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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…

class instruments, like piano and strings (Boundless). With this combination the bands were able to appeal to a wider range of people and begin to transcend the cultural prejudice the dominated american society of the times. Within jazz bands the musicians worked to develop their own personal sound and often improvise solos on the spot, making every performance of a song different from the next while keeping the often syncopated chorus lines the same (What Is Jazz). These predominantly black…

The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast two jazz styles. Both styles will be described and the musicians that played these styles. The two styles I chose to discuss are bebop jazz and hard bop jazz. Bebop jazz was created in the early 1940’s and consisted of a smaller ensemble of musicians than the previous big bands of the swing era. The typical instruments used were the saxophone, piano, drums, trumpet, and bass. The style was characterized by complex chord progressions and…

the sympathetic nervous system, which produces fear in response to any perceived danger, be it a sabre-toothed tiger or a Lincoln Center audience,” says Tindall, an oboist, performer, and journalist. Stage fright is a widespread issue that many musicians face. It can both physically and mentally paralyze you, affecting the quality of each performance you give. There is no one specific cause to stage fright — some say it happens from insecurity and under-preparation, while others believe it has…

In Plato's Republic transcribed by Plato, Socrates argues with Thrasymachus on the matter, is being just good and wise? Socrates asks Thrasymachus a question that eventually makes Thrasymachus rethink his position. Socrates makes the argument that justice is wise and good and injustice is ignorance and bad; however, Thrasymachus thinks alternatively in a sense that he defends injustice as being better of the two. Through Socrates’ method of elenchus, Socrates comes to the conclusion “the just…

but when deciding on who is the "greatest" of jazz musicians, the most important criteria when deciding 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…

the formation of intervals and triads that derives from it, and their inputs. The major scale and its seven modes-the Ionic, Doric, Phrygian, Lydian , Mixolydian, wind and locrio- are also part of the basic theory must completely dominate a jazz musician, like the circle of fifths. Among the most common chord progressions in jazz include:  II-VI Progression, among the most common chord progressions features jazz.  The VV progression, that is, a…

entailed being labelled, excluded from the rest of society as they are proscribed by law as criminal if engaged in by adults of delinquent if engaged in by youth this need not be the case. A group that is considered to be deviant would be the dance musicians culture and their way of life that is seen as bizarre and unconventional for society. People who engage in deviant activities have the opportunity to interact with one another, dependent for social contact and to validate their beliefs and…

Musicians have been found to have better timing on repetitive tapping tasks when compared to non-musicians (Franěk, Mates, Radil, Beck, & Pöppel, 1991). Another study found that the amount of music training influenced performance outcomes on synchronization tasks (Repp, 2010) Professional musicians outperformed both novice musicians and non-musicians, while novice musicians performed better than non-musicians on various synchronization tasks (Repp, 2010). Overall, musicians were found…

a bass, drums, a guitar, 4 trombones, 4 trumpets, 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, and one baritone saxophone. This makes a total of 17 musicians plus one for Professor Paul McKee who was the conductor. The student ensemble was very large and was arrange/modeled after a…