Western music, bop music stresses the second ....

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... collided to produce jazz. These two genres not only influenced how jazz sounded, but also how jazz was played. Ragtime, a syncopated and cheerful form, invoked loose dancing styles from its piano centered music. In contrast, blues conjured emotions connected to the past and brought a more soulful sound to listeners. Despite the differences between ragtime and the blues in their origins, forms ... itself to create the defining characteristics. Ragtime was played in "ragged" time, otherwise known as syncopation. It was reminiscent of the clicking of the heels of black dancers who deviated...

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... someone attempted to "sing" these melodic leaps. Bebop, which was also called bop, was the fist kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940's. The most important musicians who gathered at Minton's where Thelonious Monk, piano, Kenny Clarke, drums, Charlie Christian, guitar, Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet, and the altoist Charlie Parker. This was ... later to become the real genius of modern jazz, as Louis Armstrong is the genius of traditional jazz. One of these musicians, Charlie Christian, is not only a founder of modern jazz but also one of th...

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... ever operate between us as a bridge." (88) The "chasm" is where the story begins, and revolves around the entire story. Sonny's brother is aware of the "chasm," yet what Sonny is thinking remains mysterious. Sonny's brother worries all the time about the misunderstandings between Sonny and himself; Sonny has never been ... able to understand him, because of the seven years difference in their ages. For Sonny's own good, when his brother was in the army, he let Sonny stayed with his ... wife and her parents. Where he was going to school, and practicing his piano as well. He was doing jus...

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