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Influential Jazz Musician Miles Davis

Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...

Effects of the US Progressive Era

include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...

Jazz Age Lifestyle in Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...

Literature about the Blues and Jazz

where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...

Hypothetical Review of a Jazz Concert

This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

Jazz History, African Influences

This research paper offers a discussion of literature pertaining to the early history of jazz and the African influences that play...

Yavapai College, A Jazz Performance

This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

Jazz Music and its History

comes in many variants: field hollers, levee camp hollers, prison work songs, street cries, and the like" (Gioia, 2005). It is rea...

Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Herbie Hancock

years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...

Overview of Jazz and Its Legendary Artists

is often "misunderstood, under-appreciated and underestimated. If jazz is the underdog, avant-garde jazz is beneath the underdog"...

A Review of The Jazz Singer

This five paper research paper explores The Jazz Singer. The central theme is delineated and an overview is provided. Five sourc...

Urban Artistry of Jazz Musician Miles Davis

his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday and the Jazz Age

In two pages this paper examines how the 1920s' Jazz Age was portrayed in this 1931 text. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

The Bear Comes Home by Rafi Zabor and Jazz

our waitressing job, we are humiliated. Forced to perform in a way that does not in any way reflect who we are inside, we have bec...

Jazz by Toni Morrison and Reflections of the Harlem Renaissance

In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...

Chip Deffaa's 'Traditionalists and Revivalists in Jazz'

This paper consists of 12 pages and chronicles those significant performers whos contributions are often overlooked in other books...

The Works of Toni Morrison

This 7 page paper discusses the life and works of Toni Morrison, concentrating on Jazz, Sula and The Bluest Eye. There are 7 sourc...

Jazz Legend Billie Holiday

In a paper consisting of ten pages the influence of the legendary jazz performer Billie Holiday in terms of music and society are ...

Performance of Jazz Dance

In five pages this research paper focuses upon 3 performances delivered by the famous team the Nicholas Brothers in this considera...

Louis Armstrong, An American Musical Genius

This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...

Jazz Music and its Development

In eight pages the American musical form known as jazz and its development are examined. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

Jazz Saxophonist John Coltrane and His Important Influence Upon Music

In 6 pages this paper examines the influential jazz musician John Coltrane in a consideration of his Islam conversion and his ques...

Confrontation in 2 Twentieth Century Novels

In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus

result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...

Louis Armstrong's Musical Influence

In 1947, Armstrong was placed in a group of jazz musicians, and they played a semblance of the old New Orleans style type jazz ("A...

American Culture in the 1920s

won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...

Folk and Jazz Influences Upon Igor Stravinsky's Compositions

In ten pages this research paper examines how jazz and folk music profoundly influenced this Russian composer as he works clearly ...