Summary: I Am Jazz

The era of the Roaring Twenties, was a time of great societal change. Many of these changes were greatly influenced by jazz music. During this time, the country was coming out of World War I and the attitude of most people was dark and dismal. Dance and music clubs became tremendously popular in an effort to improve the quality of life for many people.

On Tuesday, April 12th 2016 I went to Chris Jazz Café to see a live Jazz performance from three young artists; Dave D’Arville the Temple Jazz Guitarist, Alex Cross the Pianist, Mat Campbell was on the Bass and Phil Arrington was on the Drums. The show started at 7 pm and ended at 10 however, at 8:30 there was an intermission. Chris Jazz café was on a little block called Sansom Street, at first it was hard to find because the hotel parking sign covered the Jazz sign. When you first walk in, the hosts greet you and ask if you want to sit near the stage or in the back a one of the high-top tables. The atmosphere of the place was really nice, it was good vibes and so relaxed; the café felt safe to be alone that evening.

Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro Life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul—the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Yet the Philadelphia clubwoman… turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifestations—likewise almost anything else distinctly racial…She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug as near white in smug as she wants to be. But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist …to change through the hidden force of his art that old whispering “I want to be white,” hidden in the aspirations of his people, to “Why should I want to be white? I am Negro—and beautiful.”

Jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul-the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Yet the Philadelphia club woman , turns up her nose at jazz and all its manifetations-likewise almost anything else distinctly racial... She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all Negroes are as smug and as near white in soul as she wants to be. But, to my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, to change through the force of his art that old whispering "I want to be white, hidden in the aspirations of his people, to "Why should I want to he white? I am Negro-and beautiful"

Who was Miles Davis and why was he such an important element in the music of Jazz? Miles Davis, as we would know him, was born Miles Dewey Davis in Alton, Illinois on the 25th of May 1926 to a middle-class black family.. A couple of years later, Miles went on to St. Louis where he grew up. Since he was a youngster, Miles' hobby was to collect records and play them over without getting tired of them. Since his family knew Miles was so interested in the music of his time, primarily Jazz, for his thirteenth birthday Miles received his first trumpet, although he had been playing since the age of nine. With this Miles began to practice and play his trumpet along with his records. Who would have known that just three years later, at the

Jazz Jennings is a 15-year-old author, spokesmodel, LGBTQ rights activist, transgender teen activist, youtube and television personality. She has her own docu-series: Her series allows viewers to follow her as she lives her life as a transgender teen and strives to help other transgender children. Viewers witness the struggles and triumphs Jazz and her family experience: I am Jazz airs Wednesdays at 10/9C on The Learning Channel (TLC).

Jazz, a novel by Toni Morrison, explores many different aspects of African American life in the early part of the twentieth century. This novel tells a story of the difficulties faced by black families living in the United States. Toni Morrison describes in detail a few of the upsetting situations they had to face. She also subtly throughout the book places one or two lines that tell a tale of injustice. Jazz is a novel filled with many stories of inequality affecting the black community.

A recent article from ministrymagazine.org, “Jazz Charges Emotion”, concerns about jazz music that’s condemned as being sinful. Authors Melvin Hill pays attention on what does certain types of music affects us, in term of jazz is being used as an composite term. He describe some factors about how music affects emotions of the listener, then influence their thought, and conducts them. He also describe why does jazz music was used exclusively in night clubs, strip tease joints, and another kinds of immoral places, based on “addictive” effects of music itself. These kind of argument that’s being used by the author isn’t wrong, but it couldn’t become a strong opinion on this topic, so it is wrong to state that jazz music charges emotion in particulary wicked side.

music alike ( Windfield 240). A lot of musicians were involved, from Louis Armstrong to Duke Ellington. The Jazz movement affected United States history and the future music industry in a variety of ways.

“You can’t touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it” (“Preface” 7).1 Music is a form of art enjoyed by millions of people each day. It is an art that has continued through decades and can be seen in many different ways. That is why Ellison chooses to illustrate his novel with jazz. Jazz music in Invisible Man gives feelings that Ellison could never explain in words. In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, the narrator’s search for his identity can be compared to the structure of a jazz composition.

In his CNN article, “When Jazz Stopped Being Cool,” writer John Blake uses the publication of “Jazz Festival: Jim Marshall,” to reflect on the life and times of Jazz music and the questions of if, how, and when it had died. This book pays tribute to the great quantity and quality of photographical works put forth by the prominent photographer Jim Marshall and contains written contributions by President Bill Clinton and Nat Hentoff, a music critic. Blake explains how Jazz music was shoved from the “mainstage” and “eclipsed” by Rock music, among other musical styles, by using three main theories. His first theory is that Jazz music stopped making money in the same manner that it had previously. It was surpassed by Rock album sales which

One cannot speak about music especially in America with referencing Jazz or the Blues. The two genres of music are synonymous with the American music scene originating from Southern America. Their similar point of origin has caused much confusion in distinguishing the two mainly due to the way today’s artists’ music crossover. Both Jazz and Blues, are two independent genres that formed concurrently in the 20th century and were produced at the same time.

The end of the 1920s was known for the ending of the silent film in Hollywood. With the advancement of sound technology, it has transformed the way we view films in today’s world. It all began with a film called The Jazz Singer, directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson, Warner Oland, and May McAvoy. The film is about a little boy named Jakie, whose father is a Jewish cantor, and he defied his father by not wanting to follow the family tradition of cantors. He wanted to be a performer, specifically, a jazz singer. One day, he was discovered by his neighbor Moisha and thus he got beat up and kicked out of the house. Jakie vowed to never return home. A decade later, Jackie is a performer with the help of his lover Mary with a new identity by the name of Jack Robin who wears a black face when on stage. One night, his father fell ill and was asked to sing at the synagogue, however, it fell on the same day as his opening show on Broadway. Jakie had to make a tough decision choosing between his family or his career.

Jazz also had parents that influenced her in positive ways allowing her to be who she was and decided to let her wear a girls rainbow bathing suit at one of her birthday party 's and this was special occasion because it was the first time she was able to dress girly instead of normal boy clothing. It was a breaking point in which she could then express herself through clothing as children often do. Jazz also had a great attitude and seemed to be very wise beyond her years. She seemed like a very upbeat

Counterpoint is one of the most disregarded and undocumented compositional techniques in jazz literature. A reduced number of jazz books available nowadays include information regarding polyphonic writing, and the amount of material contained in them can hardly be considered a method by which a musician can learn and develop this discipline. The main reason for the lack of academic material on this subject is the predominance of homophonic texture in jazz, William Russo states, “to date, most jazz has been homophonic; the use of counterpoint has been minimal.” But this was not always the case; the historical basis for jazz is polyphonic.