Rhythm and blues

and blues. Indeed, an essential characteristic of jazz is its ability to constantly evolve and incorporate elements of antecedent and contemporary music that lend it vitality and richness. Defined by intense displays of personal expression and interpretation, jazz was a “creative force” with “widespread appeal to non-black musicians and audiences” and ultimately became a means of testing sociocultural hierarchies. Coming from a similar Southern background,…

The Romantic era helped to establish Country music. The Romantic era was the most popular and preferred genre of music because it focused on the melodies and the ballads. While still having the ability to cross over and offer beats, rhythms and harmony, just like today’s Country music is used in a variety of ways, as it is the only genre of music to ever cross over to every other genre with its subcategories. Country music offers a noticeable element of instrumentation of various kinds…

instrumentation, throughout the whole concert they used trumpets,trombones, and saxophones for frontline, and bass, piano, and drums for the rhythm section. That did not mean that's all they did. The bass even had a solo in one of the small group sessions. I liked it. I never heard a bass…

Blue is psychologically at the border of suicide. (podcast tip sound effects taste) Colors affect our psychology. Food establishments use yellow and red because of the powerful effects. Pink shows a strong affects to physical athletes, improving aggression and response time. While it also makes you score lower on tests. The most interesting of the colors though, is the most common. You know the one. The invented one. If you are not familiar. Its from a Radiolab podcast but based on the book…

“groove” of blues emerged (Carruth 53). Similar to ragtime, blues resulted from the traditional sound of West African music. However, it is very different in terms of its tone and mood. “While ragtime is jangly and spirited, the blues takes after its name: blue, or melancholy” (Szepesi). Blues is known for its call-and-response and twelve-bar blues contributions to jazz. Most notably, its hypnotically smooth “groove” rhythm is what really sets it apart from ragtime. Also, unlike ragtime,…

many but also possessed the capability of bridging racial differences. If a listener was able to seep into the core of jazz, they would recognize that its improvisation and swing feeling was derived from the popular genres of ragtime and blues. Ragtime and blues share several similarities as well as differences, though each…

time period. One of these great innovators was George Gershwin, who created Rhapsody in Blue. Gershwin’s introduction of a new music style in his first performance sent waves around the country that pulled in people of all music preference. The musical genius, Gershwin, created a new rhythm and style by combining Classical and Jazz music. In the time before Gershwin rose to fame for his song Rhapsody in Blue, Jazz was constantly changing with the time period. Jazz first arose as an exciting new…

pianist switched to keyboard where we saw the jazz organ played. The tone was different and seemed to fit in well with the way the chart was played. The piece had a few soloists, the tenor player had a lot of emotion expressed which played off the rhythm section blending together. The trombone player was bright in his tone, worked the horn from the high register and down to the lower registered and had a good drive. The guitarist showcased a lot of sounds that we spoke of in class such as…

INTRODUCTION The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feeling bad. Another clever blues man said blues is what a blues doctor prescribes for the people who have the blues. Which is less crazy then it sounds Blues stands out to be a great music genre when compared to others as blues music often express worry or depression melancholic music of black American folk origin, typically in a twelve-bar sequence. It developed in the rural southern US towards the end of the 19th century, finding a…

popularized by Miles Davis in his 1959 album Kind of Blue. The disc is "So What", a subject of only two chords that perfectly sums up the essence of modal jazz: leave much room for improvisation in each chord than usual in most subjects and standards, so that it is natural for the musician to explore in detail the musical scale or mode derived from each line, rather than simply focusing on notes accords. The Melodic Section and a Rhythm Section.  Rhythm and swing All features jazz group,…