Jazz

consists of drums, more specifically tama talking drums, Bougarabou drums, water drums and ngoma drums. However, it also consists of instruments like string instruments and flutes. African music has influenced American music greatly through blues and jazz music. Due to the influence of western culture, traditional African music and dance has lessened in…

The Quartet band was situated with drums in back center, bass in back right, keys in back left, and trumpet had the front section to himself to pace as he played. My server told me that Willem Paynter has a contract with the owner to provide live jazz every second Wednesday. The server also mentioned that the group that Willem brings is normally different every week as there is not a set band. So, Willem Paynter is the band leader but doesn’t have a consistent group, allowing for each…

focus his literary works on racial injustice (Langston Hughes Biography). Hughes's was one of the leading voice for the Harlem Renaissance (Meet the Writer 136). Through Langston Hughes’ life, we see how he became successful, impacted many, and how jazz was used in his writings. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902 (Langston Hughes Biography). As an adult, Langston wrote many literary works about his lonely childhood. His…

technically skilled and emotionally consistent guitarist, doesn’t confine itself to just one style. His salutary versatility and originality have been noticeable throughout a successful career that spans more than 40 years, addressing styles such as jazz, funk, rock, M-base, post-bop, and fusion with the same unquestionable quality. After last year’s “Past Present”, a Grammy-winning masterpiece of original works, Scofield releases “Country for Old Men”, an album exclusively made of covers that…

received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. Louis contributed many important innovations, including improvisation of both lyrics and melodies. Nicknamed ‘Satchmo’ for his large, satchel mouth, he remains a gem in the crown of New Orleans musicians. A jazz festival is held every year in his city, in his name, and he has an entire park dedicated to him as well. From the grandson of slaves to a man that broke the color barrier with his music, Louis Armstrong trekked an unbeaten path throughout…

Sonny’s Blues is a short story written by James Baldwin that showcases a flawed relationship between two brothers because of their opposing ways of seeing life. In the story the narrator and his brother Sonny go through many moments in the story in which expresses how crushed their relationship is and the many times they have tried to see eye to eye. A very heavy theme in this story is the obligation towards brotherly love which means all the things that they have done for each other because of…

his passion of jazz.(Top 10 Facts) He was born on August 4, 1901 which he came from a poor family in New Orleans which he spent his childhood in poverty. Armstrong started to love music when he was in prison and he was considered one of the most influential artists in Jazz history.(Biography) Louis Armstrong’s enthusiastic way of defining jazz made him an idol to America. Jazz became known as the son of Louis Armstrong just from the way he had interpreted his point of view on jazz. Amazing…

eventually achieving salvation through his passion. Although Sonny and his older brother did not always agree, they eventually gain a mutual understanding of each other – Sonny's brother learns to empathize with Sonny's struggles and his love for jazz, and Sonny realizes his brother only ever wanted the best for him. Their newfound connection finally allows Sonny to free himself from the darkness that had plagued him throughout his…

people, but during festivals they were all over the city, and so were we. At school, we wouldn’t eat lunch at the same table as the white boys, but at the festivals I could be right there and nobody would pay any attention to me. Once during the first Jazz Festival in 1970, Mama gave me some money to buy gumbo with and when I was buying the gumbo I saw a little white boy from my school staring at me. At first I thought he was gonna come hit me and steal my food, but instead he motioned for me to…

a modern jazz musician stated, “Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.” Though Marsalis was not alive during the Harlem Renaissance, his statement could not have matched its motif more fully. Jazz was a language that both white and black Americans could speak. It was an intersection that allowed insight into the reality of segregation. During the jazz era,…