Lance Armstrong

Certain music genres have been associated with particular ethnic groups. This is the case of Jazz and African-Americans as well as Tejano and Mexica- Americans. In the article Tejanos and the Making of the Texas Jazz Festival, 1959-2013, Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. describes how minority ethnic groups influence one each other and how such influence is seen through music, especially jazz and Tejano music. During the historical study, San Miguel Jr. attempts to analyze the tendency Mexican Americans…

Ornette Coleman (or in full- Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman) was born in Texas on the 9th of March 1930 and died last year (2015) on the 11th of June, in New York. He was a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He released loads of albums over the span of his career and is known to be one of the most important initiators of free jazz. When Ornette Coleman was a child he played alto, then moved onto tenor saxophone in his teenage years. His early style of jazz was influenced not only by…

developed his trademark “crisp, jazzy song-and-dance style”. Calloway helped popularize the jitterbug through his unique style. Additionally, he was also a huge proponent of scat singing and helped popularize the singing style along with Louis Armstrong and others. Some of his most popular songs were Hi De Ho, The Jumpin’ Jive, The Lady with the Fan, Reefer Man, It Ain’t Necessarily So, and many other too. Most of his songs had a very upbeat and lively mood to them as they were meant to make…

Did you know that Yuri Gagarin, the first man to enter space, died at the age of 34 in a plane crash in 1968? Gagarin was an astronaut of the Soviet Union, also known as the USSR. In April of 1961, aboard the Vostok 1, Gagarin earned his place in the history books by being the first man to enter space. However, a few years before this in August of 1957, history is was also made when the USSR successfully developed a sufficient space launch vehicle in the form of the R7 Semyorka. Thus, the space…

Attending for the first time a jazz restaurant was a great experience; I attended Jazz Kitchen at Downtown Disney. The restaurant has a New Orleans style jazz club upstairs, it has New Orleans dining rooms and an outdoor Jazz balcony. When we arrived we noticed the presence of the restaurant has contemporary art made out of wrought iron. At the center of the waiting area, there’s a water fountain made out of Jazz instruments, such as trumpets, saxophones, clarinets, and flutes. The restaurant is…

Jack Kerouac was obsessed with the word cool. He then joined to Jazz Music club, where he got the new concept of bringing his own music on. Jack the musician himself find Jazz music to connect with his soul within himself which made him join Jazz club. African American culture has their own celebration area for the word cool. African American celebrate the Cool Musical Industrial day and Jack changes the meaning of the beat. Kerouac bought many changes in the meaning of beat, cool, bought a…

we have an extraordinary specialist on jazz with us. Who can explain jazz better than Louis Armstrong? The one whose band is helping to popularize jazz and is being really influential for other jazz musicians? Ina: Welcome to Peoples Magazine Mr. Armstrong. It’s great to have you here. Armstrong: It’s a pleasure to be here. Ina: So to begin with, why don’t you tell us something more about yourself? Armstrong: I am an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer. I have been working on music for…

Jesua Calderon John Phillip Sousa was not just a musician he was a great one. He thought all about the kinds of bands he wanted to do and were popular during that time. He also turned into a band conductor. One more thing that happened was that he became a well known musician. Never underestimate your dreams no matter what the cost. Sousa decided to look over the type of bands he wanted to do. Once he decided that, he named his band the “Sousa Band”. He also made it sound like a…

We have ventured to the moon, but now is it the time to take on another challenging space exploration and journey to Mars? One of the most proud accomplishments for NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, was leading America to the moon in the summer of 1969, "That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Mars seems like the next perfect destination, to have another achievement like that fateful day, but is it the best idea? Similar to Earth, Mars is an intriguing…

There are a lot of alien and UFO footage on YouTube. So it is always good to see a scary rocket that may be heading for Mars one day. New footage of a SpaceX rocket cruising down Main Street America may be intimidating to some YouTube viewers. Simply because it is footage of a real rocket that will go to space. And not a bizarre flying saucer that is blowing up volcanoes with laser beams. The footage of the SpaceX rocket was posted by USLaunchReport. There YouTube channel has a little more than…