... . But James P. Johnson is one of the originators of the style known as stride piano. He also combined the elements of Ragtime with the elements of the Blues along with Jazz. The Jazz-Gospel connection began with Thomas A. Dorsey, often called the Father of Gospel Music, migrated from Atlanta to Chicago as a young man. His father was a Baptist minister and his mother ... September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia. Known as "the Genius " he was a bandleader, a composer, a singer, and a great pianist. There are many musicians who stamped their mark on the influence of Jazz and its connections to...

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... and New York that experienced the biggest immigration of musicians and it was these two cities that would have the most influence on Jazz in this new Jazz Era. Chicago created a good home for these migrating musicians for several reasons. In Chicago, there was a growing African-American population ... 1922, Armstrong rode the train from New Orleans to Chicago to join his mentor Joe Oliver and play in the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. The Creole Jazz Band was busy playing the popular Lincoln Gardens Cafe, which catered to the growing African-American population in Chicago. During this ti...

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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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... developed their own essence to add to the growing culture and fostered the musical scene to what it is today. Through this development, jazz was born and brought out unique musicians who expanded the genre towards regions that further refined the sound. Before that refinement could be made ... Despite the differences between ragtime and the blues in their origins, forms, and desired purposes, these differences were vital in establishing the foundation of jazz. Ragtime and the blues emerged from different spectrums in African American backgrounds. Each genre has individual experiences that...

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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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... World War I, flourished through the twenties, and went away at the dawn of the Great Depression. Consisting of mostly literally works, the Harlem Renaissance also produced a new black music called jazz. This music called jazz was an important part of the renaissance producing icons like Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. The renaissance was also sometimes called the ... Jazz Age because of the connection between the music and the movement. The development of jazz came from the effects of the "Roaring Twenties" (Watson 107). Being a part of the actual Harlem Renaissance, ...

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... from Indianapolis. The "elevation" of the blues by its integration into ragtime -- led by W.C. Handy ("Memphis Blues," "St. Louis Blues") beginning in 1912 -- played a major hand in the birthing of jazz; the freedom of improvised vocal and instrumental call-and-answer was probably an attraction for ragtime musicians. For another decade, the blues itself was still mostly played live for phonograph ... the most significant of the practitioners, and his extensive recording and traveling helped spread his reputation. Also of note was Blind Blake, who virtually alone among rural bluesmen ven...

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... the world, which is trapping all the growing young men into it. Sonny's brother sees his brother trying to be a jazz musician, he watches him going through all the difficulties in his life, and how he doesn't want Sonny to be a jazz musician, in the end how he sees his brother Sonny playing at the nightclub. Sonny's brother is an algebra teacher ... stink of these garbage cans!'" (96). From the conversation, readers get to understand how their different attitudes about life and music deepen the "chasm" between them. Sonny wants to be a jazz musician, and his brother wants him to finish ...

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... any culture, by observing and interacting with the participants I gained a unique insight into the life of the city. John Abercrombie is a 59 year old Anglo jazz guitarist from New York who is a mainstay in the jazz community. The downtown venue at which he performed, The Elephant Room, attracts an older, upper middle class crowd, by making their drink prices high and having ... were female. When I asked the lone black man there, Jim a 38 year old, what attracted him to the show he told me, "My parents raised me on jazz, and John Abercrombie is one the best jazz guitarist out there". An...

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... for women on how to effect change. Female blues artists were the first women to be employed by the microphone. For women, establishing themselves as female rock, sound, funk or jazz artists was extremely difficult because the standards society held for women didn't include "music star." But there were many women who pulled it off. Peggy Lee was one of these ... wrote music and lyrics for motion pictures. Critic George Hoefer of "Downbeat" magazine has called her "the greatest white female jazz singer since Mildred Bailey." Leonard Feather in "The Encyclopedia of Jazz" has described her ...

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... any culture, by observing and interacting with the participants I gained a unique insight into the life of the city. John Abercrombie is a 59 year old Anglo jazz guitarist from New York who is a mainstay in the jazz community. The downtown venue at which he performed, The Elephant Room, attracts an older, upper middle class crowd, by making their drink prices high and having ... were female. When I asked the lone black man there, Jim a 38 year old, what attracted him to the show he told me, "My parents raised me on jazz, and John Abercrombie is one the best jazz guitarist out there". An...

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... allowed musicians to explore entirely new ideas and presentations." (Reublin). Music would not have its beat, and for specific types of music, such as jazz or blues the rhythm meaning would disappear! Blues (and then a take off, jazz) came from the pain and sorrow felt by the African Americans during the time of slavery and discrimination. They would sing songs like "Swing ... international sensation."(Aristotle). Elvis is a perfect example of the African rooted music becoming mixed into one entire American style music. Still today there are many African influenced music. Blues and jazz...

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... York City, in the 1970's. It then migrated to the west coast cities, such as Los Angeles, California. Rap music is influenced by many genres, including rock and roll, disco, jazz, and of course blues. Like Blues, rap is usually spoken or chanted. Rap music is rebellious in nature, which makes sense, since rap was created out of rebellion to disco ... known to really give back to their communities. Blues musicians have left behind great legacies and have influenced many other genres that are relevant today, such as Rock and roll, jazz, and rap....

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... . America loved the sounds of the steel guitar and vocal recordings. Hawaiian steel guitar music in the 20's and 30's was a major, and very sophisticated genre that also encompassed the Jazz, and Blues. The best-known national player of that genre was Sol Hoopii, who "is without a doubt the most important and musically influential Hawaiian guitarists of this century. In addition ... to affecting all Hawaiian guitarists, Sol also had great influence on Western Swing and Country music. He was a great traditional Hawaiian stylist, but was the first to really blend jazz and blues with the Ha...

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... -musicians like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton developed a form of rock that was greatly accepted by society during its time of social movements. The Doors, led by lead singer Jim Morrison, The Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention personified the dark side of rock. The Doors explored "the other side": nightmarish conflations of sex and death. These bands gave ... ...

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... the blues orientation of Rock & Roll, although in an ever louder and more electric version. During the 1960's many other styles of music arose from Rock like, Motown, Soul music, Jazz-rock, Folk-rock and others. The Motown style is characterised by a lead singer singing a story line, which is the melody, to the accompaniment of elegant, tight, articulate harmonies of a backup ... ...

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... people are life is influenced by the type of music that they hear. I think that people would be interested in finding out what made the people like rock and roll, jazz, and the blues. In the 1950s, World War Two in people started have babies the population was growing. Americans started buying car; the people income went from 3,000 to 5,000in ... ...

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... Presley began to re-record recordings by black performers. These new versions were not exact copies of the originals. The newer versions were faster and the country style guitar replaced jazz styled instruments. The lyrics also changed from black slang to language that was more acceptable to white audiences. During this time of the mixture of blues and country, black musicians ... ...

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... on the society in those years. Rock n" Roll was originated in the United States in the 1950's when rhythm and blues was combined with country music and some elements of jazz. The lyrics were simple and catchy, themed around love, loss of love and teenage rebellion. African-American singers were the first ones to play Rock and Roll. Soon, production studios ... ...

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... easier to accept and less likely to threaten his secure lifestyle. At the end of the short story, the narrator goes with Sonny to a nightclub to listen to him play jazz music with a group of his friends. And it turned out that everyone at the bar knew Sonny, or almost everyone; some were musicians, working there or nearby, or not working ... ...

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... love me" was the entire message (Times Online). This song instantaneously became a hit especially to teenage girls and later the song became a legend. However why did the song become a hit? A Jazz man, George Melley, thought of the music as the start of a new revolution. The Beatles had something better than other music groups, which was the audience's approval rather than songwriters ... ...

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