Free Essays on Jazz

  1. Jazz Rap In Context

    Jazz is considered as more than a music genre, and is characterized by improvisation and syncopation. It pushes music past the confines of organized structure, although it is often arranged. A few very notable jazz musicians are Miles Davis, Chet Baker, and John Coltrane. These men all chose brass instruments...

  2. Jazz

    Jazz History Fletcher Henderson Fletcher Henderson was not just any ordinary jazz musician. He was an intriguing pioneer in the jazz world creating and arranging music that no one in the United States had ever heard before. His sensations spread all across the country and he quickly became one...

  3. American Music and Culture: Jazz Dance

    American Music and Culture: Jazz Dance   Jazz dance, is defined as any dance to jazz accompaniments, composed of a profusion of forms. Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the big bands of the swing era (1930s...

  4. The Jazz Age

    Jazz was born around 1895 in New Orleans. Originally it was a mixture of Blues and marching band music and was played by African-Americans and Creoles on old U.S Army instruments like the cornet or marching drums. It is also marked through the use of improvisation, because most of the former virtuoso...

  5. State Jazz

    at State Jazz Festival. The atmosphere is full of laughter and talking. With a chart such as “Swingin’ Shepard Blues,” a young, aspiring musician can only react to what true musicians thrive upon, and that is the audience. Determination and perseverance are the key assets in playing jazz styled music...

  6. Jazz Age

    The Jazz Age The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the American stock market soared. The focus of the...

  7. Jazz. Ragtime and Dixieland

    Ragtime and Dixieland Over the pass century, jazz has been one of the most influential music in American history. Jazz was a type of music first developed by African Americans around in the beginning of the 20th century. Originating in New Orleans after 1900, jazz blossomed in Storyville, the New Orleans...

  8. Jazz: an Audible Product of Transculturation and the Embodiment of American Culture

    Jazz: An Audible Product of Transculturation and the Embodiment of American Culture In a nation with many different ethnic groups, shared cultural influence through social interaction inherently molds the population as it has in the United States. Transculturation- the fusion of different...

  9. Women in Jazz

    Phillip Baugh Jazz Appreciation April 4, 2013 Women in Jazz When we think about the pioneers of Jazz, names like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and Count Basie tend to come to mind. The Jazz profession was typically dominated by male musicians. In fact, mix gender bands suffered...

  10. Jazz Concert summary

    Due: 9/30/13 Jazz Concert Review The first question I asked myself at the beginning of the quarter was how much do I actually know about jazz? I have always characterized jazz music as a rhythmic and instrumental form of music. My impression on the basis of jazz has always been portrayed...

  11. Market Research On Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc - Product Pipeline Review - 2014

    Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc - Product Pipeline Review - 2014 Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc - Product Pipeline Review - 2014 Summary Global Markets Directs, Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc - Product Pipeline Review - 2014, provides an overview of the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plcs pharmaceutical research and development...

  12. The Mysteries and Intricacies of Jazz

    The Mysteries and Intricacies of Jazz Jazz, to Barry Ulanov “obsesses the player or singer and haunts his or her audience” (245). The haunting nature though, is the realization that although a piece may not have been liked, it is still a great piece of music. Jazz paints against the wooden grain of...

  13. Bread Givers and the Jazz Singer

    There are many similarities between the novel “Bread Givers” and the movie The Jazz Singer.  While Anzia Yezierska’s story tells of a young girl who is determined to escape her Old World father and run her own life, The Jazz Singer tells the story of a young boy trying to do much the same thing. Sarah...

  14. How African-American Culture Conceived Jazz

    How African-American Culture Conceived Jazz Near the beginning of the twentieth century, Jazz was a new style of music being invented by African-American musicians who lived in New Orleans, Louisiana. The city of New Orleans during the beginning of the twentieth century was loaded with individuals...

  15. Jazz Concert

    On December 11th 2006 I attended the Jazz Improvisation Class and Jazz Band concert. This concert was held at Southwestern Illinois College in Belleville Illinois. The SWIC jazz band performed many different performances. The jazz band members include Dennis Aulenbacher and Allyson Pope...

  16. Let Them Call It Jazz Essay

    “LET THEM CALL IT JAZZ” In our modern world, racism continues to affect our society in many negative ways. Authors have many influential techniques at their disposal to alter how people may perceive a certain issue. In this short story, ‘Let Them Call It Jazz’, Jean Rhys has used specific characterisation...

  17. Let them call it Jazz

    The story 'Let Them Call It Jazz' is written by Jean Rhys and it talks about Selina, a dark skinned, young woman who has no money, no home and no idea of what to do next in her life. She came to England with the intent of becoming a seamstress at a shop in London, but has had no luck getting hired....

  18. Jazz Report

    having some sort of a competition. It also looked like it too because of the way their bodies moved with the music. Parts of this song reminded me of the jazz piece in Fantasia 2000, I guess it was just the tone and quality that they were playing with. The largetto piece made me sway to the beat, along with...

  19. Harpur Jazz Ensemble Mid-Day Concert

    HARPUR JAZZ ENSEMBLE MID-DAY CONCERT featuring Yamaha clinician Walter White,Trumpet The concert was took place at the Osterhout Concert Theater which is on...

  20. Short Story - Jazz Age

    crushing it in the tray, she slipped into her highest heels (2 inches, can you believe it? The other girls would surely be jealous) and opened the door. Jazz music filled the hall and her room and her mind as she walked forward towards the back stage and stepped up up up the stairs and took her pose and waited...

  21. Swing Era

    novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald had it right when he called the 1920s the Jazz Age, then the 1930s through the mid-1940s could even more aptly be termed the Swing Era. That’s because during that time the swing pulse and impulse transformed jazz and through it, much of American vernacular music. Swing music...

  22. Stuff

    The Jazz Dance Jazz dance has become a very popular style of dance. However, just what sets jazz dance apart from the other styles of dance? Some would say that it is the "syncopation" element of jazz dance. How there are quick changes often. It is not boring and predictable. Others would say it...

  23. America's Classical Music?

    classical music, jazz has served as a model for other kinds of music; its influence is international in scope, (Taylor, 328).” It is undoubtedly true that throughout the 20th century, jazz has played a prominent role in American culture, and has also spread through many parts of the world. Jazz began as an...

  24. Parker and Davis

    influenced the music of their time changing the classic jazz structure into bebop. Charlie Parker and Miles Davis who were (and still are), inarguably, two of the greatest performers, composers, and innovators that the American jazz world has ever experienced. Charlie Parker was considered the...

  25. Genia Contreras

    foundational influence on jazz. Armstrong also had a great voice just like his trumpet, mostly jazz is always head in New Orleans by now it's heard in most bar's worldwide if you go to this bar thats called “Hole In The Wall” here in San Antonio they play nothing but jazz and blues. Jazz includes at least eight...

  26. Wor the Bermuda Community

    Bermuda Jazz 190 Church Street, Hamilton, HM 12, Bermuda September 12, 2010 Ms. Diane Payne 24 Charing Road Hamilton, HM 12 Bermuda Dear Ms. Payne: When the Bermuda community responded to local efforts to introduce two weeks of merriment by launching Bermuda Jazz, the island’s...

  27. Travel Tourism

    from Limerick to Cork to celebrate the Guinness Jazz Festival. The Festival is going to be held on the weekend 22nd -25th of October in the River Lee Hotel. What is a Guinness Jazz Festival? That is the biggest and most successful cultural Ireland`s Jazz event which attracts musicians and visitors from...

  28. Music Terms

    comedy skits/dances/musicals; Even continued after slaves freed in 1860’s (African Americans wore blackface after the Civil War) Louis Armstrong: Jazz and Scat singer; “Greatest” trumpet player of his time; Came from New Orleans; Performance style rooted in the 20’s; In 1964, at age 63, Armstrong became...

  29. Randano's "Hot Fantasies" -- Black Rhythm

    Fantasies: American Modernism and the Idea of Black Rhythm” describes the creation of Jazz as a controversial form of music due to the association of the African Americans with the hot rhythm of jazz. As the emergence of jazz proliferated through the 1920s, many white Americans disregarded this new and uprising...

  30. The Musica Viva

    and drums. Also, the majority of the music was jazz, which I found very southing considering the fact that I had never listen to this type of genre live. In addition, the audience had consisted of mostly young adults that had also seemed to enjoy jazz. Furthermore, the first two movements, Sambalamento...

  31. Bad Narrative

    listening to hours of Miles Davis, The Brubeck Brothers, John Coltrane, and well everybody jazz cat that was known to man! I was only 12 years old and didn’t know anything about music but something about jazz intrigue me. Even though I was young it felt like I was connected to the music as if they were...

  32. Langston Hughes

    writing he made many contributions to following generations by writing about African American issues in creative ways including the use of blues and jazz. Langston Hughes captured the scene of Harlem life in the early 20th century significantly influencing American Literature. He once explained that...

  33. It Is Not Okay

    Skinner Introduction to Music (MUSC 1010) 13 October 2014 Music Essay I attended the Jazz Ensembles performance on October 8. Going into it, I wasn’t too excited because I’ve never been a huge fan of jazz music. Coming out of the concert, however, I held a greater appreciation for this genre of...

  34. Lalala

    and blames it on the music industry. After they calm down from the fight, Sonny asks the narrator to attend one of his shows. Once they arrive at the jazz club Sonny is automatically recognized by everyone. The narrator realizes that he has stepped into Sonny’s world. He is mesmerized by his brother’s...

  35. Art Paper

    “Passages” by Kenny G Kenneth Bruce Gorelick, better known by Kenny G, is an American adult contemporary and smooth jazz saxophonist. His fourth album, Duotones, brought him breakthrough success in 1986. A phenomenally successful instrumentalist whose recordings make the pop charts, Gorlick...

  36. The Party at Gatsby's House

    after the bloody World War I. It's self-important title is Fitzgerald's cynical comment on how jazz tried to present itself as a serious rival to classical music during the '20s. When the jazz of the history was over girls at the party, they were putting hands on men’s shoulders in puppyish. ...

  37. The Roaring 20's

    and cars. Many of the styles we have today reflect and were influenced by the twenties. Fashion had a flashy edge, music was all about the sound of jazz, movies were silent for the most part, and cars were as basic as they get. Americans were drawn to these four material things because it was all so...

  38. Jazzy Soul Artist with Jeff Robinson

    Jazzy Soul Artist with Jeff Robinson Last Friday I had the opportunity of visiting “Pips On La Brea”. Pips is most known for its Jazz performers and great Italian Food, it’s in a pretty nice neighborhood and the staff was so kind that I would recommend it to almost all of my friends. When...

  39. Simplistic Version of the Evolution of African American Music

    known as Jazz. Initially considered a passing fad when first recorded in 1917 (Batchelor2) Jazz originally incorporated in some form each of the previous genres of African American music while keeping a unique sound of its own. Most similar to ragtime because of its use of “ragged” rhythms, Jazz combines...

  40. Dancing Styles

    but the most popular are jazz, hip hop, tap dancing, and modern dance. The dance can be classified according to the types of styles. One style of dancing is jazz. This style of dance allows the dancers to develop their own personality and make each step unique and fun. Jazz involves moving through positions...

  41. Producing Grand Piano

    Piano The grand piano is the most acoustically complex instrument to record, with its great dynamic range and wide musical range. From classical, jazz to pop music it lends itself very well to recording. There are numerous miking and processing techniques you may utilize depending on the desired effect...

  42. Dance Essay

    cooling down is important in dance. I’ve learned how to do 5 jazz steps and learned how to do them. For example a ball change is a very fast transfer of weight from one foot to the other foot. Also I learned how to do the jazz square. The jazz square is a 4 step movement in a pattern of a square. I learned...

  43. The Jones Brothers

    of Fats Waller, who was on Hank’s radio every morning before school. From classical, to bebop to ragtime, Hank was always open minded when it came to jazz styles. In fact, his playing was flexible enough to mold in to many different genres. This trait earned him much success in his later career. When...

  44. Essay

    evilness can be very seductive. With a similar task to those of the prophets and preachers, the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, also known as the poet of the Jazz Age, criticizes the American society in a different approach. By stressing and emphasizing on the society's worst features, the faults of its members...

  45. Paris and New York in the Twentieth Century

    of dance halls and jazz music. Jazz was a new form of art and it made sense that it would come into its own in the setting of Paris. Jazz was associated with modernity and was accepted skeptically at first by Parisians, wary of too much influence on their culture from abroad. But jazz had a great energy...

  46. harlem renaissance

    of the most well-known writers of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the African American artistic movement in the 1920’s.  Langston Hughes used jazz and black folk rhythms in many of his poems, which was growing in popularity around that time. He did not always adhere to classical forms of poetry...

  47. Music

    individual choices of a performer, or an aspect of music that is not clear, and therefore has a "standard" interpretation. In some musical genres, such as jazz and blues, even more freedom is given to the performer to engage in improvisation on a basic melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic framework. The greatest...

  48. Baseball in the 20's

    outfits were trying to incorporate the time period of the 1920’s, which opened with an explosion of color and the wailing sounds and fast rhythms of jazz and energetic dancing. To keep up baseball teams worse wool caps, wool jerseys with a long sleeve shirt beneath it typically, wool and very wide bottoms...

  49. Bird

    Location: Chamisa Apartments I thought the movie was very good for the reason that it gave me anin depth look into one of the best saxophone players of the jazz era. The movie stayed pretty true to his lifeand follow as he played with a lot of the greats like Dizzie Gillespie, Thelonious Monk. The movie had...

  50. Chicago Review

    unique because it shows a problem but does not explore the issue. Chicago is a film that’s main content is jazz. Set in the 1920's when gangsters were considered glamorous heroes and jazz, alcohol, tobacco and drugs were popular. It starts with a lady named Roxie Hart played by Reneé Zellweger, she...

  51. Over the counter drugs

    Back to Top A Night in Freeport’s Jazz Café Student jazz musicians from John W. Dodd Middle School and Freeport High School combined to display their developing musical talent at Freeport Public Schools fifth annual Night of Jazz in the Freeport High School cafeteria on April 29. ...

  52. Santana

    with fellow street musicians bassist David Brown and keyboard player Gregg Rolie. With their highly original blend of Latin-infused rock, jazz, blues, salsa, and African rhythms, the band which quickly became known simply as Santana gained an immediate following on the San Francisco club...

  53. english

    theme within the ‘invisible man’ is that of the more obvious theme of invisibility. Ellison explores through the use of music such as in the form of jazz the moments or experiences where invisibility takes control. Such breaks in visibility signify a chance for the protagonist to escape and break the...

  54. Aaron Copland

    musicians were playing a lively form of music known as jazz. Even though jazz was invented in America, it had become very popular in Europe. Aaron was interested in writing American sounding music and he decided that it would be interesting to add some jazz sounds to the modern classical music he was starting...

  55. Beronging

    Victorian women. The Great Gatsby: Fear of Death • 110 motor vehicle crashes a day. • WWI left a mark on society (death rates) • Spanish influenza • Jazz age hysteria towards death reflected through Gatsby’s pre-occupation with time. • Tony Tanner writes, “Gatsby’s concern with time, its arrestability...

  56. Nice

    and Louis Armstrong rose, introducing the US to jazz music. Jazz was widely loved by all of the country, and became a huge part of the 1920s; orchestras even started incorporating jazz scales and techniques into their performances! The 1920s was even known as the Jazz Era! The Harlem Renaissance also opened...

  57. IWT task 1

    called jazz, blues and blues gospel. This music had an upbeat tempo made for entertainment. The Harlem Renaissance era is a deviation from the Renaissance era. The classical music derived from the Renaissance era was altered during the Harlem Renaissance era with ad libs and swing beats. Jazz was created...

  58. Heremenow

    1940’s Dancing "Swing dance" is most commonly known as a group of dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s-1950s, although the earliest of these dances predate "swing era" music. Los Angeles had its own form of what they called "Swing dance" which came from Charleston,...

  59. History of the Trumpet

    Other composers to write music for the trumpet include Bach, Mozart and Duke Ellington. Today the trumpet is used in all forms of music including; jazz, blues, classical and pop. It is a great solo instrument. Many famous musicians started out playing the trumpet as a hobby and continued to become...

  60. Understanding Music

    essentially a style of syncopated piano-playing that reached its peak about 1910. Ragtime music provided the stimulus for the spontaneous development of jazz, a specialized style in music which by the year 1920 had become a dominating force in popular music, and New Orleans, one of the first cities to foster...