Kind of Blue

from times of drastic change, the great depression and war. It was only destined that such a legendary genre of music would emerge. Rock and roll first emerged primarily of combinations most familiar with African Americans, such as blues, boogie woogie, jazz, jump blues and gospel. Typical instruments found in early rock and roll consisted of the electric guitar, double bass, bass guitar, and optional piano or saxophone. There were later many different types of rock music that emerged after the…

Time Out featured a total of seven songs that were named “Blue Rondo A La Turk”, “Strange Meadow Lark”, “Take Five”, “Three To Get Ready”, “Kathy’s Waltz”, “Everybody’s Jumpin’”, and “Pick Up…

misses school. He plays his music too loudly and owns a gun. He probably has a criminal record. Now, what skin color do each of these students have? Assuming that the second student is black just because of the violent nature of his life is racist. This kind of assumption is’t just a problem for students and their chances of getting into college, but it’s a problem that people of color face everyday. For example, on February 23, a black couple was fatally shot by the police. Both the man,…

Song number 1: “Love for Sale” a constant tempo, very steedy. The sound was slow, with a slight funk to it, very relaxing to senses. I would categorize it as blues. There seemed to be a lot of improvisation by the guitarist while he performed his solo. It was my favorite part of the song; it was really cool to see it. Another interesting aspect of the tune was the drummer; he used the cymbals and the high hat…

In earlier years, black people plays blue, and white people plays country music, they have their own audience, black people does not have high social status, they were been treated as slaver, they could not get good education, good jobs, they do not have the right they deserve, in The '50…

For example, segregation, and Vietnam world. They used Jazz as a kind of expression, as a political believes. The most notable musicians in these time were Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, and Dave Brubek. All of them moved the Jazz to another level. A new kind of Jazz became, some improvisation, no guides, new styles such as “Bebop”, many “solos”, different “tempo”, among others. Miles Davis recorded “Kind of Blue”, it was the best seller. He was a Jazz trumpeter. Another icon…

over the years, including Elvis, Madonna, and even Miley Cyrus. The 1950s introduced America to a new style of music called hokum blues that featured black artists who used double entendres in their lyrics (Covach, Flory 70). Examples include Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog” and Big Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle, and Roll”. Filled with innuendos and metaphors, hokum blues introduced sexuality into popular music in the black community. The more mainstream, white version of this sexual image in the…

time period. One of these great innovators was George Gershwin, who created Rhapsody in Blue. Gershwin’s introduction of a new music style in his first performance sent waves around the country that pulled in people of all music preference. The musical genius, Gershwin, created a new rhythm and style by combining Classical and Jazz music. In the time before Gershwin rose to fame for his song Rhapsody in Blue, Jazz was constantly changing with the time period. Jazz first arose as an exciting new…

The differences between these two kinds of Jazz mentioned in the test seems to have more to do with “the five-year gap between them,” a lot can happen in five years especially with the introduction of record players and the radio (Starr & Waterman, 88). The suggestion that “the ODJB’s recordings are rooted in the past,” being more similar to ragtime than The Creole Jazz Bands style of Jazz, which “points toward the future of jazz” makes a valid point (Starr & Waterman, 88). ODJBs were playing…

Texas Blues. Texas blues is a subgenre of blues. The guitar played heavily throughout the song, and the song had guitar solos and ‘licks’ or small riffs. This is very common in Texas blues. This reminded of Stevie Ray Vaughn, a well-known Texas blues musician. The song also had the 12 bar blues feel to it which made me notice that it was a blues song. The male singer had roughness in his voice as he discussed Texas life in his song. After the song ended, I looked around to see what the kind of…