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Louis Armstrong’s influence in early JazzLouis Armstrong is often referred to as the “Father of Jazz” (Yanow, 2016) Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana in an impoverished neighborhood that was nicknamed the “battlefield” because the neighborhood was so poor (Yanow, 2016). When Louis was young, he shot a gun at his father’s new year’s eve party and where he was arrested. He was sent to a group home for boys called the “Colored Waif’s home for boys”, he received

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OK Jazz was a formidable group ranging from six to over 20 musicians produced a who’s who of African musicians and vocalists. Songs start slow with gentle vocal harmonies, incrementally building speed and adding layers instruments into funky sebenes leavened

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Between 1914 and 1923 the great migration, the rise of new jobs in cabarets and threatens, and the emergence of the phonograph as a home entertainment medium, all helped to transform the black music that was now calling itself jazz. That transformation varied in the three jam or black musical centers. New Orleans lost local musicians to the national musical world. The sound of the crescent City was carried too much of the country and was changed in the process, while musical opportunities within

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Miles Davis III was born May 26, 1926 and he died September 28, 1991. He was an American jazz trumpeter, band leader, and composer. He is one of the most influential and inspiring figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. With his ever changing directions in music, Miles Davis was at the forefront of a number of major stylistic developments in jazz over his five decade career.Born and raised in Illinois, Davis began performing in 1940’s New York, in the early 1950’s, he recorded some

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of the influential shapers of Jazz music. Armstrong had an ability to master both the instrumental and vocal aspects of older Jazz, and hence revolutionized contemporary jazz. Armstrong’s ability changed his position in the band. He quickly became the centerpiece of a performance, while other performers became more of a background due to his incomparable talent in both vocals and the cornet. This helped emphasize his unique style of performance of contemporary jazz. Armstrong’s style was considered

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Jazz is a genre that originated from black communities in America as they spoke about their experiences through songs during slavery and civil war in the late 19th century and early 20th century. New Orleans and particularly Storyville provided a platform, due to loose adherence to the Jim Crow laws on segregation, for the African American musicians and the European American musicians to create, together, the beautiful genre we now know as jazz. Jazz, therefore, was a cultural response to the political

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cultural movement specifically in creative arts such as music and literature. Jazz represented the flavor and zest of African American culture in the 1920s-1940s. Billie Holiday had a great impact on the Harlem Renaissance because she was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She performed with other great jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Jo Jones, and Henry Allen. Her career as a jazz singer was an incredible and thriving one, however, it was shortened because

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In the history of jazz there have many dozens of sad stories culminating into suicide and death. One of those tragic histories is the one of Bill Evans. He was one of the most influential figures of post-bop jazz piano. He was known for his highly nuanced touch and the clarity in which feelings were transmitted to his listeners through his music. He also reformed the chord voicing system pianists used. He influenced many a pianist who became part of the “Bill Evans style” or “Evans inspired” pianists

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person to affect a lot of Jazz musicians. Lois Armstrong established the importance of solo jazz appeared in Chicago in 1922. Whereas Bix Beiderbecke was the first white jazz master and created the Chicago white Jazz. Armstrong had showmanship and performed with virtuosity, Beiderbecke emphasized melody during the improvisation. The new piano jazz style boogie-woogie was appeared between the black jazz of Chicago. Meanwhile, the New York jazz big band inspired by New Orleans jazz was prevalent. The development

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writing of Jazz, Morrison takes on new tasks and new risks. Jazz, for example, doesn’t fit the classic novel format in terms of design, sentence structure, or narration. Just like the music this novel is named after, the work is improvisational.”-www.enotes.com/jazz/“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize- winning Beloved…. Morrison conjures up hand of slavery on Harlem’s jazz generation. The more you listen, the more you crave to hear.”-GlamourToni Morrison’s Jazz is an

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