The premise of this work is that rock 'n' roll matters, and that it means what it says. It seems that rock 'n' roll music has seldom been given its due as an art form...
A History Paper-Rock n' Roll
Many people and many styles of music influenced Rock and Roll. The styles included Blues, Jazz, Gospel, Bluegrass, Boogie-Woogie, and Rockab...
The people of today, raised by the sounds of The Beatles and Pearl Jam have forgotten all about the musicians that paved the way for these artists, and the musical styles th...
The "Roaring Twenties," the "Jazz Age," the "Golden Age"; what happened in this decade that made it so "roaring, jazzy, and golden?" What made up the twenties? Known for fun...
Dizzy Gillespie was born as John Birks Gillespie on October 21, 1917 in Cheraw, South Carolina. "Dizzy was the youngest child in his household, and his fathe...
"I'd like to think that when I sing a song, I can let you know all about the heartbreak, struggle, lies and kicks in the ass I've gotten over the years for being black and...
Jazz Biography
Frankie Manning
Frankie Manning was born at Jacksonville, Florida in 1914. At a young age he moved to Harlem along with his mother who was also a dancer...
Reggae is the most internationally famous style of Caribbean music. Reggae, which is one of the world's most influential music, was originated in Jamaica around the mid 1960's...
Blues, work songs, ragtime, spirituals, and minstrel songs were, in their own ways, all part of the great "Africanization of American music" that was originated by enslaved...
Traditional pop or Classic pop or Standards music denotes, in general, Western (and particularly American) popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and rol...
The word "funk", once defined in dictionaries as body odor or the smell of sexual intercourse, commonly has been regarded as coarse or indecent. African-...
Imagine this: spring break 1962, Jamaica. You are strolling down the streets of
Kingston, enjoying the cool sea breeze and the delightful Caribbean climate.
The street...
The 1920s earned its name as "The Roaring Twenties." It was a time of great change, reform, improvement, adjustment and alteration. American life was speeding up. The people...
Quincy Delight Jones Jr.
Name at birth: Quincy Delight Jones, Jr.
Quincy Jones started as a trumpet player, touring with Lionel Hampton
in the early 1950s. He soon gai...