Jazz fusion

Jazz has always been revolutionary. From its early beginnings as ragtime and blues, this music has swept the nation. Before jazz, “white” music dominated the United States, but soon enough classical music and folk songs were being replaced by songs that pushed the boundaries of music. African rhythms and hymns had taken flight and radically changed music in America by creating jazz. Music, as the world knew it, had been traded for something encompassing a whole new set of rules that began to…

a strong taste in rap I have attended a few shows and also seen many live instrument performances as well. Not until I took this class have I considered attending a jazz concert. When I looked on the pages given to us on events nearby, there wasn’t any that seem to catch my attention. Until I heard that CGCC was holding a small jazz comb. I thought I’d give a shot and plus it was free to attend. This concert had been different than any others I attended before, the performers were students at…

In 1974, Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters performed live in Germany. Pianist Herbie Hancock was accompanied by Bennie Maupin on saxophone, Paul Jackson on electric bass, Mike Clark on drums, and Bill Summer on percussion. The group performed a total of 5 songs including “Palm Grease”, “Sly”, “Butterfly”, “Spank A Lee”, and “Chameleon”. The second track performed in the concert is “Sly” and runs for ten minutes. The song begins with saxophonist Bennie Maupin playing while the rest of the group…

Music like hip hop, jazz, soul, and funk started to take notice and it started to take off. Music was a big part of the world about this time. Jazz because very popular in the 1970s. New instruments such as conga, timbale, guiro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments. Armando Anthony Corea is American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer. John McLaughlin was an English guitarist bandleader and composer of jazz. The disco music of…

J. Robert Oppenheimer had a very interesting life that undoubtedly influence his works in science. He was born on April 22, 1904 in New York City, New York. The Oppenheimers were Ashkenazi Jews. In his childhood, J. Robert Oppenheimer moved to Manhattan. Early on, Oppenheimer attended Alcuin Preparatory School. However, in 1911, he switched and began attending the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. His family was a part of the Ethical Culture Society. The Ethical Culture Society was an outgrowth…

Nuclear Fusion and the Remains of a Dead Star Throughout the history of Earth, multicellular organisms rely on one thing, the sun. And throughout the observable universe, there are million of stars out there just like our sun. These stars could be different however, with either more mass, volume, heat, etc. In our high school career, we learn a lot about astronomy, such as the order of the planets in our solar system. We also learn about gravity, rotation of planets, and how long it takes…

Objective-We are trying to figure out two things while doing this experiment. First thing is how strong is the radiation based on the distance from the source and if thickness of the material effects how much radiation gets through. Introduction-One thing to know about this experiment is Isotopes.Isotopes of an element are different versions with same number of neutrons but different number of neutrons. Also these isotopes can be unstable which means they decay overtime releasing radiation.…

is performed by. Jazz specifically has changed quite a lot throughout the years. Jazz has spread in popularity throughout the world through many famous musicians, through this diffusion of a popular culture, new branches of jazz were born, and it is the result of a mixture of african slave music that originated from western Africa, and American and European classical music. The original hearth of the original and classic jazz music was in 1895 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz became very…

Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926. Davis’ compositions changed the evolution of Jazz with masterpieces, such as, Kind of Blue in 1959, Sketches of Spain in 1960, and the Bitches Brew in 1969. Kind of Blue won the bestselling album of the year, and is one of the most sought-after recordings as late as 1998. It was the first Jazz album to reach double-platinum, in addition to being a Masterpiece, Kind of Blue brought Jazz into the final years of the bebop era. Sketches of Spain arrangement was…

music, jazz performer needs to have a series of theoretical and harmonic knowledge that is often the result of a long period of self-whether training in schools is a jazz or practical experience in jam sessions. The basic theory in jazz theory begins with the formation of intervals and triads that derives from it, and their inputs. The major scale and its seven modes-the Ionic, Doric, Phrygian, Lydian , Mixolydian, wind and locrio- are also part of the basic theory must completely dominate a…