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    Charlie Parker

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    The jazz musician charlie parker was born on August 29,1920 in kansas city. His father was an african american stage entertainer and his more Addie was a maid chair woman of a native heritage. As an only child charlie moved with his parents to kansas city, missouri he was seven years old. At that time the city was lively center for african american music including jazz and the blues and some gospel charlie was always around music as a kid because of of the town he lived in they always played…

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    Parker Chinn Class 708 Now and Always It’s mine. It suits me. Parker. It reminds me of some of the things I like to do, writing music, and acting. This is because I was named after famous jazz musician: Charlie Parker! I was also named after actress: Parker Posey! This makes me feel special because I can look up to these people. But writing music and acting aren’t the only things I like to do! I also like to bake, teach, read, write, and paint! To me, my name means smooth jazz on…

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    Ornette Coleman Synthesis

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    Synthesis Essay: David Ake analysing Ornette Coleman Ornette Coleman was a jazz saxophone player who started his career in the 1950s by defying cultural, and musical standards. David Ake, composer, performer, and musicologist, analysed how Ornette Coleman created dramatic change in the jazz realm by defying the bebop era standards. Ake brings up many points of the standards that Coleman defied, such as: jazz virtuosity and masculinity, jazz performance and sex, and cultural perceptions of…

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    Wren Noyes Irion County Irion County is situated on the Edwards Plateau in southwest central Texas. The middle of Irion is thirty-one degrees and eighteen inches north latitude and one hundred degrees and thirty-five inches west longitude. Irion is locked in between Reagan, Crockett, Schleicher, and Tom Green Counties. The county has two major roadways running through it, U.S. Highway 67 and State Highway 163. U.S. Highway 67 connects the county of Irion to the county seat, which is Mertzon.…

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    How Did Jazz Develop

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    Ever since jazz was born in 1895. Everybody started to have their own taste what jazz is the person that listens to it. Now jazz has evolved into a culture where we can play jazz the way we like it. The real timeline of jazz style development has evolved so much its spanned or stretched for 3 centuries. When it comes to different styles of jazz, people might tend to think which style they would enjoy the most between these categories of jazz. For example, ragtime, classical, hot jazz, Chicago…

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    Vancouver-born, San Francisco-based Michael Zilber, a talent of the saxophone, a dexterous composer, and a respected educator, exhibited his impressive skills side by side with jazz luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Dave Liebman, Miroslav Vitous, and Dave Douglas. Now, leading an elastic quartet whose reliable rhythm section includes Dave Kikoski on piano, James Genus on bass, and Clarence Penn on drums, Zilber prepared “Originals for the Originals”, a beautiful 11-track album…

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    should be influence and innovation, as the lasting effects of an artist on their artform is what they should be judged by. With this set criteria, the only artist that can be considered the "greatest" is Miles Davis, as he pioneered many of different techniques and genres of jazz. The first reason why Miles Davis is the greatest jazz musician is that he changed the basis for improvisation, as he moved from chords to modal scales and tonal centers, which can be seen in his 1958 album Milestones.…

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    awareness around your company helping you to find new customers and increase sales. There are numerous ways to use local online marketing from social media to affiliate advertising. Here at miamedia we focus on two main areas, local search rankings and pay per click advertising - more specifically Google Adwords Campaigns. Local online marketing brings together the creative and technical tools of the web, such as content, design, social media, advertising and sales. Compared to other forms of…

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    Park Slope

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    In the last generation, municipalities have spent over ten billion dollars to build or refurbish stadiums in twenty-seven cities that host National Football League franchises. This, in large part, has contributed to the robust bottom line of America’s most prominent and successful profession sports organization. The NFL is projected to surpass $13 billion in revenues this year, over halfway to Commissioner Roger Goodell’s stated benchmark of $25 billion by the year 2027. Even with the NFL’s…

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    developed Asian nations, the rise in Indians’ purchasing power and strong government reforms. A big part of India’s high growth prospect lies in the word “convergence.” In 2015, India’s Gross National Income per capita was $1,590, ranked 170th out of 217 countries (World Bank, 2016). Because India’s per-capita income is relatively low comparing to others at a comparable level of market development, there is a tremendous opportunity to grow and catch up. Average income in India is at a similar…

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