Bebop

characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz (Jazz | Definition of Jazz in English by Oxford Dictionaries).” Jazz music was different because it did not require a formal music education, like classical music did. Most jazz musicians were self taught and could not even…

Despite rising to significance nearly twenty years apart, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong share a common accomplishment: single-handedly changing the musical genre of jazz forever. With his trumpet in hand, Louis Armstrong took the jazz world, and even the entire world of music by storm with his famous gravelly voice and his focus on solo performances in jazz, a change of pace from the prominent collective improv focused jazz of the time. While making these groundbreaking changes to jazz,…

Year Age Major Events 1940 25 Billie performed for nine months at Café Society. She was supposed to sing again on 1 October 1940 but she did not turn up. So Barney Josephson cancelled her contract. She was replaced by Hazel Scott who sang there for the next seven years. In December 1940, ASCAP (American Society of Composers and Performers) went on strike. 1941 26 On 25 August 1941, Billie married Jimmy Monroe, a never do well, an ex-trombonist and a former pimp. She had been engaged to Sonny…

/ I like to work, read, learn, and understand life,” and so on. The records he prefers "for a Christmas present" mean a scope of tastes, from bebop to blues to traditional music, and the speaker to some degree probably finishes up in lines 25 and 26 that "being colored" doesn't make "dislike/similar things" others do, regardless of whether "colored" or not. The line break for line 25 likewise…

Miles Davis received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award in 1990 for his body of work from the beginning of the Bebop era all the way to Modal era. Miles Davis played for the last time at the Montreux Jazz Festival with Quincy Jones, where they played Davis’s early work. In 1993, Miles won his final Grammy for his recordings with Quincy Jones, but unfortunately Miles…

Have you ever thought about all the different myths that are spread all over the world across different countries? Well, there are a plethora of societies who have been telling myths for centuries and changing them moderately to fit with different cultures and experiences. There are mythologies told from Egypt to Mesopotamian, Norse, Hebrew and even Greek. Apollo is one of the Gods in Greek mythology who is favored. He is recognized as the God of many traits, such as: god of music, truth and…

Music is always in a constant cycle of change. Over 2000 years, the traditional customs of Western music was no different. Due to the social and religious developments that took place in Europe during these periods of time, concepts such as notes, scales, intervals, ideas all told stories about the character and lives of people through music. Music is a form that is defined as an expression of emotion through sound. To history, music is more than that. Utilizing what we know, recognizing…

blues, and Latin Jazz. Fusion Jazz started to develop in the late 1960’s and this was an era when a huge number of jazz musicians experimented with creating new sounds with electric instruments. The origins of fusion jazz are known to be jazz, rock, bebop, blues, funk, and 20th century classical music. Primary instruments used in fusion jazz consist of electric guitar, piano, electric piano, drums, saxophone, trumpet, electronic keyboards, bass guitar, and vocals. Fusion jazz differs in a way…

Jazz is a music genre that has characteristic qualities like swing, interaction by a group, slow beats and has its origins in New Orleans. Jazz came into existence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jazz has a fusion of African, European and American beats and instruments hence making it a unique type of music. During that time, New Orleans was the only place in the “New world” that allowed black people to own drums. This greatly contributes to the rise of Jazz in that they were able to…

The Historic Progress of Women – Why Not in Jazz? Nearly one-hundred and seventy years have passed since the first woman’s rights conference occurred in Seneca Falls, New York. Since that initial meeting in 1848, the women’s rights movement has had many feats of accomplishment. Women gaining political power, having more job opportunities, and gaining the right to vote are just a few of the successes that the women’s rights movement has attained (Office of the Historian, 2007). The music…