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Jazz Musician Dizzy Gillespie

Twentieth century jazz musician the life and career of the legendary 'Dizzy' Gillespie is discussed in a paper that is nearly five...

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 ...

Nat King Cole's 'Unforgettable' Life and Legacy

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...

Comparing 'Boplicity' by Miles Davis with 'Lady Be Good' by Charlie Parker

In five pages these revolutionary jazz musicians are compared in terms of these two definitive works. There is no bibliography in...

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...

Bebop Jazz and the Reaction of Whites

performing with others but always alone. They talked the talk of jazz, built communal rites around using the jazzmans drugs, and ...

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 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...

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...

Literature and Reality

In twelve pages this paper examines how reality is perceived in the literary works Jazz by Toni Morrison, Waiting for Godot by Sam...

An Examination of 'Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, had acquired a bad reputation in Paris. When they werent on drinking binges, they were flirting with members of the o...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

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 Age and F. Scott Fitzgerald

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...

Jazz Pioneers Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins

As this suggests, their styles are quite different. Hawkins monopoly on the tenor sax ended in 1933 when he was playing with the...

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...

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...

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...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...

Blacks in Gone With the Wind and The Jazz Singer

mythos, Negroes were naturally more musical, more rhythmic, and better dancers than any other group. Therefore the studios scurrie...

A Latin Jazz Exploration

In ten pages the history of Latin jazz is presented with a discussion of locations such as New York City and important musicians s...

Looking at 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Gershwin Songbook'

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...

Shanghai and the Jazz Age

p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...

Rhys: "Let Them Call It Jazz"

In her story Let them call it jazz, Rhys "assumes the personality of Selina, a black West Indian in London, whose struggles parall...

The Idea of Dreams from Toni Morrison and Alain Locke

Morrisons novel this rebirth was filled with dreams and possibilities. For Joe and Violet it was a dream of better opportunities. ...

The Alex Blake Quartet in Concert

the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...