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    Blues And Gospel

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    on the fact that blues is one of jazzs greatest influence. It summarizes what blues is, and the aspects of blues that have found their way into the seams of jazz. The article describes how the influence cannot be explained only with words, you have to listen and hear the emotions of both, how both genres are important and meaningful. The meaningful lyrics and sounds and tones of the two have influenced so many other genres…

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    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…

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    History Of New Orleans

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    its traditional love for jazz music. In fact, this is the birthplace of jazz music. The original music evolves and creates some different kind of jazz, which just the tribute for the original creators. Today, we discuss that. A Little history: New Orleans music has some African music style’s influence. The roots or the music can be traced back to Congo Square in New Orleans in 1835, where the local people play music and also dance on that music on Sunday’s gathering.The jazz music did not…

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    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 International, Broadway 96 to name a few and she has an affinity towards the journey in dance music hence music…

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    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 performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded on July 1 1959, at Columbia Records' 30th Street Studio in New York City. “Take 5” is the biggest selling jazz single of all time, it is played up to today and has been featured in many movies and TV…

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    Speakeasies In The 1920s

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    entertainment to avoid being detected. Many local African American musicians were hired, giving jobs to hundreds of working musicians. Speakeasies soon ushered in the age of Jazz music. The simultaneous introduction of the commercial radio which first opened up in 1920 accelerated the spread of Jazz. Speakeasies paved the way for great Jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bonjangles Robinson and Ethel Waters. In a Text of Interview in 1938, worker Frank Byrd describes the…

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    Jazz Music Research Paper

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    Jazz is known as one of the most influential forms of music in the history of the United States. Jazz began when one of the most historical wars, World War I, had just ended. It has many origins, from New Orleans to Kansas City to Memphis. New Orleans is the main center from where many of the influential pieces and origins were located. A big part of the development of jazz came from a lot of people who went to many bars and warehouses. What had made jazz be seen as a different perspective of…

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    However, African music is all very similar in some ways and is connected very highly to African dance. African music helps create connections between the people of the community and is used a mode of communication. Talking drums, signal drums and songs are all forms of communicating in Africa. African music is focused much more on rhythm than on harmony…

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    However, this jazz & Latin music fusion Puente was trying to achieve did not take place until the 60s, running parallel with the precursor of the 70s boom in the United States. During this time, Puente successfully fused jazz and Latin music, with the help of Buddy Morrow, in his LP Revolving Bandstand. The album was definitely not a departure from Latin Music, or jazz music, but was exactly what Puente set out to do. He continued to fuse jazz and Latin music in his 80s recordings…

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    Jazz music is the most quintessentially “American” of all music traditions for many reasons. Many people, of different cultures or ethnic groups, have come together to share their love of jazz music. “Jazz has gone from being America’s music to the world’s music.” (www.jazzinamerica.org) “The French, Spanish, and African, Italian, and Irish- found common cause in their love of music.” (www.nps.gov) To some jazz was known as the result of the melting pot, New Orleans. Jazz was created in the…

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