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and their premier record Lively Stable Blues. Either way jazz started near the 20th century and has been an influential stylistic form of music ever since. Jazz really began flaring up in the early or roaring twenties. Some of the biggest names that arose during the twenties were King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. These are…

news., he was wearing an ironed white coat and jet black slacks. As soon as he walked through the door my mother and my father looked up like goofers. There hazel eyes looked up at the doctor who seemed hesitant on the next couple of words he was going to say. The joyless room began building suspense. Soon the man spoke.…

Wicked Wanda floated around her large lab when she heard the usual soft ding and she floated her way gracefully over to the counter and she took the glass bowls to the table in the middle of the room. She looked at the request lust and saw desert/sand, she took the rocks from the cabinet, 3 precisely. Wanda threw the rocks into one of the glass bowls. She used her glue that she had created, she called it Super-duper Sticky Slimy Super Glue, she used it to glue them brows together to make a glass…

strongly influenced by two specific genres known as the Blues and Ragtime. Before formally taking on the name blues, the blues originated within the slave communities of the south as spritual songs and narrative ballads. As African and European musical cultures began to merge, the blues became a unique blend of both African and European musical traditions that did not exist anywhere else before its emergence in the United States. Eventually the blues…

music styles, Ragtime and Blues are two contributors which largely influenced the emergence of Jazz. Jazz is a form of music combines the characteristics and sound of Ragtime and Blues. The syncopation and improvisation of Ragtime and the polyrhythm and swing feeling of Blues all became the main features of the jazz. I am going to talk about…

saxophonist based in Paris, Logan Richardson, released interesting albums in the past to make us curious about his next step. Shift, his Blue Note debut, was recorded with the illustrious Pat Metheny, Jason Moran, Harish Raghavan, and Nasheet Waits, but the new album, Blues People, features a new band whose exploration of sound allows a sensible coexistence between post-bop, blues, hard rock, hip-hop, and electronica. Throughout the 14-song repertoire, a past and present reflection on black…

a famous blues and folk singer from the late 1950’s up until 1999 during that time she used her music to address the inequality that African Americans were facing at the time. Many of her songs in the mid-1960’s was addressing the attacks and inequalities that African Americans were facing giving her the title voice of the Civil Rights Movement. After having enough of this countries racial politics she ended up moving to the south of France, but not before making a lasting impact on blues and…

For our jazz choreography project, my group based our choreography on the style of jazz dance from the 1920’s and the 1950’s. We did not base our choreography on a specific dancer instead we based our piece off of the style of the flappers. In our choreography, we tried to emulate the upbeat, sassy, and cheeky nature of the flapper's style of dancing. We accomplished this by incorporating the Charleston and some elements of the swing dancing and the jitterbug. In the creation of our piece, we…

The Treasure of Lemon Brown Everyone has a treasure right. What is your treasure? The story of Lemon Brown is about a boy who wanders into an old tenement and finds a homeless man, named Lemon Brown. He was a blues singer and a good one. He said “I sung the blues so sweet that if I sang at the funeral, the dead would commence to rocking with the beat.” Lemon Brown’s treasure was a harmonica and some newspaper clippings. He gave his son these items and his son died in the war. Lemon told…

Robert Allen Zimmerman, mostly know as Bob Dylan, has recently received the Nobel Prize for Literature being the first songwriter to ever win it. In order to achieve this nomination, it all initiates with the Swedish Academy that constitutes of 18 members that will evaluate nominations. Once it that has occurred, the Academy will send out invitations to a specific group of people between 600-700 individuals that have the chance to participate, and they must follow specific deadlines in order to…