Blue

The story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a conflict between two brothers who find a way to reconnect through music after many years of disagreement. In the story Sonny has become a heroin addict while living in poverty in an era of segregation. Sonny tries to escape all his hardships through heroin. The narrator decides to write Sonny after his daughter dies, trying to escape his own hardships by reconnecting with his brother. He finds that Sonny has had a rough life over the years and he struggles

Stravinsky’s work "one of our musical Gods.” In spite of the fact “traces of jazz elements, especially blues and boogie-woogie (“Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African American communities in the 1870s. It was eventually extended from piano, to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While the blues traditionally expresses a variety of emotions, boogie-woogie is mainly associated with dancing. The lyrics

The Blue Whale is a live jazz venue and art space in Downtown Los Angeles within the Little Tokyo neighborhood. It is now hosting Steve Coleman & Five Elements. Every night in December, Steve and his band is performing and running intensive workshops for musicians. The performance on Saturday, December 5, 2015, was memorable. It featured Steve Coleman on the alto sax, Jonathan Finlayson playing the trumpet, Maria Grand on the tenor sax, Miles Okazaki on the guitar, Anthony Tidd on the bass, and Sean

James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues is an interesting as well as an enlightening story. Baldwin is successful to describe Sonny’s life struggle through the analysis of Sonny’s relation with the family members in a poor neighborhood of Harlem and his mission of becoming a musician to free himself from the drug addiction. Definitely characterization is the strongest part of the story because Baldwin has effectively presented the main characters; Sonny, his brother and their mother, through in depth psychological

it is today without rhythm and blues, and would you believe me? While the blues or rhythm and blues as it was originally called, evolved into a variety of subgenres, you can still recognize and hear its musical elements in just about every rock song. Every song can vary in their delivery, instruments come and go, additional vocalists can be added or subtracted and lyrics are developed from personal stories or experiences. When you consider the elements of the blues you can see the clear resemblances

Rhythm and Blues is consist of black musical genres such as gospel, big-band swing, as well as blues. The term originated in the 1940s as a synthesis for black music. With the popularization of R&B so has the electric bass. In the 1950s R&B would instead be called Rock & Roll. This purpose of this was to camouflage the black roots within R&B. Afterwards soul, funk, disco, rap, and other offspring would arise from these roots. R&B has been an integral part of the black community forged by common

Maryland is known for their blue crabs, but if crabbers exploit the blue crabs’ population, Maryland’s famous blue crabs will be extinct. Blue crabs play a large economic role in Maryland as they bring in money for the state, whether it be from people going crabbing or eating crabs. With all the benefits of blue crabs in Maryland, the government has taken a stand to ensure a large blue crab population in the future. The blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay was considered to be a surplus from

The relation between Blues and Jazz music can be discovered if we look closely and scrutinize the origins of both the music genres. How one developed can be found out from the roots of the other as both the separate genres use similar sound patterns. Both of these genres belong to a different decade/era however, are closely linked to one another. In this essay I will deliver a brief history of both Blues and Jazz, their similarities, and also discuss how the advancement of technology has affected

back to the idea that music reflects life. One genre of music that is particularly obvious in what it is trying to express, is blues music. Blues music is a genre of music that is most often associated with melancholy lyrics and notes, combining slow and long patterns and melodic sequences. After first rising to popularity at a fundamental time in our country’s history, blues music eventually went on to become one of the most impactful aspects in the music world because of the several artists that gave

Thoughts on the Color, Blue During the time when polytheistic religions were widely practiced in Europe, colors represented ideas associated with the paranormal and the spiritual. In many cases, the color blue represented safety and protection. It was believed that if someone wore or carried something blue, the bearer would be protected from evil spirits. Over time, as patriarchal societies formed, the welfare of the male child took priority over the welfare of the female child. Since male children