Duke Ellington

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claiming, “tempo should be in your head” and that his band mates shouldn’t rely on him (Jazz, 291). Another musician who was on the forefront of this shift in music was Thelonious Monk, who was heavily influenced by such musicians as Fats Waller and Duke Ellington. However, Monk had a totally unique style – he would often start and stop suddenly, with short bursts of silence at unexpected times. His rhythm was unlike anyone else and it divided his audience, he really incorporated a kind of…

Why I want to become a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Incorporated Hello brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity Inc. I am Justin Davis, a student at Miles College and a native from Birmingham, Al. From the beginning of my college tenure I didn't know nothing about Alpha until I enrolled in college. I was interested since freshmen year for the simple fact the men of Alpha Phi Alpha carried themselves differently from any other greek organizations. Also they were one of the only…

music became more egalitarian than the rock and roll of the 1950’s and other popular musical styles from the preceding decades. The most popular recording artists before the sixties featured a recognizable star as the leader of the performers. Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Glenn Miller, and many others were widely known and their bands were mostly unknown musicians. Rock band from the sixties mostly had group names. The Rolling Stones, Cream, and The Beach Boys all typified naming this…

The first movement literature at no time in American history African-American writers gathered in the same place at the same time, such writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Paul Lawrence Dunbar and insular Hurston and many more. These writers created an environment and network that had never been seen before they were able to create poetry clubs throughout Harlem given the opportunity for young writers to display their skills and they would not network with each other not meeting weekly…

So far this has been the best century, known as the Roaring Twenties, so far. This year has been the best year for my husband’s business, he is the owner of the local theatre, and his business has started to boom in the recent years, people come for entertainment of the movies. We are in the Age of Weimar, this is where satiability, economic security, and living standards continue to improve. I can strongly say I agree with this because every ones lives, no matter if you were poor or rich before…

Ella Jane Fitzgerald, known as "The First Lady of Song," was perhaps the popular female jazz singer in the United States for over 50 years. Over her career , she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Ella was born on April 25, 1917 into a somewhat broken home. Her father left shortly after she was born and her mother moved in with her boyfriend a few years later. While Ella's early childhood years were happy, they took a turn for the worse after her mother died in 1932. Ella's…

In the Harlem Renaissance African American had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. Starting in about 1890, African Americans migrated to the North in great numbers. African American culture was reborn in the Harlem Renaissance. The migration eventually relocated hundreds and thousands of African Americans from rural South to the urban North. The Movement also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United…

American jazz legend Duke ellington once said “a problem is a chance to do your best”. Test taking has always been a problem to me because im always stressed and the teachers are always standing behind me like a tree. The ways i will overcome this is to talk less, pay more attention, not responding to others who try to talk to me during a test. Supposing that i stop talking as much, it may improve my test taking. Supposing that i stop talking as much, it may improve my test taking. Your skills…

Wynton Marsalis, a modern jazz musician stated, “Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.” Though Marsalis was not alive during the Harlem Renaissance, his statement could not have matched its motif more fully. Jazz was a language that both white and black Americans could speak. It was an intersection that allowed insight into the reality of segregation. During…