Film Analysis: The Year That Changed Jazz

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Video Documentary Report of “1959 The Year That Changed Jazz”

The documentary narrated by Kerry Shale discusses four major albums released in 1959 that not only pushed jazz to new heights, beauty, and groove but also changed music forever. The albums were Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus, and The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman. The documentary shows rarely seen archive performances, videos of events in U.S. history, and interviews with Dave Brubeck; Ornette Coleman; Charlie Haden, Coleman’s bassist; Herbie Hancock, pianist/ keyboarder later in Miles’ band; Joe Morello, Brubeck’s drummer; Jimmy Cobb, drummer for Miles; Ashley Kahn, Author of The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece; George Avakian, producer/executive at Columbia Records; Sue Mingus, Charles’ wife; Lorraine Gordon, Village Vanguard Jazz Club; Nat Hentoff, writer; Hal Willner and Lou Reed, hosts of New York Shuffle Radio Show. The documentary proclaims that this new Jazz reached the white …show more content…
This Los Angeles based improvisor played what he was feeling, not what was written. Ornette was not concerned with “cards mounted against the keys” (sheet music); instead, his only concern was the sound. He stated that only twelve notes were satisfying the world, but he created much more with his free jazz. Hal Willner and Lou Reed explain how “Lonely Woman” was different from previous jazz; it was not just one solo after another; instead, everyone was playing together, a real composition. When Ornette came to New York and played at the “The 5 Spot;” his free jazz influenced others and changed the style, the music, and the time signature; however, some critics thought his music was too random and chaotic. Ornette believed music should be the sound of your emotions, beliefs, abilities, and your love, not

Summary Of Poiger's Response To The Americanization Of German Youth Culture

East German journalists, politicians, sociologists, and psychologists to the Americanization of German youth culture in the 1950s. Focusing on Hollywood movies, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, Poiger discusses the class, gender, national, ethnic and racial anxieties that American cultural imports evoked and interweaves a documented discourse analysis with accounts and actions of youth at movie premiers and Elvis performances. Poiger shows that with news of each new influx of American music, movie and up to…

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George Gershwin Summertime Analysis

to listen to classical. In Summertime when you close your eyes it brings you to a time where anything could happen almost to fairytale, and has a calming effect. The following will help provide knowledge as to how Gershwin does this in a musical analysis. Why Gershwin made music in biographical way and how history effected his art. Biography Firstly, let us get to know George Gershwin as a child. As a child George Gershwin was the eldest middle brother of four, born on September 26th ,1898. George…

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Essay on Styles: 20th Century and Women

“Where has the romance gone”? In this paper I will discuss romance, glamour, and fashion. I will compare and contrast fashion trends throughout the twentieth century, all the way up to today’s fashion. I will also compare entertainment and how it has changed as well, and reflect upon society’s attitude towards the opposite sex, chivalry, and moral code. In terms of fashion, the early 1900’s really set the pace for the rest of the century. In the first decade of the twentieth century was very elegant…

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Final Elvis Paper

Alex Wagner Hobbs ENC 1101 30 November 2014 Critical Analysis: Elvis Presley “Before Elvis there was nothing” (Lennon). Before the 1950s, American music was conservative and based on family values. Most music was segregated by its ethnic groups, white and black. Like Lennon quoted, white music was nothing; it was boring and not distinctive until the King of Rock and Roll hit the charts. Elvis Presley brought a new style and beat, as well as a distinctive cultural, moral and social perspective…

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Mass Comm Tests Essay

2. Though sensational, yellow journalism had which positive feature? all of these 3. ___________ appeared during the Roaring Twenties and was epitomized by New York papers using a tabloid format with numerous photographs. jazz journalism 4. After World War II, an earlier trend toward newspaper consolidation continued, and by 1970 newspaper ______ accounted for the majority of newspaper circulation. chains 5. Recent declines in newspaper circulation…

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Gender Performance In The Media

several decades. Additionally, gender performance is commonplace in many of the movies we see. Popular films such as Tootsie, The Silence of the Lambs, Some Like it Hot, White Chicks, Boys Don’t Cry as well as many other mainstream movies are examples of gender performance as entertainment. Each of these films contains some aspect of gender performance, if not encapsulating the main focus of the film. Beyond these mass marketed forms of media is the essence of gender performance as entertainment; drag…

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