Bebop

If you are a jazz guitar artist, or just enjoy jazz and play to some degree, you can create your own business teaching jazz guitar! There are many things you can do, from teaching guitar lessons to creating a guitar video, to writing jazz lyrics, to creating a book or CD or DVD teaching other people how to play jazz (or as some people refer to it, modern jazz). Let's say you already play or sing in a jazz guitar band or group of some kind. Start by handing out a few business cards at your…

saw a heroin addict, former prisoner, and a musician. All three was not right to him and the term “existentialist hipster hero” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.) was a way for Baldwin to develop these characters to “emphasize the differences between them” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.) and the term “the more idealistic pre-war generation from the more cynical post-war one” (Bebop To Free Jazz. (n.d.). Alper Mazman had explained Sonny and his brother differences by…

Cool jazz is type of style of music that brought up from the United States after World War II. Cool jazz became popular during 1949-1959 and was considered the forefront of its time. What made Cool Jazz so diverse in its nature was its soft tempos and light tone. Cool Jazz was known for its large venue of players in a band, its mixed instruments and smooth rhythm. Jazz musicians at the time where moving away from the complexity of improvised solos and into a more arrangement and compression.…

Jazz, one of America’s original art forms, was created in America during the late 18th and early 19th century. During this time, African people were forced to work in large plantations and after a hard day of labour, these people would gather together to sing and play music. By singing these songs, the children would learn more about the land and culture and also help them forget about their worries and struggles. The call and response technique was used in these songs meaning the leader would…

been around for many years, and it is one of the most soul-full types of music there is. Not only is the twentieth century Jazz the most soul-full genre of music, but it is also the biggest contributor to modern day music. From Dixieland to Swing to Bebop, Jazz has shaped the latest music styles into what they are today. Dixieland is one of the most popular Jazz genres there was in the beggining of the twentieth century. It is also one of the most fun styles of Jazz to listen to. Most of us…

The club was widely known at the time for its quite contemporary jazz acts and racially integrated audiences, which was quite rare at the time. Parker and Gillespie traveled to Southern California to bring the style of bebop to the wider audiences and planned to stay there for six weeks. Around that time the musicians performed in different Californian cities, including Hollywood and Los Angeles (The History of Jazz 201). At the same time, professional musicians also had…

Hughes writes, “In terms of current Afro-American popular music… this poem on contemporary Harlem, like bebop, is marked by conflicting changes, sudden nuances, sharp and impudent interjections , broken rhythms, and passages sometimes in the manner of the jam session” (Hughes, 387). Montage is meant to be a poetic jam session on, and reflective of, life in Harlem; the cacophony of the adopted bebop style reflects the cacophony of Harlem. In the opening poem, Dream Boogie, he can especially see…

Coleman was a jazz saxophone player who started his career in the 1950s by defying cultural, and musical standards. David Ake, composer, performer, and musicologist, analysed how Ornette Coleman created dramatic change in the jazz realm by defying the bebop era standards. Ake brings up many points of the standards that Coleman defied, such as: jazz virtuosity and masculinity, jazz performance and sex, and cultural perceptions of masculinity and race. David Ake points out how jazz music gave a…

to change with the times, adding influences of bebop, 20th century art music, cool jazz, and rock and pop styles. Some important musicians of the Postwar Big Band Era were Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, and Maynard…

An interesting part of life is that things never stay the same. Change is something that always finds its way into our lives. Some change can be good, and some can be bad. Although the key thing is that whatever it may be, it’s essentially a new beginning or gateway. Music happens to be a prime example of this kind of transition as it has abundantly shifted overtime. What used to be viewed as the standard sound of music in the past, is now different in the present. The genre of jazz is one to…