Swing

By the 1940s, most of the jazz music scene was Swing Jazz, it was classically structured harmonies, commercialized big bands and it had limited room for improvisation; most of the bands at the time were limited in uniqueness. Such a borderline bland music scene proved fertile ground for Bebop, but what started as a musical form unknown, or at least not meant to be known, by the public, played in afterhours of nightclubs, was revolutionized by the alto-sax player, Charlie Parker. Despite his…

The song “Flamenco Sketches” by the Miles Davis Sextet has the cool jazz sound with the modal jazz style. The song has a light and soft sound with simple melodic improvisations. A traditional rhythm section maintains a steady rhythm throughout the song, but this rhythm section uses countermelodies to add colorations during the improvisations. The pianist is constantly playing a soft melody underneath the improvisations and sometimes mirroring the melody played by the improviser. The bassist…

Numerous stories of swing musicians are dominated by ethnic, racial, and gendered situations; stories that played an important role in the development of swing. Examples include Artie Shaw’s childhood years on the Lower East Side of New York City where he spent time with migrant children from Eastern Europe and Trummy Young’s youth in the Yamacraw section in Savannah, Georgia where the community that he grew up in was dominated by blacks, Italians, and Chinese. As a decisive player in the…

Swing Kids is an American musical drama that was released March 5th, 1993. This Hollywood Pictures film was written by Jonathan Marc Feldman and directed by Thomas Carter, with stars such as Robert Sean Leonard, Christian Bale, and Frank Whaley. Swing Kids was produced by Mark Gordon and John Bard Manulis, and it was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. This movie runs for approximately 112 minutes and it’s music is by James Horner, it’s soundtrack includes mostly swing music with…

Swing kids is a fictional story based movie directed by Thomas Carter in 1993. This movie captured in actual events that took place in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. This movies shows the lifestyle, culture, dance, food and clothes that were used in 1930s. In this movie Thomas, Peter, and Arvid is cast as main character who were supported by others. The movie shows the ongoing tension between swing kids and the Hitler jugend who try to suppressed the young rebellion and force them to join Nazi…

their favored political party. During general elections, presidential candidates focus most of their attention on the swing states, including Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Michigan versus the non-swing or non-competitive states, such as New Jersey. (Brown, 2016). The list of swing States can change over time, and in any given election. Swing states are important to a general election because they’re not consistently tied to a political party and are…

Golf swing training aids are tools designed to help you improve your golf swing. Improving your swing and overall golf game is a delicate art that many people unfortunately do incorrectly and end up wasting a lot of time and effort. Therefore, it is important to spend time to ensure you are training correctly. Remember, practice makes permanent not perfect so if you are not training correctly and ingraining incorrect technique into your muscle memory, the result will be poor performance and…

Jazz began in the late 18th century in African-American communities in New Orleans. Soon these vocal tunes made by African-Americans turned into piano songs, and soon enough evolved into the Jazz we know and love today. In modern Jazz, there are pieces that are considered “Jazz Standards”, one major contributor to these standards is the trombone player and Big Band Jazz composer, Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller lived a short yet interesting life, he differed from his competitors and left a dazzling…

The masterful, classic composition “Potato Head Blues” by legendary musician Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven band is widely regarded today as one of Armstrong’s finest recordings. This song is a quick-paced jazz melody with the trumpet along with the piano providing what I believe is to be a 4 beat per measure rhythm. “Potato Head Blues” also sounds different from that of Joplin Rags since I counted 2 beats per measure. The song also does not seem to have much variation with a constant…

Strengths and Weakness in School Ties and Swing Kids By Leonardo Garcia Around the 1930’s-1950’s there was a large movement of anti semitism in Germany and the United States. In these two films they present two different sides of a story one is about being the only jewish teen in a catholic high school in Michigan where anti semitism is a fairly common occurrence, While the other story is a movement against the nazi socialist party about their censorship of western culture, music, fashion,…