Blue Note Records Essays

  • Misterioso: Thelonious Monk

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    Misterioso was recorded live in 1958 by Riverside Records, featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet with Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone instead of John Coltrane, who at that point in his career decided to go solo and at times work with Miles Davis. The others of the quartet include Ahmed Abdul-Malik on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, and Thelonious Monk himself on the piano. This album is one of Monk’s interesting ones, not only losing one familiar partners but two; the first being John Coltrane and the

  • Analysis: Kind Of Blue

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    Kind of Blue the analysis By Maddison H-E The album ‘Kind of Blue’ by Miles Davis was released on the 17th of August 1959. Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. The style of the genre is called modal jazz a part of the cool jazz genre. I will be discussing the Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Form and Structure and texture of the

  • Muddy Waters Biography

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    it brings. The lyrics of this sing include “Well I broke down hungry, I got to go out to the well yard, I got to get myself a food stamp, So I can buy myself a cup of coffee, Well I can see I was born to lose, For me there ain't no escape from the blues.” The sound of his voice has become more clear over the course of his career. Also the overall feel for his songs have become less dark toned and a more upbeat. In a National Public Radio broadcasting they discussed how Muddy Waters audience had shifted

  • Chuck Berry: The Rise Of The King Of Rock & Roll

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    the rise of the King of Rock 'n' Roll, known as Chuck Berry. His musical take on rhythm and blues was a large influence on many successful artists that rose the following decade, but most notably The Rolling Stones. This paper examines the earlier musical career of Chuck Berry and how The Rolling Stones modeled themselves upon him and then expanded themselves further. During the 1950s, many rhythm and blues (R&B) artists, who were of African American descent, used the piano as their main choice of

  • Blues Genre: Muddy Waters

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    as a blues musician with hits such as “I Cant Be Satisfied” (1948). Having signed to Chess records, Waters’ started to enjoy the commercial success that his music allowed him. The audience responded, Marshall Chess recalled to R&B historian Arnold Shaw that “Waters hit the local crowds like Elvis Presley hit the rock n roll scene. .. On Saturday they’d line up ten deep”.(1) Working in the fields of Mississippi Delta, Water’s was brought up surrounded by the “field hollers” that provided blues with

  • Coltrane's Giant Steps

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    when he would try to play every note in every chord. This was tremendously hard to do and he challenged not only himself to do it, but members of his band as well. This is evident in one of his recordings called, “Giant Steps” (Jazzman). This is a sixteen-bar composition that Coltrane wrote himself and had practiced many times before the actual recording day. While Coltrane had time to practice this hard technique in “Giant Steps” his bandmates did not see the notes of the song until the day of the

  • Riley King

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    "T-Bone Walker" influenced jazzy sounding blues riffs. Also, in words of B.B., "I don't do no chords". He can also tell when muted notes are more necessary than full notes. Biography 	For as long as anyone can remember, B.B. King has reigned as the "King Of Blues." With his Gibson guitar named Lucille, along with his unique vocals, king has put out some of the most down-home sounds in African-American music. B.B. King, the world's greatest blues singer had- like a lot of people- had some

  • Essay About T-Bone Walker

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    1910, in Linden Texas; his real name was Aaron Thibeaux Walker. T-Bone’s father and his mother, were both musicians who separated not long after T-Bone was born(“T-Bone”, n.p). T-Bone once said that his earliest memory was hearing his mother playing blues guitar on the front porch (“T-Bone”, n.p). Through his church choir and his street singing stepfather, T-Bone became interested in music. By the time he was 10, T-Bone was accompanying his stepfather at drive-in soft-drink stands (“T-Bone and Rock&Roll’

  • Evolution of the Blues, Effects of Psychedelia and the Ten-Year Arc of the Beatles

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    1. Evolution of the Blues in Music Blues refers to the music genre that originated from the African-American societies mainly from the deep southern region of the United States in the late 19th century. The blues form of music is characterized by notes that are played gradually bent or flattened. The blues notes comprised 12 measures or bars. These notes are used in jazz music, rhythm and blues. The inventors of the blues included slaves and the descendants of the slaves. There is a general belief

  • Livery Stable Blues Music Analysis

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    The recording of the Livery Stable Blues is one of the most important moments in the jazz history, which helped this genre of music get wide recognition outside of New Orleans. In New Orleans, where the jazz music started, music was not a luxury, it was a necessity. Ethnicities represented in New Orleans were as follows: French, Spanish, and African, Italian, German, and Irish (Herbert Asbury, 1938). This unique combination provided a unique mix of cultural influences which gave birth to such unique

  • History and Legacy of Jazz Music

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    a familiar sound could be heard escaping from the walls of the night clubs. The sultry saxophone solos and the strange scatting selections filled the air. The style was new and spontaneous. This new genre incorporated the styles from gospel hymns, blues, and ragtime, yet was completely different in its own way. The sound, with its new techniques that gave it a raw uniqueness, was able to capture America's curiousness, and make many fall head over heels for the new infectious sound. It drew in people

  • Analysis Of Elijah Wald's Cross Road Blues

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    Elijah Wald wants to make sure people do not mistake the surge in popularity of Blues music in the 1920s as untainted folk music that comes directly from the people who are going through hardship and oppression. When in reality it was just produced and distributed by record companies to exploit the idea of prolonged cruel treatment of African Americans around the 1920s. The blues was adopted and exploited by professional singers and songwriters that wanted to make the genre universally accepted so

  • Riley B King Song Meaning

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    passed on her devout Baptist nature and it led to him becoming the lead singer in the Holiness church’s gospel choir. He was heavily influenced by the recordings of Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Johnson. He is known to have blended aspects of the blues with that of Jazz by borrowing techniques of famed Jazz guitarist Django Reinhart and saxophonist Lester Young. His

  • The Influence Of Jazz In The 1920's

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    Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton, recorded with some of the era’s most noticeable and rising record companies such as Gennett Records, Paramount Records, and Okeh Records. From listening to the radio or at various venues, artists would pick up influence from other artists, taking their own twist on the tunes, style, and music to create subgenres of jazz, such as ragtime, as favored by Fletcher Henderson, and blues, as sung by Bessie Smith. These artists, furthermore, created music that spoke to America

  • Diffusion And Diffusion Experiment

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    Sixth: we will start to observe all breakers that will begin with diffusion. Seventh : we will use our stop watch to record how long it took for the copper sulphate to dissolute in all of the three beakers. In conclusion to the second experiment we saw that each beaker took from 7 to 18 minutes depending on the heat of the water. we saw that sample number 1 took 18 minuets

  • Jazz Albums as Art

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    to Say May Be Divided into Two Sections. Part One Surveys the General Topic of Album Art; Part Two (Outlined in the Accompanying Sidebar) Considers the Conspicuous Absence of Black Artists from the Process of Designing Jazz Packages: Covers, Liner Notes Etc. This Second Part Will Be Published in an Upcoming Issue.--R.G.O'M. The enclosed portfolio of album cover art springs from my ongoing concern with the emergence in the United States of a jazz culture that has affected not only virtually all

  • Three Basic Police Procedures

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    procedures would be Note taking, report writing and the preparation of from briefs. The procedures involve committing observations and facts to writing but are very different in their nature and purposes. This essay will define the basic note taking, reporting writing, and the methodology required to complete both as well as the outline of information required for a crown brief and how they differ. The first procedure would be note taking, note-taking is note taken down by an investigator

  • The Pros And Cons Of Electronic Health Records

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    An Electronic Health Record (EHR) is an electronic version of a patient medical history that is maintained by the patient’s healthcare provider over time (CMS.gov, 2012). EHRs are patient-centered records, making the information available instantly and secured. It can include all of the key administrative clinical data relevant to the patients care under a particular provider, including demographics, progress notes, problems, medications, vital signs, past medical history, immunization, laboratory

  • Miles Davis: Modern Improvisational Music

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    fertile, blues-drenched music scene of his hometown. The sensitive soul forging a seething streetwise exterior that later earned him the title, Prince Of Darkness. The determined teenager convincing his parents to send him to New York’s famed Juilliard School of Music in 1944, a ploy allowing him to locate and join the band of his idol, bebop pioneer Charlie Parker.

  • Rnb: Rhythm And Blues

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    RnB, abbreviated for rhythm and blues, is one of the most popular genre of African American music since the late 1940s during the end of World War II and the early 1960s. The earliest forms of the rhythm and blues and soul genres is from a combination of gospel, jazz, and the blues. This combination of music grew into becoming one of the most dominant forms of entertainment in the latter half of the 20th century, creating the groundwork for everything from rock music to funk to hip hop. From the