Jazz Essays

            Blues is an instrumental and vocal kind of music which originated from the black Americans. Basically it uses the blue notes and patterns that portray African influence. It has revolutionized both Western and American popular music like blue glass, jazz and rhythm and blues. Jazz also originated from the …

            Long before modern jazz originated as a particular style, an ideology of modernism had been implicitly embraced by the music’s practitioners. From its earliest emergence, jazz had been a forward-looking art, embedded in new techniques, more expansive harmonies, more complex rhythms, and more intricate melodies. Early modern jazz, or …

Introduction             The term “Jazz” has become a common part of the American vernacular, both as a noun to describe a type of music and as a verb to describe something that is fancy or enhanced beyond the norm, such as a “jazzed up” car or even another piece of …

The Great Migration was the relocation of more than six million African Americans from the South to the North. They moved from rural areas to the cities, where more jobs and opportunities were available. The factory wages were triple what they made in the south. This movement occurred from 1916-1930. …

Thelonious Monk is known as one of the most unique, inimitable piano players of all time. Monk was both ahead of his time, and deeply rooted in tradition, and used his extraordinary gift of perfect pitch to learn songs and memorize them fast. Thelonious had a love for the piano …

Considered one of the greatest jazz players ever, Benjamin David Goodman, or Benny Goodman, was called the King of Swing. The ninth child of eleven was ten or so when he picked up the clarinet. After a year he was performing impressions of Ted Lewis for a little pocket money. …

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader and orchestral director. Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the “King of Jazz”. …

The great art of Jazz was born in the year of 1895 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz is responsible for the creation of Drum Sets and the creation of words like “cool” and “hip”. Jazz was played in all the bars, honky-tonks, saloons, and dancehalls. Jazz was a tremendous influence …

Any paid form of non-personal presentation or promotion of ideas, goods, or services by an identified sponsor. Introduction Today to be a successful business, the firms need to make a distinctive position in the customer’s minds to obtain the monetary benefits of being different and better than their competitors. Some …

During World War 2, many big band members were drafted or volunteered to join the war effort. Big bands lost some of their great members, and thus big bands came to an end. Swing music, which was very popular during the war, died out at the end of the war. …