Essays 151 - 180
Twentieth century jazz musician the life and career of the legendary 'Dizzy' Gillespie is discussed in a paper that is nearly five...
his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...
the life of little Nat, whom the world later came to know and love as Nat "King" Cole. II. A Musical Background Once situated in...
In five pages these revolutionary jazz musicians are compared in terms of these two definitive works. There is no bibliography in...
In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...
performing with others but always alone. They talked the talk of jazz, built communal rites around using the jazzmans drugs, and ...
In five pages this research paper focuses upon 3 performances delivered by the famous team the Nicholas Brothers in this considera...
This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...
In eight pages this paper examines how Toni Morrison reflected the Harlem Renaissance artistic movement in her novel Jazz. Two so...
This paper consists of 12 pages and chronicles those significant performers whos contributions are often overlooked in other books...
This 7 page paper discusses the life and works of Toni Morrison, concentrating on Jazz, Sula and The Bluest Eye. There are 7 sourc...
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...
In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...
Fitzgerald, had acquired a bad reputation in Paris. When they werent on drinking binges, they were flirting with members of the o...
the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...
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...
the 1920s turned to the American Dream we know today, which involves the assumption that if we work hard we can have wealth, and w...
As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...
attended but did not graduate from Princeton University. While at Princeton however, Fitzgerald was first exposed to the exceeding...
Miles Davis, and many of the works which came from those periods are still considered classics today (Biography of Miles Davis, 20...
include: The Homestead Act, National Urban League, direct election of U.S. Senators, child labor laws, and federal regulation of b...
where responses were made, which in turn may also be seen to have cross overs with gospel music. The aspect in which blues...
phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...
mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...
In ten pages the history of Latin jazz is presented with a discussion of locations such as New York City and important musicians s...
was three years old (Bailey, 2002). Although she was born in Virginia, she grew up in New York. In fact, she only lived in the sou...
p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...
In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...
Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...
the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...