On January 10th, 1924, or January 8th, 1925, in Newland, North Carolina, Max Roach was born. Roach had died at the age of eighty three on August 16th, 2007. You may be asking, who was Max Roach and what has he done that caught my attention? Max Roach was not only an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer, he was and is still now an inspiration to many musicians. Most people these days think that the music that is listened to today just came up as an idea in someone’s head, or it magically popped out of nowhere. But what not many people knew, was that all of this type of music was originated from musicians from the 1940’s or 50’s. One of the many creators of this type of music was a jazzy bebop drummer named Max Roach. Bebop is a …show more content…
One of his most important innovations came in the 1940s. Max Roach and another jazz drummer named Kenny Clarke had devised a new concept of musical time. They had figured out a way for the soloists to play freely. Instead of playing four on the floor, they had played the beat-by-beat pulse of a standard 4/4 time on the sizzling ride cymbal. This had also given the drummers some space for comping on the snare drum or playing around the drums at any time. Roach had also figured out a new way to solo by using any tunes melody. Sometimes, he had shifted the dynamic from one part of his drum set to another inside a single phrase, creating “a sense of tonal color and rhythmic surprise.” Roach had once observed “In no other society, do they have one person play with all four limbs.” A jazz critic named Burt Korall once said about Max Roach, is that he develops “a highly responsive, contrapuntal style, engaging his fellow musicians in an open-ended conversation while maintaining a rock-solid pulse.” Roach thought the drum set has much more of a meaning than keeping the beat. He saw himself as a full-fledged member of the front line, not simply as a supporting player. Most of those approaches are common today, but when Clarke and Roach had first introduced the new style in the 1940s, it was a huge musical advance. Jazz historian Burt Korall once wrote in the Oxford Companion to Jazz, "When Max Roach's first records with Charlie …show more content…
Max Roach had had a family. Two children with his first marriage, Mildred Roach in 1949, a boy and a girl. His son’s name was Daryl Keith Roach, and his daughter’s name was Maxine Roach. He had continued to study composition at the Manhattan school of music until he graduated in 1952. In 1958 he met a singer named Barbara Jai (Johnson) and he had fathered another son, Raoul Jordu. Roach was married for the third time to Janus Adams Roach and had twin daughters in 1971, Ayodele Nieyela and Dara Rashida. Max Roach had become a grandfather and had four grandchildren, Kyle Maxwell Roach, Kadar Elijah Roach, Maxe Samiko Hinds, and Skye Sophia Sheffield. In 1972 Max Roach was enlisted to the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst by Chancellor Randolph
Ronald Gene Simmons was born July 15, 1940 in Chicago IL. His parents were Loretta and William Simmons, Loretta later remarried again, this time to William D. Griffin, a civil engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His father, William later died of a stroke. On September 15,1957 Ronald dropped out of school and join the Navy and was the first stationed at Naval Station Bremerton were he met his lovey l wife Rebecca they got married in New Mexico on July 9,1960 and later they had seven kids and after that he left the navy and joined the Air Force. After Ronald Gene Simmons retired from the military he was searched by the Department of Human Services because he sexualy abused his daughter Sheila and had a baby with her.
The main chamber of Leake County announced what might be a new tradition of naming a grand marshall for the Christmas parade. Russel Baty, who is the chamber director, has made up in his mind that Rev. Marcus Mann will be the grand marshall. Rev. Marcus Mann is a native of Carthage, he attended school at South Leake High School where he was a good basketball player and was a very smart student. He graduated at the top of his class and was a top five basketball player in Mississippi. He went to college at East Central Community College (ECCC) and Mississippi Valley State University.
This is a passage about one of the first basketball players to ever set foot on a basketball court. He was a great hero during the Civil Rights Movement. His name was a great inspiration to African Americans all over the U.S. during the movement. He was born on March 31, 1923 in a town that most of you are probably familiar with, Oakland, California.
Jazz began to divide during the war into two musical philosophies: traditional jazz "Revivalism" and modern jazz, known as bebop. In New York, where youthful creatives like Gillespie, created new revolutionary methods, the name "bebop" was first used. Charlie Parker, a player of the alto saxophone, was Bebop's most renowned icon along with Gillespie. Complex, quick-paced melodic lines, fresh rhythmic concepts, adventurous harmonic improvisation techniques, and ferocious instrumental prowess characterized the music. Bebop evolved into a variety of current jazz forms after the war.
Cole Ross Mrs. Hitchcock Language Arts 2 February 2023 A jazz musician who changed the world Who was the most outstanding jazz musician of all time? Louis Armstrong defined what it was like to play jazz. His outstanding skills still dominate in today's music. Louis Armstrong is considered to have some of the best pieces of his time.
In this paper, I plan to examine the influences that Miles Davis had on jazz. Starting with the bebop era, when his career first began, to his final collaboration released following his death. While in school Davis had learned how to play the trumpet, and following graduation he attended Julliard in New York. However, he dropped out of Julliard in 1945 in order join one of bebop’s pioneers, Charlie Parker. It was
Thus rebelling against the existing structures in the jazz world. The first notable style “bebop” was so difficult for white musicians to copy and too intricate for dancing, forced audiences to sit up and listen and take note of who and what was being played. It was an underground movement not seeking commercial success but rather seeking another type of gratification, self expression. The musicians development of the improvised solo was a crucial vehicle for their self expression and the key feature of the style. Jazz being one of the few public forums for African American self expression, allowed musicians a platform to speak to their audiences and to transcend the barriers they faced in society.
Initially, bebop jazz was characterized by significantly more complex chord progressions and melodies with a strong focus on the rhythm section. Although the irregular and unpredictable lengths of solos and increased sophistication made the music less suitable for dancing, it was nonetheless entertaining. Jazz had gained higher respect from a widestream audience, as it was no longer just dance music. Bebop lasted well into the 1950s, and the next stylistic revolution came during the revolutionary decade of the 1960s: fusion. Jazz fusion came into fruition when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.
Rough Beginnings It was 1915 and the music scene was just getting hot. New Orleans was busting at the seam with young cats prowling the streets, lurking in seedy after-hours clubs looking to get a wild jam session in before the night was through. An insanely talented and equally arrogant ragtime pianist by the name of Jelly Roll Morton began to play with a different kind of flavor that drove audiences crazy, and with that the invention of Jazz was born. The heavy syncopated beats making your pulse jump, the bluesy lilt of a melody lapping lazily at your senses; this was the time to be alive.
David Venable bio David Venable is an American Television personality who is best known for hosting the QVC show called In the Kitchen. She is active in the industry since 1993. According to David Venable bio, he holds an American nationality and he belongs to white ethnicity. He is also known for selling over a half million copies of his cookbooks which consists of 150 top recipes for yummy foods.
Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big
Joseph Saddler, also known as Grandmaster Flash, was born in Bridgetown Barbados and grew up in Bronx New York. In his earlier days, Joseph Saddler was a very talented electrician who used his skills to evolve DJ’ing. He improved the turntable to create specific sounds that were uncommon at his time and changed hip hop forever by becoming the industry standard. Grandmaster Flash changed hip hop by using turntables to create new DJ techniques and inventions that produced new and distinct sounds that influenced many current and past DJ’s.
Overall, Dizzy Gillespie helped form the beginning of Rock & Roll with his early jazz and Be-Bop ways. Dizzy Gillespie made a substantial impact on music history because he was an African American performing popular tunes that were soon going to help form early Rock & Roll. Dizzy Gillespie helped popularize jazz music with his original style of voice and instrumental sounds. Salt Peanuts was a memorable song during its time due to the fact jazz was at its hit point and Dizzy used techniques in this song such as repetitive music and long jazz solos.
John Opstad’s The Harmonic and Rhythmic Language of Herbie Hancock’s 1970s Fender Rhodes Solos (2009) examines Hancock’s Fender Rhodes solos to figure out how he used electric keyboard as a main instrument. Kevin Fellezs’s Between Rock and A Jazz Place: Intercultural Interchange