Essays on Jazz

Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn; Two Ladies of Jazz Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan are two of the great jazz voices of the 20th century and though they both sang jazz standards and pop tunes of the time they both had their own distinct style. They have recorded much of the same songs but no…

Hop Essay, Research Paper Throughout the history of this state, the music of African-Americans has remained a strong influence upon our society and civilization. Get downing with the music carried over from Africa with the slaves, up until now, with the new manners created by urban young person today, African-Americans have retained certain elements within…

Cool Jazz and society             Everywhere one goes today, it appears that jazz has established itself there. Jazz is one of the universally accepted forms of music and is generally well loved and listened to by many people. It is an important musical genre because of its contribution to the expansion, growth, diversification and evolution…

The decade of the 1940’s was an important era in the history of jazz. The 1940’s was a transition from traditional jazz into modern jazz. Leading this transition was the introduction of the Bebop period in Jazz. Bebop created controversy in the jazz world for being a contradiction to traditional jazz and was widely disliked…

There are many different types of music in the world, and each one is different because of certain characteristics that help to make that genre stand apart from all the others. One of these genres is Jazz. Jazz is a type of music that was created mainly by black Americans during the early twentieth century,…

1. In their paper on “Understanding the Role of ‘Vision’ in Project Success, Christenson and Walker (2004, p. 39) argue that “project vision is a significant contributing factor to project success, and, the communication and maintenance of a project vision will impact project outcomes”. a. How do Christenson and Walker (2004) define project vision? What…

Introduction Swing Jazz. Does swing equal jazz? Is swing the same as big band music? Is swing exclusively dance music? Is there any such thing as pure swing? Benny Goodman, a famous American jazz musician, clarinetist, and known as the “King of Swing” once said that swing music “remains something you take 5,000 words to…

One musical style that developed in the twentieth century is jazz. While its roots may be African American, jazz is considered the only American contribution to music (Wright, 1996, p.390). Alongside with blues and popular music, jazz is music that explored during the age of musical diversity, drawing inspiration from “musical streams from the New…

In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man Ellison makes strong connections between the musical jazz elements and the Battle Royal excerpt of the novel. The jazz element of improvisation is described to be spontaneous, on the spot, composing to come up with different melodies and is the prominent element used by Ellison in the Battle Royal excerpt…

The origin of rock and roll comes from many roots that date back in the nineteenth century. African-American slaves brought by the early American Celtics during the 17th and 18th century in America brought along with them their native African music which was later influenced by the music of their masters. With the passing of…