...Miles Davis-Dark Prince, one of the well-known jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, virtuoso started in bebop, went on to pioneer multiple styles of jazz. He was born on 25 May,1926 and grew up in black middle class of East S t Louis. Before enter to the jazz society, he was study at Juilliard School of Music on 1944. His albums 'Kind of Blue', 'Bitches Brew' and 'Birth of Cool' are considered to among the best selling jazz albums in history. The album “Birth of cool” which developed the cool jazz. In this study the aim is focused on the reason that influence Miles Davis to create cool jazz and the impact of cool jazz towards the creation of Modal Jazz. As for cool jazz, we should start of with bebop era. Bebop is a form of jazz with the fast tempo, changing time signature and throbbing bass.On the top, we mentioned about that Miles Davis moved to New York City study at Juilliard school after graduation from high school, but the reason why he want to moved to New York is because there is a hottest jazz scene in the country and he could listen and learn bebop from jazz greats like saxophonist Charlie Parker, and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. When he arriving in New York, he spent most of his first weeks in town trying to get in contact with Charlie Parker, despite being advised against doing so by several people he met during his quest. On the early, he playing was sometimes tentative and not always fully in tune, unique, intimate tone and his fertile musical imagination...
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...One of my favorite trumpet players is Miles Davis. Miles Davis, "American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer was one of the major influences on the art from the late 1940s." Miles Davis was, and still is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time. His style and smoothness on the trumpet caught the ears of many people. Miles Davis was born in Alton, Illinois., on May 26, 1926. For most of Miles's life he was raised in East St. Louis in an upper middle class family. Before Davis got interested into music he liked sports a lot. He loved playing baseball, football, boxing, and basketball. The first trumpet he received was in his preteen years. He practically fell in love with it the first time he played it. Davis liked to play in his high school band and in R&B bands. In 1942 Miles married his wonderful wife, Irene. In July of 1944 he sat in with Billy Eckstine and his band, where he met his life long idols, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the fall, Miles goes to New York to attend Juilliard School of Music. "I spent my first week in NY and my first month's allowance looking for Charlie "Bird" Parker. Later I roomed with Parker for a year and followed him around down to 52nd street. Every night I'd write down chords, on matchbook covers. Next day, I'd play these chords, all day in the practice rooms at Juilliard, instead of going to classes." "Instead of taking classes he hooked up with Bird, playing in his quintet...
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...The Green Miles is an American drama film directed by Frank Darabont and based on the 1996 Stephen King novel of the same name. The film follows the story of Paul Edgecomb and his life as a prison officer on Death Role during the Great Depression. One day, an African-American prisoner named John Coffey arrives on death role charged for raping and murdering two white young girls. Although John is a gigantic muscular man, he has the mindset of a small child and demonstrates attributes of being developmentally challenged. John often cries, keeps to himself, and fears darkness. When John was brought to his cell, he does not mention his crime, but continually emphasizes that he “tried to take it back, but it was too late”. As the movie progresses, it is revealed that John has extraordinary powers. One day when all the other officers were gone, John asks to speak to Paul. When Paul moves toward John’s cell, John grabs Paul and puts his hand over Paul’s groin. The light suddenly flares brightly, and John lets go coughing and gasping until he releases a cloud of spores from his mouth. Paul demanded to know what happened, but John only say that he helped. When Paul goes to the restroom, he realizes that his urinary infection was cured by John’s act. Later on in the movie, John also resurrects Del’s pet mouse Mr. Jingles, and heals Warden’s terminally ill wife. At the same time, a new guard named Percy Wetmore starts to work at John’s prison domain. He is a sadistic and is very unpopular...
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...Since the age of 12, Miles Davis’s life was driven by his passion and love of music. Born in 1926 into a middle-class home, Miles Davis had the opportunity to take his first trumpet lesson from a family friend named Elwood Buchanan. When he was not taking lessons, Davis spent his time practicing relentlessly and studying complex concepts of music theory (Frankl, 21). Miles Davis took advantage of his musical resources and eventually became an iconic jazz trumpeter and bandleader. As an active jazz musician for over 50 years, Miles Davis was able to contribute a stylistically diverse body of music compositions to the jazz community and the world (Gridley, 261). Miles Davis impacted the development of modern jazz by creating a novel trumpet playing style, producing numerous noteworthy recordings and spreading his enthusiasm and appreciation for jazz music. Miles Davis’s colorful trumpet style and sound was very distinct and unique. Thus, many other trumpet players during the cool and hard bop periods admired Davis sound and were influenced by it. Davis was known to use a Harmon mute without the stem in order to soften the instrument’s loud sound down to an intimate whisper (Frankl, 14). At the Newport Jam Session in 1955, Davis became highly recognized for his Harmon mute solo in the song “Round Midnight.” His improvisation had a beautiful sound conveyed a sense of sadness and loss (Frankl, 14). In addition to producing beautiful sounds with his trumpet, Davis used periods of...
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...IAll Blues General Points - Comes from the album 'Kind of Blue' - The band is a 'sextet' consisting of a front line and a rhythm section. - The album was recording with next to no rehearsal and the musicians have no score, they were told only the following things: Structure, basic chord sequence, main melodic idea and which mode or scale to improvise on. Instrumentation The band consists of 2 different sections, the front line and the rhythm section. In the front line there is: - Miles Davis on trumpet. - Julian Adderly on the alto sax. - John Coltrane on the tenor sax. In the rhythm section there is: - Bill Evans on on piano. - Paul Chambers on bass. - Jimmy Cobb on the drums. Structure - 'All Blues' is based on a 12 bar blues progression. - The main melody is called the head and is played by the trumpet and is heard at the start and end of the piece. Miles Davis Melody - The head melody is quite simple and is characterized by a rising 6th (from D to B). The head is then followed by 4 solos. - Trumpet: Lasts for four choruses and is made up of short syncopated motifs. - Alto Sax: Lasts for four choruses and uses quicker notes and a wider range than the trumpet. - Tenor Sax: Lasts for four choruses and uses fast scales and quick runs. It's very virtuosic. - Piano: Lasts for 2 choruses. This is a much calmer improvisation that the others with a simple melody and a string of parallel chords. Harmony and Tonality - The piece is in G Major but has a flattened...
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...The Green Mile is a fantasy film made in 1999, starring Tom Hanks (Paul Edgecomb) and Michael Clarke Duncan (John Coffey). Edgecomb is a guard working in a prison that is filled with convicted murderers and rapists that are sent to 'The Green Mile' to wait for the day of their execution. The prison is turned upside down when Coffey comes there. He is a huge man that everyone fears, although he would never hurt a fly. He was sent to prison for a crime he did not commit: murder and rape of two young girls. Everyone avoids him because they are scared of him, but they soon realize that he is a very special man who possesses the ability to cure dead and dying people and animals by taking away their sickness and transforming it into his own. He is very simple and kind which we can deduce from his request addressed to Edgecomb: ‘’ Do you leave a light on after bedtime? Because I get a little scared in the dark sometimes. If it's a strange place.'' We immediately realize that he could never hurt anyone, which is exactly the opposite of the first impression we get when we first meet this giant. The choice of actors was done brilliantly; no other actor I can think of would have made such a strong effect on the audience. The film is an adaptation of one of Stephen King’s books and having read some of them, I know that sometimes King’s characters are strange and very hard to come by in real life or mimic, but here the perfect actor was chosen. Also the role of Edgecomb was filled perfectly...
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...Crook vs. Miles Name Institution Crook vs. Miles It is quite apparent that Crook’s approach of fighting Geronimo was very different from Gen. Miles’ approach. According to the writer, General Crook’s approach to fighting Geronimo could not have succeeded even in the long-run. General Crook used unorthodox methods of attacking his enemies by sending out his troops for attack each time he wanted to confront Geronimo and his hostiles. During his tenure, Crook lost most of his troops in battles. Many homes in Arizona and New Mexico were raided, many US citizens killed and their horses stolen y Geronimo’s hostiles (Winning the West, n.d). It is no wonder that he was deceived by Geronimo that he (Geronimo) would surrender, only to bolt out of their encampment and flee back into Mexico. Therefore, Cook’s continued pursuit of Geronimo would only result in a cat and mouse game where most of troops and civilians would have lost their lives through attack and counter-attack. Crook’s failure had severe consequences on the relationship between the two states. Many civilians had lost their lives through raids and counter-attacks. Besides, the Mexican troops mistaken Apache scouts for hostiles and opened fire on them, mortally injuring most of them, including Captain Crawford. On the other hand, his successor-Nelson Miles- used a more strategic approach in pursuing and capturing Geronimo. He reorganized the department and dismissed the apache scouts, strategically...
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...From 1960 to 1963 Miles took a short vacation, but sure enough he came back well rested and better than ever. One year later he had brilliant players such as Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams playing in his rhythm section. Together they brought forth the invention of Funky Soul Jazz with George Coleman as the tenor, which Wayne Shorter later came to replace. Very predictable of Miles, he changed his style again, this time a unique mix between Hard Bop and Free Jazz. After this movement was fully established by Miles, surprisingly enough, he changed again, he just could not keep a straight pace. He brought in Chick Corea, electric keyboards, and doubled up sopranos as rock influenced his new style better known as Fusion. Two...
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...Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis became two of the most inspiring American jazz musicians of all time by accessing very differently to their art. In the analysis an album from each artist, I choose “What A Wonderful World” of Louis Armstrong and “Kind of Blue” of Miles Davis. Louis Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) was the most influential performer to affect a lot of Jazz musicians. He influenced the whole jazz population with his amazing voice and energetic trumpet. And he played a great role in the modernization of jazz. His career spanned almost 50 years, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different jazz eras. The work of Louis Armstrong summed up the achievements of New Orleans jazz style and indicated the way to the later...
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...The Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident The Three Mile Island nuclear reactor meltdown accident is one of the most notable commercial nuclear power station reactor accidents to have occurred in the United States (Walker, 2004). Metropolitan Edison Co. operated the plant. On 28th March 1978, one of the nuclear reactors in the plant (TMI-2) suffered a partial meltdown, resulting in the emission of mild radioactive elements into the environment (Walker, 2004). What ensued was legal action by PANE, trying to stop the reopening of the nuclear plant stating that it would result to “severe psychological trauma to residents of nearby towns” (Gary & Rosen, 2003). The reopening of the plant would have had significant effects on the area resident’s psychological health, wellbeing, and the area community’s cohesiveness and stability. Reopening the plant would have led to the area residents having to live with trauma and fear. Immediately after the incident, the federal government ordered the evacuation of all children and pregnant women from within a 5 mile radius of the Three Mile Island Facility. A day later, the federal government increased the radius to 20 miles (Osif, Baratta & Conkling, 2004). More than 140,000 people had to vacate their homes temporarily because of the incident. This had an impact on the area resident’s state of psychological health. Even after they had moved back from the voluntary evacuation, they had to live in constant fear that there might be another nuclear...
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...Nicole Ghantous 26677096 Reading 6: Miles In this article, Chin and Benne are two important figures that highlight three different methods of change in social and organizational environments. These meta-approaches are recognized by rational empirical, normative-reeducative, and power coercive. Those change management strategies were well studied, in order to plan and implement a new framework for the future. The strategies were mainly based on the theories of focus of change. Rational empirical is defined as when individuals are rational and will mainly shadow their self-interest, at the moment it will be exposed to them. This strategy is mostly based on information. Indeed, the leader will gather and present important and valuable information to obtain the desired change. The people who are exposed to change, will chose the action that is suggested by the information gathered. Power coercive is based on individuals who are under the pressure of an authority and are normally told what to do. The leader uses his power to bring change. This change management strategy brings peer pressure and presents a threat and/or a use of ridicule amongst the individuals of the group. By decreasing people’s option, success is mainly covered by control of rewards and punishments as a way to engage change. Normative reeducative is when individuals are social beings and will stick to cultural norms and values. More specifically, the leader will search for change with a consensus approach...
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...The Three Mile Island Accident changed America largely. The accident happened on March 28, 1979. It all started when reactor number 2 began to melt down. It was caused by many malfunctions. Although, the weirdest part of the meltdown was that a movie called “The China Syndrome.” The movie was about a nuclear meltdown. The 2 things go together nearly perfect. There are many similarities and differences between the accident and the movie. The following will be about info on The Three Mile Accident, “The China Syndrome”, and how the accident could change the future of America. The Three Mile Island accident was a nuclear meltdown in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania. The cause of the partial meltdown was first that the a failure the non-nuclear secondary system. Then the pilot-operated relief valve got stuck open in the primary system. That allowed a lot of nuclear coolant to leak out into the environment. The meltdown released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine. This all began at 6:57 am. The amount of radiation was not extremely bad. At least not as...
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...On March 28th of 1979 the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor had a partial meltdown in the second reactor unit. The 880-megawatt reactor, located on an island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania began its meltdown around 4 am while operating near full capacity (Makhijani, Arjun, Max Schulz, and Brice Smith). In The Fold, J.S.S says “A misreading by one of the engineers on duty compounded by equipment and instrument malfunctions led to a loss of coolant from the reactor core”. By this he means that this partial meltdown was caused by human error and faulty technology as well as a combination of the two. Faulty technology is where the accident began. The cooling pump failed, which caused the turbine and the reactor in unit number two to shut down...
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...costs of an intermediate size vehicle in the year 2000 averaged $.469/mile. This number is broken down into 8 different costs per mile: 1. Repairs- 0.9 cents 2. Depreciation- 16.4 cents 3. Fuel Tax – 1.9 cents 4. Fuel Cost- 4.2 cents 5. Financing- 7.0 cents 6. Maintenance- 2.3 cents 7. State Fees- 1.4 cents 8. Insurance- 12.7 cents (Our Nations Highways). After finding this data my next objective was to determine how many miles an average customer drives in an hour. To be specific, my main demographic was the college-educated individual since they were the most receptive to the car sharing idea. With this detail in mind, it was important to find data regarding the amount of miles an hour a college student may drive. I created this number by using the amount of miles a college student drives on a daily basis and multiplied it by the average cost per mile, which was 46.9 cents. To represent the amount of miles by a college student, I discovered data that shows that the average college student drives 20.3 miles a day (Our Nations Highways). I multiplied this number by 46.9 then divided it by 100 to get the exact dollar amount. This number came to approximately $9.54. However, to be more precise, the cost per hour for a Zipcar would be even more depending on the size of the car. For example, for a large party of customers, a mini-van may be needed. According to the FHWA, it costs 50.7 cents per mile (Our Nations Highways). When this is multiplied by $20.3 and divided...
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...If someone travels a distance d in time t, then the person’s average speed is Use this fact to solve the problem. 1. A driver travels at 50 mph for the first hour and then travels at 70 mph for the second hour. What is the average speed of the car? 2. A bicyclist rides 1 mile uphill at 5 mph and then rides 1 mile downhill at 10 mph. Find the average speed of the bicyclist. Does your answer agree with what you expected? 3. At a 3-mile cross-country race an athlete runs 2 miles at 8 mph and 1 mile at 10 mph. What is the athlete’s average speed? 4. A pilot flies an airplane between two cities and travels half the distance at 200 mph and the other half at 100 mph. Find the average speed of the airplane. A Puzzle About Coins Suppose that seven coins look exactly alike but that one coin weighs less than any of the other six coins. If you have only a balance with two pans, devise a plan to find the lighter coin. What is the minimum number of weighings necessary? Explain your answer. Yards to Inches There are 36 inches in 1 yard. Write a formula that converts Y yards to I inches. 34. Checking Account The initial balance in a checking account is $468. Find the final balance resulting from the following sequence of withdrawals and deposits: 2$14, $200, 2$73, 2$21, and $58. 35. Acid Solution How much of a 4% acid solution should be added to 150 milliliters of a 10% acid solution to dilute it to a 6% acid solution? 36. Bank Loans An individual has two low-interest ...
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