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Parker Chinn Class 708 Now and Always It’s mine. It suits me. Parker. It reminds me of some of the things I like to do, writing music, and acting. This is because I was named after famous jazz musician: Charlie Parker! I was also named after actress: Parker Posey! This makes me feel special because I can look up to these people. But writing music and acting aren’t the only things I like to do! I also like to bake, teach, read, write, and paint! To me, my name means smooth jazz on…

Bronx-born natural singer Jessica NYC has a sultry wide range versatile voice with just a touch of heat~ a perfect match for genres of House, Jazz-Fusion, Neo-Soul music. In the mid 90's she was backup singing in Soho studios and co-writing songs with emerging talents. 
 Jessica NYC is a true New York City Girl that has partied at many of our beloved House and R&B nightclubs~ Underground, Danceteria, Palladium, Fun House, Webster Hall, Roxy, Tunnel, Zanzibar, Limelight, Bentleys, Bonds…

Synthesis Essay: David Ake analysing Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman was a jazz saxophone player who started his career in the 1950s by defying cultural, and musical standards. David Ake, composer, performer, and musicologist, analysed how Ornette Coleman created dramatic change in the jazz realm by defying the bebop era standards. Ake brings up many points of the standards that Coleman defied, such as: jazz virtuosity and masculinity, jazz performance and sex, and cultural perceptions of…

Billie Holiday was an African American jazz singer, and she was born in 1915, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since she dropped out from school, she started looking for a job to make money. Unfortunately, there weren’t any jobs of the type of work that she was looking for that were available. However, she auditioned as a singer in one bar, and she impressed the owners of jazz and blues, not with her ability to sing jazz and blues. Holiday's real uttered effect was Louis Pops Armstrong. She…

William Thatcher is a courageous and an ambitious knight in the movie “The Knight’s Tale” who was born in the Cheapside borough of London and always dreamt of changing his stars. In this piece of writing, I will be talking about his courageous, ambitious and caring acts he did through the movie. William was born a peasant. At that time in London, if you were born in a peasant you stayed a peasant for your entire life or if you were born a royal you would be a royal for your entire life.…

It is not rare that the media jumped to the coverage of this case, mainly because it involved the sports’ team of an elite university as it is Duke and because the “victim” happened to be African-American. Not only did the university’s administration and faculty rushed to turn their backs to the lacrosse team, but they also rushed to judge them. With president Richard H. Brodhead’s public statement that they were not going to support the lacrosse team in any way and then later, as a ramification…

Nataniel Adams Cole was born on March 17, 1919, in Montgomery, Alabama, born to his parents Pearlina Coles and Edward Coles. Coles had three brothers, Eddie, Ike, and Freddy, and a half sister Joyce Coles. When Cole was four years old his family moved to Chicago, Illinois. Cole’s first performance was “Yes! We Have No Bananas”, at age four he began formal lessons and at age 12 he learned not only jazz and gospel music, but also Western classical music. The family lived in the Bronzville…

William the Conqueror William was born in 1027 and he died in 1087. His father was Robert, Duke of Normandy and his mother was Herleve of Falaise. They never married and William was known as “William the Bastard” to his enemies – though this was never said to his face when he had grown up. In 1035, Robert died and as his only surviving heir, William became Duke of Normandy at the age of 8. William’s young age and the fact that he was born out of marriage, meant that many lords in Normandy did…

Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night” is a very interesting story. It is about a girl who dresses like a guy, who falls inlove with a guy, who loves the girl who loves her. Act two Scene four The duke (Orsino) is telling Cesario (Viola) that he can tell hes inlove with a young woman named Olivia. Cersario is trying to change Orsinos mind about it I saw two different short clips of this video, similar in content, but almost completely different. Each video had its own techniques, and feeling. The first…

the Jazz Age. Music from black musicians was so popular that clubs like The Cotton Club were opened. The club was initially just for white customers, and all the performers were black with the most famous being Duke Ellington.2 Jazz music was so popular that it helped artists like Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong careers take off making their music recognized to this day. Other great musicians played at the Savoy Ballroom, which was a club that people went to and danced to upbeat Jazz music…