Benny Goodman

Jazz didn’t start out as Jazz, it was once called Ragtime. This was a composed piano style and was the first major black music style. Jazz was an innovation from Ragtime, they had similar music in them like the piano, but Jazz added sole and also added more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical…

were able to get a fresh of breath air, as far as music is concerned (Richmond); there were numerous concerts right off the bat, ranging from the Ney York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, to artists like Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, and Benny Goodman, who had a successful 32-concert-tour himself in the Soviet…

Brendan Schiltz 24 February 2015 Professor Sweetin MUS-109 Home Assignment 1 African American work songs were originally developed during slavery, between the 1700’s and 1900's. Because they were part of a culture where they couldn’t write, they decided to record the songs orally when the era of slavery came to an end after 1865. Many of their origins in African song traditions may have been sung to remind the Africans of home, while others were forced to sing these songs by their owners to…

20s Music in the 1920's was commanded by jazz, soul and the peregrinating move groups that played what was well known at the time. Taking after the decimation of the main World War, Twenties music was entirely energetic and hopeful as the economy blasted and parties thundered in spite of banishment in the US. The music business as we probably am aware it was simply starting and all things appeared to be conceivable. Specialists, for example, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ma Rainey, Sophie…

The 1920s, conventionally referenced as the Roaring Twenties, was an era of great change and a time of exuberance in many regions of society. The world had just concluded the most immense war in history, World War I, and the United States of America was left virtually unharmed by the war. The U.S. was able to experience a decade of tranquility and prosperity succeeding the war. During this decade, America became the wealthiest country in the world. The denizens of the United States went through…

Spirit of the times Since the beginning of the time and the lost generation, the world has been entertained by instrumental sounds. This is a way to show happiness and to take stress away. In the 1920s, the African American community had a major development in jazz music. It was major progress. This type of music started to spread from one city to another city till it takes the whole country. The people were falling in love with the jazz music and it was approved as a good new musical…

standardized the drum set up we use today and the drum sizes, excluding the bass drum: 24” or 26” bass drum, 14” snare drum, and 16” floor tom. Gene Krupa was also the first drummer to have a high critically acclaimed extended drum solo, which was in Benny Goodman’s song “Sing Sing…

Why do you want to be a Mohai youth advisor? As long as I can Remember I have always wanted to lead. In elementary school, I was repeatedly called out and disciplined for bringing my ideas into the class plan without any call for. Early on I also discovered my passion for history and the language arts. In 4th grade, I marked all over my sisters AP world history books. My parents, of course, got angry for my actions, but wonderfully they recognized my interest and helped me pursue it. My room…

After the first form of ‘American’ entertainment rose to popularity in the 1840’s known as the Minstrel Show, the African American race faced new forms of bigotry not alike from the injustice they had experienced for the past two centuries as a part of the transatlantic slave trade. Originally being encouraged by their slave traders, the roots of African music trace back to the 1600’s where slaves began singing and dancing to help maintain their physical condition and keep them from despair and…

getting everyone on the dance floor to Lindy hop, Jive and boogie the night away. The group has three part harmonies, scorching horns lines and a rip roaring rhythm section, Flash Mob Jazz back to the Golden Age of Swing with music from the likes of Benny Goodman, Louis Prima and Louis Jordan to name but a few. Not to be kept down, they have additionally turned their impressive abilities to revamping melodies from the present day period, changing move and pop hits from the 21st century into…