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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

Further, Kern’s innovations in music also consisted of experimenting with different types of songs and new instrument usage. “As early as 1913 he suggested to his orchestrator, Frank Saddler (or acquiesced in Saddler's suggestion), that saxophones be used in the pit band for “Oh, I Say!” Although recent musical research has identified these instruments as the smaller European variety rather than the standard American jazz instrument, this use of the saxophone was new” (Bordman). He also experimented

Sidney Bechet was one of many fantastic up and coming jazz musicians in the Roaring Twenties. He started on the clarinet, but eventually became one of the first performers to adopt the soprano saxophone as a main instrument, as well as one of the first to improvise with the swing style of jazz. In addition, he was one of the first artists to record using a multitrack which was a way of recording where you would play back the track from one instrument while you recorded with another instrument and

Bebop Jazz Jazz is a genre of music in which improvisation is typically an important part. Jazz has had a major influence on most popular music genres in the 20th century such as rock, hip-hop, Latin and the list goes on. There’s a genre of jazz for every single individual out there which makes it such an interesting topic and from there branches another very popular subgenre of jazz called Bebop. Bebop is a style of jazz which was developed in the 1940s. Bebop had the effect of removing jazz

With the advent of the 1920s and the signing of the Nineteenth Amendment came a rapid movement toward women’s rights. It sped up with the beginning of World War II where six million women went to work in military factories, producing ammunition and other military goods for the sixteen million troops fighting abroad. The end of the war brought the realization that American women could work just as hard and efficiently as American men. Thus the idea of feminism was born. From here, the momentum continued

Electric Miles Davis 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

diverse paths to create sounds and rhythmic patterns. This distinct musical innovator that influenced jazz beyond its limits is the great Miles Davis. Davis was born on May 25, 1926, in Alton, Illinois. But, he grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois. His father was dental surgeon, therefore they never had any financial need or any challenge that could disturb Davis’ life. During his childhood he received music lesson and by the age of thirteen he got his first trumpet. One of the most significant teacher

Miles Davis: The music’s right but the approach is wrong. Music listeners everywhere have heard at least a smidgen of the music from “the prince of darkness”. Although Miles Davis, dubbed the “most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century” by Rolling Stone Magazine and known as the birth of cool, attitudes and behaviors we never truly kind and the man was notoriously known as a jerk, his music was of great importance to the jazz

The film begins with Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon), living repressed lives in Arkansas. Both women have stereotypical roles in this movie. As best friends, they decide to go on an adventure that takes a dramatic turn and ends up being an adventurous police chase to the sudden death. Thelma is an unhappy housewife who despises her husband (Daryl), who is a bumbling, controlling and narcissistic. Her character is somewhat infantile, in that she relies completely on her husband for

Comparing Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adolf Hitler "To ‘learn’ history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.” – Adolf Hitler Growing up poor in a small town in Austria he had dreams of becoming famous; some would even say this dream soon became an obsession. This fascination soon engulfed his life, viewing his goals as a catalyst for a better life. After a brief stint in the army he pursued this dream