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James Baldwin’s “Sonny Blues” and Katie Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” are two short stories showing conflict characters feel as though they have been release free from. Baldwin’s character Sonny conflict with his family not understanding his life struggles and was release by the show of him playing jazz music to help them understand. Jazz music was used to help reveal the stories. The character Louise Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” had the conflict of being not her own person and viewed…

Count Basie was a swing big band leader who began playing piano in the 1920s. He was born in New Jersey, and took stylistic influences from New York musicians such as Fats Waller (Yanow 155). He rose to prominence as a part of the Bennie Moten Orchestra, and then led his own orchestra after Moten’s death in 1935 (Yanow 155). As a bandleader, Count Basie was able to develop his own innovative style that significantly influenced the way jazz developed past the 1940s. His band was one of the top…

I found this passage in the last section of the novel to be very applicable to the personalities of Morrison 's characters. The quote can be interpreted in many different ways; however, I believe that Morrison is trying to explain a cycle of the “powerless” black man due to coming from a broken past. Many of the characters in Toni Morrison 's Jazz (1992) originate from “broken pasts.” Their pasts have been negative due to the lack of a stable foundation in their childhood. The characters in the…

Introduction: In this research task I will be focusing on “Ko-Ko” by Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys which was recorded in November 26, 1945 at WOR studios in New York City. Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys consisted of Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach on drums. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie played piano on most pieces while 19-year-old Miles Davis played trumpet. This song was in the Bebop genre which is part of jazz. The song I will be comparing it with, is “Take 5” composed by Paul Desmond and…

interesting ride with the earliest fully documented particular style of Jazz music emerging, which was centered in New Orleans, Louisiana; swing. It was not only a musical pastime, but a way of life; as those who brought it to us will live on forever. Duke Ellington was a pioneer of Renaissance jazz and one of the great elite jazz artists of his time. His most popular 1930 piece was "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing". Around 1931, he began developing the Swing style and was…

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in South Carolina in 1917 and died in 1993. He was a jazz trumpet player, bandleader and composer. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. He was one of the pioneers in bebop and had performed in Minton’s Playhouse and Monroe’s Uptown House. He worked with Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed in New York and Los Angeles. After the Los Angeles performance in December 1945, Gillespie returned to New York and Parker…

Do you know what Scat is or how to scat sing? Just look up Louis Armstrong, he created this masterpiece. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, he was born in the birthplace of jazz--New Orleans, Louisiana. He was in foster care throughout his teenage years. His father abandoned the family right after Louis was born, and his mother resulted to prostitution, so he was often left with his maternal grandmother. He began working in fifth grade where he developed a interest in music, this…

Jazz is sometimes referred to as "America's classical music". It has become a diverse genre with its roots in native American and African music; in particular, the blues, spirituals and rag time. Jazz first became a defined music form in the early 1920 springing from the US cities of New Orleans and later Chicago. Early Jazz was characterized by traditional rhythms and melodies being taken and improvised upon, giving a combination of swing and syncopation. Early Jazz performers of note included…

Many of people would love to live in a different time than their own. However, the position that varies on the topic is when. It all depends on one’s personal values and hobbies. A good decade to live in would be the 1950’s. This is due to the music, propaganda posters, and automobiles. The music of the fifties is remembered for having fantastic artists such as Elvis Presley, The Ink Spots, and The Andrews Sisters. Artists at this time were very proud. Being held as great musicians due to…

circumstances did not consume his passion, because through Staryhorn’s miraculous musical creativity he left a legacy in the advancement of jazz. The peak of Staryhorns career began at his risky choice to attempt to try and attain some type of position with Duke Ellington, whom was very popular and well-off during this time. Given the opportunity to perform on the piano in from of Ellington, Strayhorn clearly impressed him, however Ellington was still unsure of what to do because he already…