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notably through having Andrew slowly renounce his most basic needs of sleep, safety, and family. Correspondingly by displaying that these sacrifices end up causing more disturbances than actually moving Andrew towards his goal, Chazelle demonstrates that sacrificing basic needs isn’t healthy; it is only when we secure them that we succeed. In the end, the viewers are left reviewing their own goals and what they themselves might be sacrificing to attain them; perhaps even realizing how much…

how his brother had started listening to what Sonny was saying. It also showed that he realized Sonny would have his own dreams and aspiration and he could only help point him in the right direction, but could not outright tell him what to do. In the end, Sonny's success comes not due to the instruction from his brother but because of his own desires to make a change in his life. Sonny is able to turn his life around through jazz music and free himself from his troubled…

Connecticut in 1927. Salvador's first guitar was given to him by his dad. His principle musical enthusiasm for the starting, which he had in the same manner as various of his buddies, was playing hillbilly music. Amid the mid 1940s Sal started to end up amped up for jazz music essentially through the recordings of trumpeter Harry James. Sal Salvador first started playing jazz on an acoustic guitar in the style of Dick McDonough, Carl Kress, and George Van Eps. Subsequent to listening to a few…

and personas. Miles Davis and Kanye West, despite having so much between them, contain many parallels when observing what made them into icons. Miles Davis is one of the greatest, if not the greatest jazz musician ever. His album, “Kind of Blue”, is the best selling jazz album of all time, going platinum four times. That is nearly four times the sales of the runner up. The second best,…

It is important to understand how Durkheim connects all the processes and characteristics of religion to how religion is represented by the members of the group as a whole. The idea of self-belonging is the comforting factor which attends to the natural need of man. Through the rituals, the symbols, and the sacred it becomes evident that self-identification is reinsured at all times within a religion. If the self-identification is questioned by a member then they can refer back to one of the…

Hot Five”. Finally in November of 1925 Louis of his hot five make their first recordings. It is here were he created his own style of music called the “Satchmo way”. This style became very popular among the world. On June 28 1928 he records “West End Blue” one of the most famous jazz songs ever recorded. In 1931, sadly Armstrong and Lil Hardin separated, And Louis went back to Chicago to form his own touring band. That same year he went to New Orleans for the first time in more than ten years,…

Hanya Holm’s ideology, as well as her movement quality, is woven throughout Gus Giordano’s career and his approach to movement. Giordano successfully established a technique that, like Holm’s approach, took advantage of other dance techniques, such as ballet and modern, and morphed components of each into a new art form (Sabo, Made in America 44). Not only did Gus use others’ techniques, but he also anticipated the manipulation of his own technique to fit into his students’ personal style.…

On Tuesday April 25th, I attended a Bakersfield Jazz Workshop concert at The Mark. The group’s name that performed that night was J.T. Butler and Friends. The men who performed in the group that night were Steve Eisen, John Calo, J.T. Butler, Paul, Daniel Lopez, Doug Davis, and Rick Lincoln. Steve played the trumpet, John played the saxophone, J.T. Butler played the guitar along with Paul, Daniel Lopez played the drums, Doug Davis played the keyboard, and Rick Lincoln played the bass. The style…

Wednesday, November 16 at 12:00 noon was hosting the Studio Jazz Ensemble in Building K, room K413. One of the numerous buildings of Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus. The Studio Jazz Ensemble consists of 9 members. When there are less than 10 members it is called a Jazz Combo. The young Musicians who performed were Yami Ayala- Vocal, Alex Arias- Bass, George Fernandez- Guitar, Christian Martinez- Drums, Charles English-Drums, Christian Romero- Piano, Andrew Collado- Tenor Sax, Marcel Diaz-…

Dizzy Gillespie was initially influenced and dreamed to be a famous jazz musician like his idol Roy Eldridge. Dizzy was highly influenced by Roy after hearing him play his song on the radio and immediately wanted to become a jazz musician like Roy. Roy Eldridge John Birks Gillespie was born on October 21st 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina. He is the youngest of nine children in his family and began playing Piano at the age of 4. At 10 years old his father passed away and not long after, by…