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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"John Coltrane"”.
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Expressing South African musical sensibilities In Jazz: the cultural relevance of John Coltrane and the musical impact of Mccoy Tyner
… explore the cultural and spiritual relevance of John Coltrane (1926- 1967) and the musical impact of McCoy “Alfred” Tyner (1938-2020) on two contemporary South African pianists, with a focus on the music of Afrika Mkhize and Nduduzo Makhathini, as well as an insider's perspective of this subject …
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Master's thesis recital (percussion)
… / Woody Shaw -- Juju / Wayne Shorter -- Naima / John Coltrane -- Bolivia / Cedar Walton -- Migrations / Chris Potter -- Fingerprints / Chick Corea.
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Doctoral thesis recital (double bass)
… -- One / James Hatfield-Lars Ulrich -- Alabama / John Coltrane -- What's going on? / Marvin Gaye.
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The new sound : a transcription and analysis of selected solos of Woody Shaw
… after his death. Like the great saxophone player John Coltrane, he liked to superimpose tonalities of his own choosing over the original tonality of the music.
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Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964.
… Ornette Coleman, <em>Free Jazz</em>; and John Coltrane, <em>A Love Supreme</em>. The study relies primarily on the aforementioned recordings, critics analysis of those recordings, and events that took place during the Civil Right Movement.</p> <p>The study concludes that these recordings …
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Graduate Recital, Piano
… standard tunes from influential artists such as John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Miles Davis, Steve Swallow, and others. The program will include both solo jazz arrangements for piano such as ‘Alone Together', ‘Quiet Now', and ‘Falling Grace' as well as jazz combo arrangements featuring drums, bass, …
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Charles Ruggiero's "Tenor Attitudes": An Analytical Approach to Jazz Styles and Influences
… Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, John Coltrane, Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, and Sonny Rollins. This document discusses the lives and careers of each of these musicians. It analyzes their personal histories, preferred genres, and styles in an attempt to aid performers in accurately …
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Cyclic Patterns in John Coltrane's Melodic Vocabulary as Influenced by Nicolas Slonimsky's Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns: An Analysis of Selected Improvisations
… cyclic patterns used as melodic vocabulary in John Coltrane's improvisations from compositions of 1965 to 1967. The analysis is categorized in two distinct sections. The first section analyzes melodic vocabulary that is derived from the cycle of descending major thirds progressions found in the …
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Markov Chains as Tools for Jazz Improvisation Analysis
… using transcriptions of improvised solos by John Coltrane in his song Giant Steps. Still considered as statistical data, the Markov chains are examined and information is extracted from them through the development of several statistical tools for musical analysis. Two general categories of …
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Imaginings of Africa in the music of Miles Davis
… as Africa. Like other jazz musicians such as John Coltrane, Davis also incorporated Indian musical styles and instruments alongside African and Afrodiasporic elements to reflect an affinity between Africa and India as part of the emerging Global South. After broadly describing African musical …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… represented by Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, and their followers in the sixties—and as a figure within a movement of African American avant-gardism. Through documentation and analysis of his musical materials and methods, the present work adds to the few studies attempting to …
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Improvising Resistance: Jazz, Poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, 1960–1969
This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of jazz music and poetry produced by African-American artists, primarily in New York, over the course of the 1960s, set within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the …