Bebop

favoirites jazz musicians of all times; whereas, Dizzy Gillespie 's “Salt Peanuts” is one of mine favourite bebop tunes. In my opinion, both Armstrong 's “Heebie Jeebies” and Gillespie 's “Salt Peanuts” tunes are increadible, but each of them in their own way. First of they are from different jazz sub-genres. Louis Armstrong is mainly New Orleans Jazz; in contrast, Dizzy Gillespie is a bebop musician. It is kinf of obvious that they have different forms, “Salt Peanuts” by Louis Armstrong has…

The 1940’s were a decade of great change in America. In 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor; the first ever attack on U.S. soil, in 1944 American troops landed in Nazi-occupied Europe, and in 1945 the microwave oven was introduced to America. There was another great change taking place, but in the world of jazz music -- a new sound was developing that would alter the genre forever, pioneered by such people as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk. As 1940 was coming to a close, a…

time: New Orleans-style jazz, swing jazz, and in the 1940s bebop became a major type of jazz. After that,…

These bebop performers changed the jazzy danceable music to “music for musicians”. Some of the great bebop performers of the time where Bud Powell and Charlie Parker. Bebop was able to play faster tempos and more creative syncopations due to it not being a danceable music. There were three points that Samuel Floyd stated which shows that blues is a fundamental part of bebop. First, new harmonic conception led to more variety. Secondly, more…

In the 30s while it was becoming popular many regions created there own type, here are some examples: swing big bands, Kansas city jazz, bluesy, improvisational style, and Gypsy jazz. In the 40s Bebop and cool jazz were created. Bebop was known as challenging “musician music”. Cool jazz is smooth,calm, and has long melodic lines, these aren't as popular…

Drug addiction has contributed to a large portion of cultural foundations in The United States. Throughout the decades, the use of drugs has sculpted the principals of life in a majority of all ethnic backgrounds. “Sonny’s Blues”, written by James Baldwin, conveys a first person view of the effects of drug addiction and the recovery processes power to bring family back together after an immense amount of hardship. Throughout “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny has been released from jail and is dealing with…

“Sonny’s Blues”, written by James Baldwin, was first published in 1957 in Partisan Review and was later published again by Baldwin in a collection of short stories called Going to Meet the Man. “Sonny’s Blues” is the story of two brothers, one an Algebra teacher in Harlem and the other a jazz musician tuned heroin addict and drug dealer both suffering from the inequalities faced by African Americans before and during the Civil Rights Movement. The story does not begin with background information…

Bunny Briggs always said that he was born dancing and “When [he] finally faced the world [his] legs were kickin’. Bunny was a prodigy who performed all over Harlem then on Television and Broadway. He started dancing after seeing his aunt perform with Bill Robinson. He was able to reproduce the steps that Robinson had performed with ease. Bunny said he “couldn't believe how graceful [Robinson] was, and how calm. To move like that and smile. That's when [Bunny] decided.” He began performing with…

influence, Alice Coltrane (formerly McLeod) spent her early formative music years with both the gospels and spirituals of her neighborhood churches as well as the bebop jazz club scene Born…

al. 250). Music is related with specific periods and spots blues with the South's past and jazz, particularly bebop, with the cutting edge urban setting. Additionally, Baldwin describes the storyteller, to a limited extent, by his absence of melodic information; commentators take note of that the enthusiastic separation between the siblings is symbolized by the storyteller's newness to bebop. Also, analysts take note of that the storyteller's epiphanic involvement with the finish of the story,…