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with several different combos. While the people of the recordings varied, the lineup often featured Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey. Davis was particularly in love of Rollins and tried several times, in the years that preceded his meeting with John Coltrane, to recruit him for a regular group. He never succeeded because Rollins was prone to make himself unavailable for months at a time. In spite of the casual occasions that generated these recordings, their quality is almost always quite high, and they

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

Jazz Giant---John Coltrane John William Coltrane,(1926 – 1967), also known as "Trane" was an African American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is a the saga of jazz legend, or we can say a jazz giant in global music. The thesis contains two parts, the first part will illustrate the whole life of John Coltrane, and the second part will state the influence which he gave on. He has affected the jazz in his short life, and even his influence continues today. John Coltrane is the most influential African

Tony Bennett: Collaborator and Mentor Over the past couple decades Tony Bennett has become a household name for his role in the jazz music world. His tenor voice is timeless and his performances of jazz standards are held to the highest regard. However, in recent years, Bennett’s presence in the world of jazz has expanded into the realm of popular music. Bennett has released individual songs and entire albums with popular music stars that solely consist of traditional jazz standards. Over the past

Miles Davis is one of the greatest jazz composers in the world. He was a pioneer for cool jazz by changing how people viewed cool jazz it. One of the most famous songs he released was called “Milestones,” recorded around 1958, in the Modal Era. This legendary jazz song has 4/4 time and a swing feel. Its tempo is set at 119 BPM and is in the key of A minor. The instrumentation consists of trumpet, piano, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, piano, double bass, and drums. One adjective I would use to

You get to the base of the glass hill and begin the upward ascent. Even though there is a trail of rocks that is easier to keep a grip on than the pure glass, your feet keep slipping trying to get there. You fall on your hands and knees to keep yourself from tumbling all the way down to the bottom. In some of your stumbles you keep knocking rocks loose from the path. When they are ripped out of the glass hill by your foot there are cracks where there used to be rock and smooth glass. You know if

Topic Questions: Texts are successful when the storyline is unpredictable The film Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese is a somewhat unpredictable film. Being a Psychological thriller, the audience is left in a state of confusion, constantly asking questions throughout the whole film. Psychological thrillers have to be skillfully crafted to keep the audience in a state of suspense. Shutter Island achieves this statement in many ways. It is a movie played out mostly in the point of view of

Media has become an important factor in the society. media represents many good and bad things, but the message that the media depicts by telling girls that their value allies in their bodies is a negative thing as it will only leave them feeling disempowered and it will distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders. The media has a significant hold on girls. They portray them to have prefect bodies and hour-glass figures and this has a negative impact on them. Younger girls start comparing

In the epic of Beowulf, many circumstances helped shape how he would affect his people and the story, this also has much to do with our very own lives. Who we grow up around and how those influences were, has much to do with how we shaped our personality. The people we sometimes didn't even think would affect us actually were a big impact in us, just how Beowulf was probably changed without even knowing it by some few bystanders. But this perhaps sounds like our life was predetermined, and to some

The coach on the team is one of the biggest parts of giving the youth a good experience when participating in sports. For instance, in my last paragraph, I talked about learning to work with others and gaining good social skills from sports. This partly relies on the coaching being involved and caring. If a kid is mad at another kid for doing something wrong the coach needs to address this to have that child understand that he needs to learn to handle it right. Instead of having that kid tell the