Billie Holiday is one of the greatest jazz singers of her time. Although her legacy shines bright‚ her life was often plagued by the adversity of drugs‚ men‚ and alcohol. Critics do not give enough credit to the struggle of Billie Holiday‚ whose highs and lows were commonly expressed through her strong vocals and combination of blues‚ jazz‚ and swing. She‚ unlike any other artist‚ came from nothing in Baltimore and found different avenues to rise through jazz history. Similar to her immediate family
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the city when we discovered the famed jazz club‚ Birdland‚ just a few blocks from our hotel. We spoke to our Music Director‚ and he arranged a visit to the club the following night. Walking into that small dimly lit club seemed to transport us to a place I had only seen in movies. An air of admiration filled the club as those incredibly talented jazz artists shared their craft in an improvisational way. This experience served to intensify my love of jazz and music as a
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Description: In the beginning of the concert before the band started to play‚ two musicians appeared on stage. They started to tune and warm up their instruments; a woman playing an oboe and a man playing a saxophone. When the concert was about to start the rest of the band came on stage and everyone took their places. The members of the Navy Band were dressed with their white uniforms. Some members wore the officer dress uniform which consisted of white clothes and turtle neck with a white cover
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that formed the repertoire of the original Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra. In the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra band folders‚ Big Dipper is to this day #4 in the book. This new edition is taken directly from the original ink parts that were on the stands at the band’s debut performance in February 1966‚ now housed in the Thad Jones Archive at William Paterson University‚ where Thad served as Founding Director of Jazz Studies. These original seven charts were commissioned by Count Basie for an entire album
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several new music genres emerged. One of them was Chinese popular music‚ which started in Shanghai in the 1920s. It was based on big band Western jazz style‚ which was a popular style of music in Shanghai at that time. Its founder‚ Li Jinhui‚ created an early form of Chinese pop music called shidaiqu‚ which is a mixture of Chinese folk music and European jazz music. This style
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volumes. 1920’s – 1940’s In the mid-1920’s‚ jazz was being played in dance halls‚ roadhouses‚ and radios all over the country. Radios and phonograph records were bringing jazz to locations so remote that no band could reach them. And the music itself was beginning to change. The popular dance music of the time was not jazz‚ but there were early forms taking shape in the evolving blues-ragtime experimental area that would soon turn into jazz. Popular Tin Pan Alley composers like Irving Berlin
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artists and writers influence people through jazz music‚ fine art‚ and literature. Many jobs were available especially in the North‚ which lead a huge migration of African Americans to urban areas of the north where they were more tolerated. Literature and art flourished during these times. There were many great musicians‚ for example‚ Louis Armstrong‚ an American jazz trumpeter and a singer from New Orleans. Armstrong was basically the foundation to jazz music and was greatly skilled at scat singing
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[pic] MATRICULATION COLLEGE OF NEGERI SEMBILAN ENGLISH WB023 SESSION 2010/2011 ‘THE INFLUENCE OF MUSIC ON TEENAGERS’ MEMBERS OF RESEARCH TEAM : MUHAMMAD AFIQ BIN MD DAIM MS1012505095 IDA FARHANA BINTI ROSLAN MS1012504521 SITI NORHANNAN ASHIKIN BINTI A MUIN MS1012506771 SITI NADIRAH BINTI OTHMAN MS1012506751 PRACTICUM GROUP : F2P7 LECTURER : MADAM CHEAH YIT YING SUBMISSION DATE : 11TH January 2011 Acknowledgement
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Colored Waif’s Home for Boys. His nicknames all his friends and fans gave him was “Pops”‚ “Satchmo”‚ and “Ambassador Satch. In 1981‚ he replaced Oliver in Kid Ory’s band‚ which was the most popular in New Orleans. In his early life‚ he joined Creole Jazz Band on second cornet in Chicago. In Chicago‚ he was allowed to make his own band and called it‚ “Armstrong
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Module 1 Activity 1 Part A. #1-D Survey. Ahmed is asking many people a series of questions to gather information on their thoughts on the videos. Therefore it is a survey. #2-C Laboratory Observation. Nadine is observing her test subjects in an unnatural environment. She is in a laboratory and is observing her test subjects. #3- Survey. Ada is asking a number of questions to college student to gather information about their alcohol consumption. #4- Psychological Tests. The document
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