Swing Time

and His All-Star Quintet may come across as swing after only a single play but, as the ear parses out what it is actually hearing, it begins to sound more like a combination of the best parts of swing and traditional jazz. The quintet is composed of a saxophone, trumpet, piano, double bass, and drums. The trumpet has its own unique sound, which could come from either a mute or the style in which the musician is playing. The bass does more than keep time, which is unusual for that instrument.…

and she easily got jealous/ violence. It only lasted 4 years, spending time apart. Ory’s group with him as cornet player lasted until 1919, with him as a cornet player. Louis Armstrong was hired for a job at SS Sidney. In 1918 Armstrong played “moonlight cruises” with Marable, also still being in Ory’s band. After a while Louis left the cruise, rumors have said, because he got tired out Marable’s rules. He became a full time Tuxedo Brass Band member and felt more confident in his abilities…

community. When he started managing a jazz club, it would’ve been weird and inappropriate for him to play all the time instead of finding other people to play.…

hailed as one of the greatest dancers and featured in seven different newspapers. Blackbirds was a revue starring African-American performers, intended for white audiences. Which was considered very rare at the time because of all the racial and prejudice going on at the time. This is around the time Bill Robinson became known as “Bojangles”. Bojangles was presented as a happy, outgoing, positive performer. Robinson worked regularly as an actor but was best known for his tap-dance routines. He…

Marc Copland is a tremendous jazz pianist with a special ability to create stunning atmospheres with unrugged textures. Having collaborated in the recent years with the virtuous bassist Gary Peacock (Now This and Tangents) and the late guitarist John Abercrombie (39 Steps and Up and Coming), Copland never turned his back to his personal projects, which usually overflow with melodic sensibility and strong rhythmic discernment. The compositions included in Better By Far, his newest work, were…

Electoral College: A Flawed System For generations, a man who holds more potential power than anyone else on this imposing earth has been ordained his power by a small group of 538. This system has been continually tarnished and contorted until it arranged itself to the system of today; a warped empty shell of good intentions gone wrong. It is of my opinion that the system we have today is fallacious and must be removed with great haste. Once an idea on a path paved with good intentions, at some…

To those who do not, no explanation possible.” - Unknown source. From the battlefields across the globe to the football fields in our backyards, color guard has an incredible and colorful history that continues to flourish and grow with changing times. Color guard has very cut and dried origins. However, the point when it began to morph into the color guard we have today does not have a definite date or any single individual credited with starting such a change. Modern day color guard have…

Cuban jazz pianist and composer, David Virelles, has been widely solicited by the attentive musicians on the current scene, who immediately recognized his outstanding creative capabilities. In the recent past, he has played key roles in projects led by trumpeter Tomasz Stanko and saxophonists Henry Threadgill and Chris Potter. As a leader, Virelles always brings heritage into the game, and both Continuum (Pi Recordings, 2012) and Mboko (ECM, 2015) received accolades from the specialized media…

Constantly embarrassed that I didn't have a body like all the other kids my age I automatically would hunch over to hide my insecurities. This followed me a long time, and thankfully over time I have become more confident in who I am. However, I still struggle with it because of that muscle memory situation, because that sensation shoulders rolled over neck extended feeling so natural I am continuously and subconsciously in…

Swing Dance begin in 1920s and 30s in America. In 1930s the words Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, and Swing were all interchanged terms. How the dance was discovered you may ask in the 1920s the black community were dancing to contemporary Jazz music and the discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop which was originated in Harlem. Something that I found really interesting is in 1936 Philip Nutl, was president of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing said that swing would not last. Here it is 2016…