Minton's Playhouse

Nate Parker Nate Parker is an American actor in movies and a director for his movies. He also produces movies as well as write them. Some movies that he starred in were Beyond the Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, The Great Debaters, Arbitrage, Non-Stop, Felon and Pride. He was born on November 18, 1979 and is 37 years old. He was born in Norfolk Virginia. Parker wasn’t always an actor, in his earlier days he was a wrestler. He wrestled at Great Bridge High School and also went there for school/ studying. Nate Parker also studied at the University of Oklahoma as well as wrestle there too. He is now married to Sarah DiSanto. In 1999, Nate and his friend Jean Celestin, who participated with Birth of a Nation, were accused by a classmate at Penn State University around 18 years old, for sexual abuse. Nate Parker was then charged, released, and went to court, where as Celestin was convicted for her crime but then cleared. News later suggested that the person that accused them had committed suicide in 2012. On August 19, 1999, the person that accused them, known as Jane Doe in court documents, declares that she spent time in her dorm. The two had met up with each other in the early summer from a mutual friend before coming onto the Pennsylvania State University campus. While confirming, the so-called victim said that the friend had told her that Nate was “dog” but she did like him. Nate Parker’s accuser said that she requested him to come over so that…

The 1940’s were a decade of great change in America. In 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor; the first ever attack on U.S. soil, in 1944 American troops landed in Nazi-occupied Europe, and in 1945 the microwave oven was introduced to America. There was another great change taking place, but in the world of jazz music -- a new sound was developing that would alter the genre forever, pioneered by such people as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk. As 1940 was coming to a close, a…

actually rejected bop. The defining features of Bebop songs include a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key. It requires more instrumental proficiency from the musician than from other styles. Bebop includes improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales. Later in history Bebop would become synonymous with modern jazz. Most modern musicians playing today have elements of the bop style. As opposed to the "get up…

Thelonious Sphere Monk was born on October 10, 1917 at Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Thelonious Monk was a famous jazz musician and composer that fell in love with music at a very young age. Before Thelonious Monk was known as a genius, he was judged by many observers for a decade, yet while receiving all the judgment he never changed his music once. Monk never gave up on himself and he loved his music so much, that's why he saw no need to modify his style. Thelonious Monk was around five…

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in South Carolina in 1917 and died in 1993. He was a jazz trumpet player, bandleader and composer. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. He was one of the pioneers in bebop and had performed in Minton’s Playhouse and Monroe’s Uptown House. He worked with Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed in New York and Los Angeles. After the Los Angeles performance in December 1945, Gillespie returned to New York and Parker…

adjacent from the entrance and the objects in cases are one the sides. This format allows visitors a clear site of the large objects and a more personal experience with the objects in the showcases. Furthermore, visitors can engage even more with the performers in the side room: Neighborhood Record Room. The Neighborhood Record Room allows visitors to ruminate and reminisce with the music from the African-American culture, by selecting music from a large touch table placed in the center of the…

Home in 1940. Nat King Cole and his group recorded Gone with the Draft and happening around the world Italy declared war on Britain and France (“Dyas”). ASCAP declared they were going to triple the 5% advertising fee on radio stations they set in 1932 (“Schneider”). ASCAP has raised the advertising fee by 5% and by 1941 all the radio stations boycotted ASCAP. Boycotting ASCAP music led to $1.5 billion set aside for new music. This is how mixed genres came about and formed sub-genres like…