Fletcher Henderson

as a striker. He joined Watford in 2010. Deeney was a central figure as Watford gets their promotion in the premier League. 19-Team: West Brom West Brom Captain:Darren Fletcher Darren Fletcher was made West Brom Captain February 2015 as he joined the Club on a free transfer during January transfer window. Darren Fletcher experience helped West Brom to avoid the relegation. 20-Team: West Ham…

Fletcher Toliver Jr. November 1, 2016 Dr. Barnes AP English & Composition Précis Chapter 1 In the chapter one of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, written by American Poet Maya Angelou, explains how when she and her older sibling, Bailey, were forced to move to Stamps, Arkansas. According to Maya, They were wearing tags with the text “To Whom it May Concern”. She supports this explanation by describing how their parents sent them by train with a porter from California to Stamps, Arkansas to…

The Soul of American Jazz Name: Louis Armstrong Born: New Orleans Died: New York August 4th, 1901 July 6th, 1971 (age 69) Mention of jazz music, the first people to associate people, is likely to be a clown image, nicknamed Uncle Satchmo (Uncle Satchmo), little cute. He is a husky singer, with a small hand often. His New Orleans jazz style, in Dick Dixieland peiqu, playing the advantages of simple structure, dramatic works. This is Luis Armstrong. He is a huge jazz musician that everyone…

Syncretism--the blending together of cultural elements that previously existed seperately. This dynamic remains powerful even in the present day. Forcibly torn from the social fabric that had given structure to their lives, African immigrants clung to the elements of their culture that they could carry with them. Among these elements were music and folktales. Although there were many people who had an influence on jazz and changed the dynamics of the culture and race relationships people like…

southern background, it didn’t mix well with the northern mentality of other musicians from Henderson. According to “Louis Armstrong” by Biography.com Editors and Tyler Piccottl, it states, “However, Armstrong’s southern background didn’t mesh well with the more urban, Northern mentality of Henderson’s other musicians, who sometimes gave Armstrong a hard time over his wardrobe and the way he talked. Henderson also forbade Armstrong from singing, fearing that his rough way of vocalizing would be…

American popular music from the 1930's reflects the cultural and social characteristics that shaped the American identity during the period. The music of the thirties is important when trying to understand the American people during a time of new technology, a massive growing in the population of cities, and a large scale depression. Over the course of the thirties, American taste in music changed dramatically. In the mainstream it moved from the bland and unchallenging "sweet" sound of Guy…

styles, new arrangements, and put this genre of music on the map. Over the years, there has been an ongoing debate on who is the greatest contributor to jazz music. There has been many great jazz musicians such as Benny Goodman, Count Bassie, and Fletcher Henderson just to name a few. But, there are two jazz musicians who can be argued as the best of the best. These two jazz icons are Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. The question is, which one of these two legends is the greatest contributor…

The blues originated from African-Americans on Southern plantations in the nineteenth century. Slaves, ex-slaves, and families of slaves were the main creators of blues music (Kopp, AllAboutJazz.com). Bessie Smith is known as the most popular female blues singer in the 1920s. Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on the fifteenth of April of 1894. Growing up, Smith did not really have her parents in her life due to them both dying while she was young, around eight or nine years-old (Editors…

Our final person we chose was Louis Armstrong. Imagine you’re walking through Chicago during the 1920s. You walk into the Lincoln Gardens to listen to Joe Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band. You begin to listen and look to see a man, barely 21, playing second cornet like nobody’s business. This is your first experience of Louis Armstrong. This is the man that will change the genre of Jazz and it will never be the same. Born on August 4, 1901, Louis Daniel Armstrong came into this world and was raised on…

in 1924. Yet it was mainly black bandleaders such as Fletcher “Smack” Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong who popularized jazz in and beyond Harlem.” (Berg 7) The biggest of these had to be trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. Armstrong “ made his impact primarily as a solo artist. As early as 1923, he was noted for his stylish playing as a solo trumpeter in the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band, and he played with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1924.” (Berg 13). Louis Armstrong…