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This report summarizes a concert performed at the Lincoln Center in New York in March 2016 by a Dixieland band “The Gotham Jazzmen”. This report will highlight the origin of the genre and the band, the characteristic features of Dixieland, The contribution of “Gothan Jazzzmen” to the genre, and an overview of the concert. When it comes to the origin of jazz, people tends to have some mixed opinion about its birth place although most research agreed on New Orleans being the motherland. It…

A brand new Star Wars Land is coming soon to Disney Land. The theme park will be based on not only the previous six movies of the Star Wars Trilogy, but also the upcoming three new movies. The first ride of Star Wars land promises a battle between the First Order and the Resistance. The ride will have a back story from the upcoming Star Wars movie instead of the six previous movies. On the second ride, visitors will be in control Millennium Falcon, a space ship that Hans Solo flies. Stars Wars…

Saxophonist Odean Pope delighted the audience with fabulous arrangements of acknowledged tunes with his expansive Saxophone Choir. The sparkling harmonic sequences led to soulful approaches and the balance between the improvised and the arranged was awesome. They kicked in with “To the Roach”, a piece dedicated to the drummer Max Roach, and proceeded with bubbling sax improvisations on “Coltrane Time”, Pope’s ballad “Cis” and an Afro-Latin piece packed with baritone fills whose title I couldn’t…

With a stellar cast in a classic sci-fi horror premise, and a plethora fan theories already flooding the Internet, Life has a lot to live up to... and it nails it in exhilarating fashion from start to brutal finish. David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures' LIFE. | © Sony Pictures David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) in Columbia Pictures’ LIFE. | © Sony Pictures A team of scientists on board the International Space Station intercept a probe returning from Mars with the aim of conducting…

7. On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Fellow astronauts, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Lt. Col. Michael Collins, accompanied Armstrong. In 1961, during the Cold War, President John F. Kennedy addressed Congress to share his vision of space exploration for the United States. At that point the Soviet Union had outperformed U.S. in this category. One Small Step for Man Kind 1 billion people watched from 251,000 miles away as Armstrong said “That’s one small…

The Volcanic eruption of Mount Sourabaya was captured exclusively by NASA satellites. Volcanic ash and lava may not be the only thing the satellites captured. Aliens may have been watching the eruption even though humans couldn’t get a glimpse of the eruption live. According to NASA Earth Observatory, no humans live near the volcano’s ocean isle. If a UFO were spotted doing a flyby of the Mount Sourabaya eruption, it wouldn’t be the first time. There have been a number of UFO sightings at other…

In the 1960s, the United States’ NASA carried out the Apollo program, the third of its manned human spaceflight programs. The goal of the program was to achieve manned exploration of the Moon and retake the lead in the Space Race against the Soviets, who had beaten the US to the first satellite and human in space, and convince the American public of the superiority of the US’ technological capability. After three unmanned flights, mission AS-204 (named Apollo 1 by the crew, and officially…

Freelance Journalism I believe this piece is purely meant to be an informational piece. The author presents no opinion to the audience and has no purpose to write said article outside of educating the reader. “A couple of years ago, researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre discovered a thruster system which actually generates thrust, despite requiring absolutely no propellant.” (Paragraph 1, Line 1) Personally, I do not believe this is a quality opening hook, simply because it would…

The Apollo Missions are a very important part of the space explorations project that the United States of America underwent. The missions consisted of tests and planning that ultimately landed men upon the moon. This was a great feat for mankind and allowed us to further investigate space technology and transform it into what we have today so that we might be able to further discover the world around us (Nasa). These missions allowed for us to understand the moon and it’s relationship to the…

Marc Copland is a tremendous jazz pianist with a special ability to create stunning atmospheres with unrugged textures. Having collaborated in the recent years with the virtuous bassist Gary Peacock (Now This and Tangents) and the late guitarist John Abercrombie (39 Steps and Up and Coming), Copland never turned his back to his personal projects, which usually overflow with melodic sensibility and strong rhythmic discernment. The compositions included in Better By Far, his newest work, were…