Dizzy Gillespie

America was once described as baseball and apple pie. The Cold War forced Americans to choose the status quo of traditional American life or to face a new modernized age. The United States being a superpower in the Cold War locked horns with the very powerful Soviet Union over which form of economic and political system was best. The struggle for power in both countries was fought with espionage, nuclear deterrent, propaganda and a space race. The Cold War had formed a new frontier of changes,…

express why music will be a better healer of the wounds of racism as well as a defender and preserver of pop culture for minorities. Malcolm, Douglas. “"Myriad Subtleties": Subverting Racism through Irony in the Music of Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie.” Black Music Research Journal, University of Illinois Press, 1 June 2016, muse.jhu.edu/article/619211. Accessed 17 Sept. 2017. In this journal, Douglas Malcolm discusses the diminishing use of irony in jazz as a form of retaliation on the…

Jazz music has evolved greatly over many years establishing a large variety of different styles within it. I will investigate the deepest roots of jazz and also take a look at some of the theory behind. In the 17th to the 19th century the true and honest roots of jazz music were just beginning. Black slaves were placed in the deep south to work in cotton fields where they would sing African spirituals, chants, work songs and field hollers whilst slaving away all day long in the heat of the sun.…

Boston-based Indie singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and filmmaker Arthur Nasson is nothing short of prolific. He has garnered a great deal of attention globally for his forward thinking Rock and Experimental recordings. Having already released seven albums, two of which MTV commissioned exclusively their reality shows and two EPs in April of 2015. Our conversation involved his music, his thoughts on the current state of musical industry, and what the upcoming year holds for him…

ethnicity or audience. Bebop was created mainly from musicians improvising on the spot, drawing influence from only their feelings and skills. Dizzy Gillespie was a virtuoso-level bebop trumpet player who liked to entertain his audience by making them laugh, but was always serious about his music and made sure to deliver an outstanding performance. Gillespie was an example of how jazz music can narrow the gap between the creator of the music and the audience because during the performance,…

worked several jobs in order to stay afloat including a chicken shack where Art Tatum performed. While there he played with McShann’s band until he left in 1942 to play with Earl Hines band. This move led to future recording with fellow band mate Dizzy Gillespie as a duo. The night Parker “created” bebop, he stumbled upon it when he realized that the 12 semitones of the chromatic scale can lead to any key, which broke some of the limitations simple jazz had. Many of the older already…

made the structural format of theme-solo-theme. "This is a progression from the melody, to routine-ing the melody, to routine-ing the routine; the jazz lingo". Bing Crosby said this "American music begins and ends with Louis Armstrong". Also Dizzy Gillespie said at Louis' death that, "never before in the history of black music had one individual so completely dominated an art form as the Master, Daniel Louis Armstrong" ("Daniel"). Louis Armstrong created scat singing. Scat is just like…

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…

• 1890’s - Ragtime o West African (folk music/rhythms) European influence • African slaves went to America however at first their style of dance wasn’t received well. Some of the slaves later on went to Europe where their dancing was recognized. African jazz with European influences then made its way back to America. African Slaves→America→Europe Jazz→ Europe→America • Ragtime • Syncopated rhythms (marches, waltzes, other classic rhythms…) o Tommy Turpin (piano) Harlem Rag → the first…

From 1910 to 1940 the outburst of creativity among African-Americans occurred in every aspect of art. This cultural movement was termed The New Negro Movement, and later The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem, New York attracted a prosperous and stylish middle class, which sprouted an artistic center. African-Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage; The Harlem Renaissance movement was a period of cultural production from the end of World War I through the onset of the Great Depression.…