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  James Reese Europe & the Harlem Hellfighters – Jazz’s Forgotten Heroes

  Tuesday, Jan 6, 2015, 7:00 pmNational Jazz Museum in Harlemview event >
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  Jazz on Film: The Inimitable Clark Terry

  Tuesday, Jan 13, 2015, 7:00 pmMaysles Cinemaview event >
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  Joe Temperley Plays Ellington

  Tuesday, Jan 20, 2015, 7:00 pmNational Jazz Museum in Harlemview event >
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  Listening Session with Ted Nash

  Tuesday, Jan 27, 2015, 7:00 pmListening Session with Ted Nashview event >

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JAZZ NOTES

RAGTIME STYLE

At the end of the 19th century a new style of music became the rage. It was called RAGTIME.

It started in St. Louis and New Orleans from around 1895 where it was very popular in cafes and saloons.

Black musicians spread the music to other areas of the country. The music combined African rhythms with marching band music.  

Ernest Hogan was an innovator and key pioneer who helped develop the musical genre and is credited with coining the term Ragtime.

One of the most important ragtime musicians was Scott Joplin.  He started writing this new kind of music when he lived in Missouri.

In 1899 Joplin named his first "rag" song "The Maple Leaf Rag."  When the song was published, it became an instant success.

Ragtime started to fall out of favor around 1917 when JAZZ claimed the public's imagination.

For further details Google-search their names.

THE BLACK EXPERIENCE 102

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DID YOU KNOW ?... THIS PERSON , WHO WAS ONE OF THIRTEEN (13) CHILDREN, DIED IN AN AIRPLANE CRASH.

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CAN YOU NAME THAT PERSON?

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Answer to previous quiz (12/16) NAT TURNER

Nat Turner - COMMUNITY CREATOR

Nat Turner was born a slave in South Hampton, Virginia on October 2, 1800. He learned to read and write at an early age. Study of the bible was his primary source of knowledge and inspiration

    

Turner often preached the Bible to his fellow slaves, and conducted Baptist services by the wayside. His fellow slaves on the plantation dubbed him "the prophet," He also had an influence over white abolitionists who supported him.

Turner spent his lifetime in a plantation area in which the enslaved laborers made up the majority population. He was often identified by his peers as having "natural intelligence, and quickness of apprehension."

He was deeply religious, and was often seen fasting, praying, or immersed in reading the stories and laws of the scriptures. He frequently had visions which he interpreted as messages from God. These visions greatly influenced his life.

In 1828 Turner was convinced that he was "ordained for some great purpose in the  hands of the Almighty."

Early in the beginning months of 1831, Turner came to believe that certain changes in atmospheric conditions, were signs that he should start preparing for the  rebellion of slaves against their owners. 

Finally on August 2, 1831, Turner lead a rebellion of over 70 slaves and free Blacks that resulted in the deaths of over 60 white people.

 The revolt was suppressed in two days, and then hundreds of Blacks were hunted down and arrested; some of them had nothing to do with the rebellion.

Turner was captured around October 30, 1831, when he was discovered in an underground hideout by a white farmer. 

He was tried, convicted, and hung by the neck until dead on November 11th. 

As a result of "Nat Turner's Rebellion," Southern states passed stricter laws on the already harsh laws governing the institution of slavery to prevent further Black uprisings from occurring.

During the times after the rebellion, Blacks have come to regard Turner as a hero of resistance, who made slave-owners pay for the hardships they caused Black people to suffer..

Some historians believe that Nat Turner's rebellion marked the turning point in the Black struggle for liberation.

To read more on Nat Turner, Google-search his name.

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A LIVING JAZZ LEGEND

CLARK TERRY was born on December 14, 1920, in St. Louis. Missouri.

 He is a living jazz legend, and one of the most recorded musicians in jazz history, having played in over 900 sessions. Terry is a bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, an educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee. His career has spanned more than 70 years.

During that time he has played with the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Quincy Jones,  Charlie Barnet, and others. The great trumpeter Louis Armstrong was his mentor. Terry in turn, was the mentor of the legendary Miles Dewey Davis. Dizzy Gillespie, who played with Davis, once described Terry as the "greatest jazz trumpet player on earth."  

Terry received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010. At the age of 94 he is still going strong.

To read the ongoing bio of Clark Terry, Google-search his name.

Mae Jemison - COMMUNITY CREATOR

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Mae Jemison is a doctor and a NASA astronaut. She was the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle ENDEAVOR on September 12, 1992.

After graduating from Chicago's Morgan Park High School in 1973, she went on to Stanford University at the tender age of 16.

She graduated from Stanford in 1977 and received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering, as well as fulfilling the requirements for a B.A. in (African) Afro-American studies.

In 1981 Jemison obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell Medical College. She did her internship at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and later worked as a general practitioner in the California area.

After completing her medical training, Jemison volunteered as a Medical Officer in the Peace Corps, where she worked in Liberia and the Sierra Leone in Africa from 1983-85.

In 1987 Jemison applied for the astronaut program at NASA and was accepted.

As a Mission Specialist on STS-47, she flew her only mission in outer space in 1992, becoming the first Black woman to do so. She spent 8 days in space on a research mission with five other NASA astronauts.  In all, Jemison logged 190 hours, 30 minutes, and 23 seconds in outer space.

Jamison took several items into orbit with her, a few small art objects from West African countries to symbolize that space belongs to all nations, a poster of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company to indicate the connection between science and dance, and most notably, a picture of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to ever fly an airplane .

Jemison is currently an active public speaker who promotes science and technology, as well as providing inspirational and educational messages for young people.

To read about her life and career, Google-search her name and hang on for an incredible ride!

 

THE BLACK EXPERIENCE 102

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DID YOU KNOW THAT...


THIS LAY PREACHER LED A VIRGINIA SLAVE REVOLT IN 1831.

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CAN YOU NAME THAT PERSON?

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Answer to previous quiz (10/29)  MAE JEMISON

JAZZ EVENTS - NEW YORK CITY

Tuesday, December 2nd 'Kind of Blue' Jazz for Curious Listeners 7:00-8:30pm   $10.00 Suggested Admission   Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C This seminal 1959 recording captured trumpeter/conceptualist Miles Davis' sextet with three young stars who would soon help set the direction for the next decade: saxophonists John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, as well as the pianist Bill Evans. The material they played was based on a handful of chords, and simple melodies and the magic they spun out of them still captivates, almost 60 years later. Of all the jazz albums ever recorded, this one is rated by most as being the first one to play for a curious listener. Join the Facebook event here.

Tuesday, December 9th 'Satch plays W.C. Handy' Jazz for Curious Listeners 7:00-8:30pm   $10.00 Suggested Admission   Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C In the 1920's, Louis Armstrong recorded the music that set the style for jazz for the 20th century. That didn't stop him from creating masterpieces for the rest of his career, which lasted for another four decades. One of the highlights among highlights is this 1954 album that Satchmo made with his AllStars, looking back at the man who first introduced the blues to the world at large - W.C. Handy. If there were only to be one recording placed into a time capsule as to what the blues meant to the world, this could by well be it.   Join the Facebook event here.

Tuesday, December 16th 'Monk's Mood' Jazz for Curious Listeners 7:00-8:30pm   $10.00 Suggested Admission   Location: The National Jazz Museum in Harlem 104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C The piano is an inanimate object and a member of the percussion family. Very few pianists have been able to sculpt a completely new sound when playing it, and chief among those who have is Thelonious Monk. By virtue of a unique technique and touch, Monk made the piano do things no one else ever thought of before, and that no one has been able to duplicate. After years of obscurity, he recorded this album in 1957, bringing together a band of giants, including drummer Art Blakey, bassist Wilbur Ware, and the Alpha and Omega of the jazz saxophone for the only time: Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane. Every note sounds as though it was sculpted in marble. This will be a night to remember as we revel in these joyful sounds.   Join the Facebook event here.

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JAZZ NOTES

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THE INSTRUMENTS OF JAZZ

Many of the earliest jazz groups derived their instrumentation from the 

European brass band model that included trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, and tuba. Some of the bands in the earliest groups of New Orleans, used violin, guitar, bass, and occasionally, cornet or clarinet. These instruments and the style they played were basically European.

The Black fraternal bands that were plentiful in turn-of-the century New Orleans used  European brass band instrumentation, as they played marches and the pop tunes of the day for parades, picnics, funerals and dances.

As time went on most jazz groups began to include a drummer, who played a set of assorted instruments and provided almost continuous timekeeping sounds, as well as generating musical excitement.

Jazz has been played by solo pianists; by pianists in duo with cornet, with clarinet, with string bass; by piano with the accompaniment of string bass and drums; by quasi-brass bands of from five to eight pieces; by quartets and quintets of horns plus rhythm; by "big bands" of twelve to eighteen pieces, and by entire orchestras.

The instruments of jazz, as you can see are varied. A typical group of jazz musicians may have more or less of these as is necessary for their performance. Their main objective is to entertain. The music they play is presented in settings as varied as the instruments they use: concert halls, ballrooms, restaurants, night clubs, and coffee houses, just to name a few.

Jazz is played in hundreds of schools, universities and conservatories and has evolved into a fine and delicate art. It requires the musicians to create the parts they play with their instruments as they are playing them. This makes for excitement because the players are creating something unique in our very presence, and taking us along with them , involving us in the action of making up fresh sounds with their instruments.