Rhythm and blues

Ragtime and blues are the foundations of jazz. Both were initially very popular among African Americans as jazz came from an African background. The blues contain the musical structure of jazz with the 12 bar pattern, while ragtime supplies the unique syncopations and improvisations. The early musicians of blues and ragtime would eventually provide the transition necessary to move into jazz.…

John Hartman on percussion, and Dave Shogren. They formed and played in Southern California, and eventually became The Doobie Brothers. They were named after a slang term for marijuana, and their genes included soft rock, pop music, blue-eyed soul, jazz, and rhythm & blues. Their band has had many various members over the years, but the members that played on Toulouse Street were Tom Johnston (guitar and vocals), Patrick Simmons (guitar, keyboard, and vocals), Tiran Porter (bass and vocals),…

brings out the blue note melody that we are more accustomed to. As the two performers gets to know each other playing style better, the interconnection between their improvisations has improved to a greater degree in this new jam. The form of the music tends to be tonal atonal and tonal again. The music starts in a very tonal way. Kuhn now plays Bb clarinet, and plays a typical blues melody. There were lots of blue notes and sliding into one note to each other, similar to how the blues singer…

his thoughts, Hughes felt a deep sense of passion to poetically write of the struggles faced by many impoverished African Americans. During the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes used poetry to convey the African American cultural through a rhythm and blues style about dreams, suffering, the soul, and America. Langston Hughes expresses his concerns of deferred dreams, which were lost during a depressive time in a short masterpiece called “Harlem”. This poem was published in 1951 when blacks…

strongly influenced by two specific genres known as the Blues and Ragtime. Before formally taking on the name blues, the blues originated within the slave communities of the south as spritual songs and narrative ballads. As African and European musical cultures began to merge, the blues became a unique blend of both African and European musical traditions that did not exist anywhere else before its emergence in the United States. Eventually the blues…

Gospel, Spirituals, Blues, and Rap: African American Music Introduction In the African American culture, we have several different genres of music. Each genre Has a special place in the history of the African American culture. Slaves used Spirituals as a way of communication later branched off into different genres. Negro Spirituals In the olden days, Slaves lived very difficult lives. They weren't entitled to many things, but they were given the rights to go to church and play music.…

and melody of the jazz music. The performance played 7 pieces: “Beautiful Love” by Victor Young, “Alice and Wonderland” by Sammy Fain, “Truth and Beauty” by Sam Yahel, “Misty” by Erroll Garner, “I’ll Close My Eyes” by Blue Mitchell, “Autumn Leaves” by Joseph Kasma, and “Bessie’s Blues” by John Coltrane. All of these pieces were in the jazz music genre. This performance consisted of 4 instruments: a piano,…

notes, interaction with audience, and especially improvisation skills. Jazz improvisation is one of most important aspects of jazz. It is incredible to hear a musician composing on the spot. Creating quality self-made melodies based off a rolling rhythm section is truly brilliant. Since my days of high school jazz band are over, I arrived at the Performing Arts Center eager to hear the level of improvisation college students are playing at. Each member of the Monday combo and Tuesday…

Description There are various shades of blue and black, splashes of yellows, a textured cypress tree, yellow stars, a crescent moon glazed in its own yellow light, a blue mountain range, fields of blue, a town, buildings was a dash of orange in the windows, a church with a large steeple, vertical and horizontal lines, black lines in the tree, small trees in the town with curly tops, reflections of the yellow moonlight on the tops of the buildings and the small trees. Analysis There are five…

When comparing the blues, the Chicago and Delta blues are a great way to show the progression of the blues style. You can almost say that the blues were born in the Delta, and even trace many of the styles seen in the Chicago blues to that seen in the Delta. In the Delta, blues were sung for the relieve of people struggle, used as venting. It was anything and everything that you could find to create a rhythm and tune. The structure resembled that of church call and response. Where you could have…