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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Miles Davis"”.
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Miles Davis: The Road to Modal Jazz
The fact that Davis changed his mind radically several times throughout his life appeals to the curiosity. This thesis considers what could be one of the most important and definitive changes: the change from hard bop to modal jazz. This shift, although gradual, is best represented by and …
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The pragmatic constructions of Deleuze, Guattari and Miles Davis
… and work of the African-American jazz musician Miles Davis. In attempting to provide a new and challenging case as the basis for this investigation, the overriding aim is to assess the pragmatic remit of Deleuze and Guattari's thought, in terms of aesthetics, ethics and politics, whilst …
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Imaginings of Africa in the music of Miles Davis
… the African influence reflected in the music of Miles Davis, a musician scantly recognized in this area of jazz scholarship. Using Norman Weinstein’s concept of “imaginings,” I identify myriad ways in which Davis imagined Africa in terms of specific musical qualities as well as in his choice of …
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Hearing Miles Davis: A Pedagogy of Autobiographical Performance and Jazz
… to my solo autobiographical performance, Miles away from "The Cool," in which I present my autobiographical and musical reading of the autobiography of trumpet player Miles Davis, Miles. This performance and my research regarding the music, life story, and cultural significance of Davis …
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Radiohead's subterranean jazz structuralism: the music of Louis Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus in ten compositions by Radiohead
… to a detailed design guided by Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Alice Coltrane, and Charles Mingus. Above this transition through modeling, critics and journalists responded positively, as their reputation changed from being a ""Nirvana-lite"" grunge band to ""Re-Inventors of rock,"" as described by …
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Doctoral thesis recital (jazz guitar)
All blues / Miles Davis -- Four / Miles Davis -- Flower / Gilad Hekselman -- Seven steps to heaven / Miles Davis -- Nowhere man / John Lennon, Paul McCartney -- Milestones / Miles Davis.
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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
… on the important influence of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman. Chapter headings include: Literature Review and Methodology; Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Ornette Coleman: Converging Influences; Analysis: Coltrane's Major Thirds Harmonic Cycles Used as Melodic Vocabulary; …
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The Beaten Pathos
… a handful of poems are muted and cool (like Miles Davis' trumpet), and, consequently, more direct in their expression of the poet's emotional vulnerability. Whether the poems in this manuscript are of the miter-saw or trumpet variety, their speakers--although frequently not equipped to do …
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COMPARING TRADITIONAL AND MODERN TRENDS IN JAZZ IMPROVISATION
… each tune, including performances by Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Paul Desmond, Herbie Hancock, Yohan Kim, and Cory Henry. The older transcriptions showcase classic chord-scale relations, diatonic chord harmony, consistent rhythms with spacious phrasing, and recalled material. The newer transcriptions …
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Graduate Recital, Piano
… 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, and trumpet. The jazz music …
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Me, Myself, and Mingus
… classical music and the early fusion works of Miles Davis."
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
… Young, Jim Hall, Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, and Steve Lacy, are master communicators; their ability to craft a “message” and communicate effectively and persuasively is reflected in their significant use of rhetorical figures in these improvisations. These six analyses show how a …
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Playing outside : excursions from the tonality in jazz improvisation
… strategies employed by Robert Irvin- III on Miles Davis albums ''Decoy" (1984) and "You're Under Arrest' (1985). These strategies are shown to have spatial origins. but to be generally employed in order to maximise the contrast between adjacent chain elements against the underlying tonality. …
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Breaking down the silos: tales from a jazz musician and management educator
… how iconic trumpeter and thought-leader – Miles Davis – has and continues to be a major influence on my professional practice. This context statement examines how his musicianship and creativity has inspired a body of my public works – from metaphor, to leadership, to challenging the art …
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… jazz theory and culture—often 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 …