How Did Gordon's Life Influence His Autobiography?

Marshall. Joplin went to George R. Smith College probably in the 1896. No body knows

5. Gordon Bennett was born in monto, Queensland in 1995, Bennett grew up in Victoria from the age of four. After working in various trades in his early life, Bennett enrolled as a mature age student at Queensland College of art (fine art) degree in 1988. His first major solo exhibition was in 1989. His work had been at the forefront of contemporary Australian art and had been recognized internationally for its innovative and critical engagement with ideas and issues of ongoing relevance to contemporary culture.

He was born on 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts, the 2nd oldest of six siblings, and was a skilled violinist since he was a kid (The Black Past). When he got a promotion at his magazine job when he was 14, he got his first camera. He was one of the first people in his town to own a personal camera so it was up to him to photograph lower class African American life at the time. At least until he, his brother Walter, and his dad would move to the Big Apple where he would work as an elevator operator and a waiter. While there,

Ch. 5; What factors in Robinson’s background and character made him the best choice to carry out Rickey’s revolution?

Miles Davis known as Miles Dewey Davis III was born May 26, 1926 in Alton Illinois. Miles Davis mother was Cleota Mae Henry-Davis and his father was Miles Dewey Davis Jr. Miles got married three times to Cicely Tyson, Frances Taylor and Betty Mabry. The marriages didn’t last, He got a divorce! He had one daughter, three sons and seven grandchildren. Miles died September 28, 1991 in Santa Monica, California at the age of 65 of of pneumonia, respiratory failure, and a stroke. Miles was a Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. Miles Davis played the trumpet, organ, piano, flugelhorn, and synthesizer. At the age of 13, his music studies started. Miles mother, Cleota was a blues pianist and she wanted him to learn the piano also. But his father, Miles Davis Jr gave a trumpet. His father arranged it so that a local musician name Elwood Buchanan would give him some lessons.

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 1899, to parents James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. Duke, even as a teenager, had a great talent for music. His school music teacher, Mrs. Clinkscales, who played the piano, was always the

A legend of the modern music was born on 21st of May, 1904 to humble and religious parents in an uptown state of New York. Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller, or simply known as Fats Waller, mom was a well-known instrumentalist who had influenced the boy from his early childhood. His fierce determination for jazz overruled his father’s desire for him to pursue a religious career and do classical music instead of jazz. During his lifetime he wrote multiple classics and showed the world that despite the bounds of society and one's race, one can achieve one’s lifelong dream. He has demonstrated through his lyrics from his songs, even though the world wasn't with him, he loved jazz and also became an idol for modern day jazz and became very relevant

Many people knew Louis Armstrong as the “first real genius of jazz”(Shipton 26). He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 4, 1901. Louis was the illegitimate son of William Armstrong and Mary Est “Mayann” Albert. He was abandoned by his father, a boiler stoker, shortly after his birth and was raised by his paternal grandmother. Then, at the age of five, he was returned to the care of his mother, who at the time worked as a laundress. Together with his mom, they moved to a better area of New Orleans. This is where Armstrong first fell in love with music; he would listen to people playing any chance that he would get(Tirro). He would attend parades, funerals, churches and go to cheap cabarets to be able to hear some of the greats play

Aside from the typical cultural, social, and political factors influencing any musician’s style, an early life filled with poverty and hardship also shaped Louis Armstrong’s musical development. Some even theorize that it was Armstrong’s difficult upbringing that made his music so wise, so unique, and so revolutionary. Armstrong was an African American child growing up in the slums of New Orleans, close to abandonment, impoverished, and with too few constant people, resources, or homes. However, had his upbringing been different, his musical talents may never have been established to grow and thrive into one of the most internationally influential jazz musicians ever. When Louis Armstrong was placed in a boys’ home as a young boy, he was presented with the opportunity to play the cornet. He took up work in Joe (King) Oliver’s house, doing chores in exchange for musical lessons, developing into a

Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis went to New York to study at Juilliard but spend much more time hanging out on 52nd Street and eventually dropped out of school. He moved from his home in East St. Louis to New York primarily to enter school but also to locate his musical idol,

in Kansas City and became one of the most famous jazz musicians of all time. He led us

Robert Glasper was Born April 5th, 1978 in Houston Texas Roberts earliest musical influence. Was his mother Kim Yvette Glasper, who sang blues and jazz professionally she would. Take him to her gigs at nightclubs instead of hiring babysitters, she was a music director at the east wind Baptist church. This was where Glasper first performed and feel in love with performing. He would at the time play at Sunday's etc for. churches in particular Baptist, Catholic, and Seventh day adventist. Robert says he developed his first sound in church harmonys. This inspired him to fuse church harmonies with jazz harmonies, Glasper attended Elkins high school Missouri city,Texas for performing and visual arts. And went on to attend college at The New School

Louis Jordan was born into music. The son of a music teacher and bandleader, Jordan was taught by his father in both the clarinet and saxophone. After performing locally with his father’s group, Rabbit Foot Minstrels, as a teenager, he attended the Arkansas Baptist College, majoring in music. After completing his education, he and his family moved to Philadelphia, with Jordan soon after moving to New York on his own. While in New York Jordan was invited to play in the legendary bandleader and drummer Chick Webb’s big band, where he played both alto and soprano saxophones.

Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City on August 29, 1920; at this time Kansas City was a center of African-American music. Parker quickly developed talents at the public school he attended, Lincoln High, on the baritone but by the time he was 15, alto saxophone had become Parker’s instrument of choice. From 1935 to 1939 Parker played in the Kansas City music scene, mostly at a place known as the Reno Club. In the year 1954, taken over by drugs and alcohol, Charlie Parker died in a New York apartment.

Throughout life, people are influenced by others when it comes to career paths. For example, career paths can be directed by our backgrounds such as family and culture. The career path I chose has been influenced by family and those who support me and encourage me during school. The career path, I have chosen is to work with women survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. I will discuss how self-assessments helped me gain an understanding, which careers might be worth pursuing because of my interests.