Duke Ellington

When a boomerang is released into the sky, it makes a giant loop and comes back to its original location. This is the phenomenon that inspired the boomerang hypothesis applied to many different genres of popular music from the continent of Africa. For some African countries and its people, the boomerang was released during the slave trade. Not until slavery was abolished did the boomerang finally return to its origin. For other African countries, the boomerang was flung out much later, during…

especially when it came to his music. He ended the classical era and started the romantic era and changed the way symphonies were seen. His music had so much emotion and soul that other composers could not compete with in their music. Duke Ellington was a jazz composer from Washington D.C. He is known for taking…

though this proclamation only liberated a few black people this signal showed how things change that American treat black slaves. Since then more and more people move to New Orleans and play music together. By early 1930s, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Jimmy Lance Ford had begun to put a new rhythm from New Orleans music to New York City and Kansas City. It is very conducive to the…

Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which one sensory experience is perceived in more than one way by the body. There are numerous forms of synesthesia, all of which involve different combinations of sensory experiences. Grapheme-color synesthesia is the most common form, with 60% of synesthetes possessing this type. In grapheme-color synesthesia, symbols are perceived in different colors. For example, the letter “A” is commonly associated with the color red among synesthetes. A pop-out…

This essay will examine the “New Negro.” New Negro, or Harlem Renaissance, best described as an era of cultural phenomenon in which many high level of education blacks and very talented artists received public recognition. This period of African American was not only about blacks’ literary, but also because of its essential importance to twentieth-century musical, thought and culture. The “New Negro” corresponds with the Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties, Marcus Garvey’s migration movement for black’s…

Roaring Twenties: How the Fun Began The 1920s was the happy era. Everyone longed for a life of adventure and modernism. People were willing to leave their old life and start a new one. The economy flourished as people went out and bought all the new technology, CD’s, clothes, etc. Everyone wanted the latest inventions and wanted to be a part of every new trend. Entertainment in the 1920’s developed American culture and economy by introducing technology, events, and people that became history.…

Nella Larsen, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. In addition to the reading literature of African American, whites would travel to Harlem to be entertained by musical performers such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. Many of the movement pioneers were born during the days of slavery and used their life experiences to express the struggle of African Americans. Whites’ captivated with the lifestyle of Black Harlem began to seek and publish pieces of…

This piece will be ended with melody using pentatonic scale of Bb major and the chords progression of ‘turn around’ in score. ‘Don’t Get Around Much Anymore’ is a jazz standard composed by Duke Ellington in 1940. This piece was originally called "Never No Lament" but after lyrics by Bob Russell, a new title were added in 1942. This is a joyful piece that consist of 3 sections: A, B and C with mostly repeat the phrase of the first 8 bars of the…

For my concert report I attended the Mile High Jazz Festival presented by Flesher Hinton Co. on February 16, 2017. The event took place in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado Boulder at 7:30 pm. The concert consisted of a student ensemble and then after a short intermission a faculty ensemble. I decided for this report to select the most impactful song from each ensemble and write about their musical components. The student ensemble consisted of: a piano, a bass, drums, a guitar, 4…

of music African American blues, ragtime, and European-based popular music. Louis Armstrong have a major part with the jazz influenced. Mr. Armstrong was a unofficial ambassador of Jazz. He encourage and influences others to play jazz. One of Duke Ellington famous songs was about the moans cries, and the echoes of Africa. Jazz was an expression of African American…