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    Imagine being just 6 years years old and having your mom tell you there is a woman who has cursed you to death, hates you, and won’t die till you do. Aurora had to live with all that and she had to live in hiding with 2 whackjob fairies taking care of her. That was all because her parents didn’t invite someone to her birth celebration. In the film Sleeping Beauty a beautiful, elegant, and kind young maiden is born. Maleficent who the lunatic of the story does not get invited to the celebration of

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    will happen in the next scene. Pace of both the visual content and music highlight what the audience should feel while analyzing the message the director is getting across to the audience. In his documentary, Waiting for Superman, the film director Davis Guggenheim implements a melodramatic soundtrack and fluctuating pace to intensify the sentiment the audience should perceive while watching the heartbreaking details and brief, yet crucial, optimistic moments unfold. Moreover, the two attributes that

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    Miles Davis and John Coltrane Miles Davis was named as one of the most important musicians (trumpeters) of the twentieth century. John Coltrane – a groundbreaking acclaimed American saxophonist. It is impossible to go into the genre of jazz or talk about American contemporary music without mentioning their names. Hard bop, modal jazz were their main musical features that to this day are an influence of most jazz today. Both born in 1926, they each had their own path to success and fame. At just the

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    American drummer Brian Blade has conquered many jazz fans with his sophisticated technique, open nature, and instinctual rhythm. His unique touch, never too loud and never too soft, has played a crucial role in projects of likes such as Kenny Garrett, Joshua Redman, Mark Turner, David Binney, and Wayne Shorter. He also built an amazing reputation as a leader of the Fellowship Band, a 20-year endeavor that normally comprises two saxophones, one or two guitars, piano/keyboards, and bass. Body and Shadow

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    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

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    As inspiring as the music of Coltrane itself, “Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary” unfolds the life of the galactic saxophonist whose soulful approach to music incessantly spread light, peace, and love into the world. Coltrane put his life in music, resorting to a unique timbre, accurate technique, and an unshakeable spirituality, delivering quintessential records that still sound modern and bold today. I believe that every true jazz fan was touched in a way or another by the art of this

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    he was the seventh out of eleven children. He was a classic freelance musician, his career spans more than 70 years. During this time he created a name for himself that will forever cement him along with the legends like Duke Ellington and Miles Davis. Mr. Clark was a man of many talents and during his time on this earth he was became a world-class trumpeter, flugelhornist, educator, composer, writer, trumpet/flugelhorn designer, teacher and even an NEA Jazz Master; He made flugelhorn what it is

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    Biography of Miles Davis Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois on May 26, 1926. He was the son of a dental surgeon and a music teacher in a middle class household. Davis developed his earliest appreciation for music listening to the gospel music of the black church. His father introduced him to playing the trumpet at the age of 13. Miles Davis had talent playing the trumpet and was soon sent to music school directed by Elwood Buchanan. He quickly developed his own style inspired by major trumpeters

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    Considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time. Duke Ellington had an enormous impact on the popular music in the late 1920s. For almost fifty years he toured the world as a bandleader and piano player. Today his recordings are among the most popular jazz of the big-band era. Born in Washington D.C. in 1899 Edward Kennedy Ellington was his name or better known as “Duke” began playing piano as a child. His mother who also played the piano saw his education and by the time he was seventeen

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    Miles Dewey Davis III was a phenomenal jazz trumpeter from the late 1940’s who composed several timeless jazz classics and would soon become immortalized within the genre. While attending the Institute of Musical Art, Davis skipped several classes only to participate in jam sessions with his mates, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who too will become popular musicians. Davis and Parker often collaborated during the late 1940s, exploring with the capabilities of what one can improvise with harmonies

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