The Blue Whale: Concert Analysis

Charlie Parker was one of the most influential and important soloists in Jazz history and was important to the development of the Bebop style. Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas on August 29, 1920. In 1927 Charlie Parker’s family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, an influential center for African American jazz music in the 20th century. The rich musical culture in Kansas City fostered the development of the young Charlie Parker who began playing alto saxophone in 1933. After Parker left school in 1935 he pursued a career as a professional musician in Kansas City and played among various blues and jazz groups. In 1939 Parker visited New York, the national center for the music business at the time, for a year and participated in jam sessions with other musicians. Parker’s time spent in New York left him bored with the clichés of the popular Swing style still very common in America. He envisioned a new style of music, contrary to Swing jazz, that emphasized a new set of techniques. This new style of music which became Bebop would finally reach maturity in the mid 1940’s led by Charlie Parker (Patrick).

The term “free jazz” was first coined from Coleman’s album titled Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. The album starts off with all of the woodwinds and brass and continues with improvised solos from the clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, bass, and drums. Coleman uses the twelve-bar blues form and experiments with harmonic improvisation between the musicians. Reviews for Coleman’s album were conflicting; Pete Welding, record producer, gave the recordings five stars, citing “it is by all odds

Bebop Jazz is the subgenre of jazz that has its origins during the early to mid - 1940’s in the United States. Bebop Jazz is characterized by its instrumental expertise, complex chord progressions that change rapidly, a naturally fast tempo, a diverse amount of key changes, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, and the use of many scales and infrequent connections to the melody. Bebop Jazz is one of the many major foundations responsible for shaping and creating the modern jazz present today.

a. Most of the collective music manifestations found in sub-Saharan Africa represent the community, and encourage group participation using a method that is called call-and-response. If they aren’t using a call-and-response such music’s are usually to be found at events such as religious ceremonies, and/or most other ritual based activities.

A young boy sits on the floor gazing up in amusement as his parents tell him stories that have traveled from generation to generation. Whether it be a tale of malicious war or brave acts of heroism, the little boy will always remember the impactful tales. But what about the parents; what is their motive for telling tales to their child? People tell stories for different reasons; a best selling author may write his story to sell books. While a parent tells a story to set their child straight, others simply want the thrill of telling tales of their adventurous life. For The Tao Jones ,or TJ, in Chris Crutcher's Whale Talk, the most impactful story he will hear and tell is his own. Someone might not solely tell their own story but, are also able to tell the story of those around them. Superficially, TJ’s story is one of brutal negativity and oppression. However, beneath the surface TJ and other peoples’ tale, is one of the unbreakable bond of brotherhood, unique self identity, and last chance at redemption.

In the middle of the 19th century, Congo Square became a center of musical expression. On these Sunday afternoons, a new form of music was born. Pioneered by those on the bottom of a society full of slavery and segregation, the origin of jazz was less a singular event than an evolving movement. None of those pioneers, however, could have anticipated the future of their developing art form. None could have foreseen that their informal rhythmic gatherings would eventually lead to nationally recognized big bands with more than 20 musicians and celebrity band leaders. The trajectory of jazz history is complex and rich, flowing from style to style and from region to region. Each step along the way from the early brass bands to the bebop bands

To support himself Charlie washed dishes at a local food joint, where he met Buddy Fleet, who was the one who tutored Charlie in playing the saxophone. Charlie would then return to Kansas City due to the death of his father and stayed home for about a half a year while playing in a small band there. Then in late 1939 Charlie joined back up with McShann and moved back to Harlem, where Charlie would meet Dizzie Gillespie. Gillespie would join Charlie and would start to work together and develop a new form of jazz. While Charlie was experimenting with a number of different chords in a jam session he discovered a new approach to improvisation. These new chord progressions and the ever emerging sounds of Harlem, bebop was born.

Jazz is a music genre that has complex characteristics and history of development and thus many musicians and scholars face troubles in defining what jazz is. In general, jazz is believed to have born in New Orleans. Jazz developed for the pleasure of the social dancers. According to the “Understanding Jazz: What Is Jazz?” of John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts, Jazz was created mainly by Afro-Americans, and had elements of European and Afro-American culture. Also, it emphasizes few elements of Jazz, which are swing-feel, syncopation, and improvisation. These different culture and elements of jazz may be explained by how jazz

Bebop Jazz known as Jazz music today have shared its roots with the various tradition of music such as the American, European and the African. The unique mesh of Bebop jazz cultural influences has made it a true American style in music. The music influence by the Bebop jazz has flowed through many aspects of the modern cultures of people, and this is the cornerstone of the 20th-century music. The first and the most prominent jazz music was on the African heritage that was kept alive by the slaves in South America. The music was mainly composed with an intention of comforting and helping the Africans cope with the harsh labor conditions and separation from their families. The paper will discuss the Bebop jazz music, their elements, and composition.

Charlie had a lonely childhood due to his parents’ separation when he was just 7 years old. After his dad abandoned him, his mom bought Charlie a saxophone to cheer him up. His mom worked two to three jobs and while she worked at night, Charlie would walk around town and listen to jazz. At the age of 11, he was playing the saxophone. Since he didn’t have any formal training, Charlie taught himself by practicing up to 14 hours a day and memorizing records made by Lester Young. When he turned 14, he dropped out of high school and joined his first band and started experimenting different styles. He played remarkably fast lines, added lengthy unpredictable beats which later became known as Be-bop.

In the world of Jazz there are known to be only two time periods in jazz: before Charlie Parker and after Charlie Parker. Charlie Parker has become an American icon and extremely important to the world of jazz. He had many successes throughout his life, but I want to find; how did Charlie Parker’s fast pace improvisation solo style effect the creation of bebop? Carlie Parker’s complex harmony and rhythms he integrated into his improvisation solo style laid the groundwork for the creation of a new jazz style known today as bebop.

Adriana Trevino MUFHL 315 October 2, 2014 Jazz Roots: The Creation of Jazz Louis Armstrong said “Jazz is only what ya are” (Deveaux, Giddins 106). During the nineteenth century, African American people faced many obstacles and coped through activities such as singing, and musical skills. Especially in New Orleans, a port city where people were either black (or colored creole a mixed African and Spanish or African and French descent) or white. Jazz is a mixture of many diverse components, and genres like polyrhythmic African American folk music. Over the years jazz has been played by every color of people, every gender and age but still remains an African American based genre.

The origins of jazz music and dance are found in the rhythms and movements brought to America by African slaves. The style of African dance is earthy; low, knees bent, pulsating body movements emphasized by body isolations and hand-clapping. As slaves forced into America, starting during the 1600’s, Africans from many cultures were cut off from their families, languages and

The main ideas of this article are discussing how bebop became a genre. First, he started with where the name came from. The name, bebop, might come from the song “Hey Baba Rebop,” or it might come from the vocal imitation or instrumental phrases. According to Clarke, the music was not called bop, in fact, it did not have a name; they called it modern. Second, Meadows talked about the innovators of bebop. Buster Smith, Charlie Parker’s

Jazz was inspired by African-American folk music, Blues and Ragtime in the early 20th century and introduced in New Orleans. According to the text book “Discovering Humanities”, “Jazz was “the” American music, and was almost as popular in Paris and Berlin as it was in New York, Chicago, and New Orleans” (468). The first feature of Jazz is improvisation, when a song was played there is no specific arrangement, it is spontaneously elaborated around a specific song (Listen, 386). A second feature is that there is a rhythmic style that involves highly developed syncopation. Syncopation occurs when accents in