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Music 121 D Critics of Jazz Music The Jazz musical event I attended was performed at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge by pianist Patricia Barber, drummer Jon Deitemyer, and bassist Patrick Mulcahy. This jazz club has been one of Chicago’s most historic, and popular jazz clubs for a long time now. It has a quiet, and peaceful environment which is one of the reasons that helps you to fully enjoy the Jazz music that is being performed. This is the first time I have attended a live Jazz musical show ever…

unable to find a Jazz concert near my hometown, I decided to view a full concert available on YouTube. The Jazz concert consisted of 6 songs, they all sounded different though. I have never sat down and listened to a Jazz concert, and I have been to more than 50 concerts in my time (Incubus, Apartment 26, Cold Chamber, econoline wine crush, Rob Zombie, chevelle, Orgy, Deadsy, Korn, Days of the new, The Chemical Brothers, just to name a few). The concert was label to be of the Jazz genre, I…

Music has influenced all regions in different aspects of life, contributing in the making of history. A genre of music that is considered to be the basic foundation of all genres ranging from the old days to the twenty first century is the blues. When you think of the blues, you tend to think about personal adversity. A common theme in the genre of blues is that people talk about problems they are having, any feeling of regret they may have, and feelings of betrayal. However, the blues is also…

Claude Debussy’s, Igor Stravinsky, and Arnold Schoenberg, helped push the transformation of music in the 20th century. Tired of the tender melodies and the emotional tone of the romantic era,these composers experimented with tone, rhythm, and melody eventually defining news styles of music. The purpose of this paper to identify the similarities and the differences between Debussy’s La Mer, Stravinsky’s Right of Spring, and Schoenberg’s Erwartung. Claude Debussy’s La Mer is an orchestral…

Classical,Jazz,Rock,Hip-Hop,and Rap.Classical music and Baroque music both use symphonies to deliver their particular sounds, Classical music significantly stresses on a solitary song that every one of the instruments play. Established music began in Europe,around the regions of Italy,Austria,and Germany. "Established music was made amidst 1750 and 1830.Jazz is a remarkable American style of music that created in the mid twentieth century in urban territories of the United States. Jazz initially…

good fortune, and jazz music. Jazz music, at the time, was the rhythm of the people. It moved with their joy and beat with their jubilance. But in 1929, everything changed. Tragedy struck, and the Great Depression befell the country like a suffocatingly thick blanket, smothering the flame of the American people. Despite these circumstances, or perhaps, because of these circumstances, people found the burning need to create and experience music deep within their souls. Jazz music, instead of…

Louis Armstrong was one of the greatest Jazz Musicians of all times. Louis Armstrong had defined what it was to play jazz, throughout his amazing abilities, his joy and spontaneity which allowed him to be quick on creating inventive music, which still allows him to dominate jazz today. Jazz is a form of music that has been consistently defining itself among the music industry and the African-American culture. Jazz music has also become a major tradition throughout America, where it has grown and…

they know. Since they were uneducated blacks only spoke the language that they know. They church was their way of expressing themselves, many black became very religious after civil war. This Black language grew into something more, such as jazz. During the Jazz Age the blacks had their music and it was theirs. But in today’s time many minorities, such as blacks, are treated threatening and end up being accused of something they have not…

Racism is a battle African Americans have been fighting since the beginning of time and will continue to fight until the end of time. After centuries of enslavement, innocent lives being taken and countless sit-ins we continue to face the same opposition. The same devil just in a different form, because even though African Americans have acquired freedom we are still slaves to a racially structured society. Just look at Michael Brown, who is one of the many young African Americans whose life…

Did you know that Ellis Bell, the author of one of the greatest love stories ever told, Wuthering Heights, was actually a female who used this pen name as a cover up? Emily Bronte wrote the book under a masculine name because in the late 1800’s it was frowned upon for women to exceed through any form of entertainment. The 1920’s are noted to be a turnaround for females who aspired to write and publish novels. The “Roaring Twenties” was a significant transition in American entertainment because…