Django Reinhardt

My mother does not play any instrument but enjoys listening to the classical guitar. She says it is relaxing, beautiful and elegant and she enjoys listening to it in the evening and while driving. Her favorite type of music now are alternative rock, classic rock and big band music. She enjoys music that is not main stream as it feel more artistic and original. Much of her love for big band came from listening to Django Reinhardt. His impressive guitar playing and upbeat feeling captured her attention. After listening to his songs she branched out to all big band. She feels the light and airy sound of the music is easy to listen to all throughout the day. Her favorite band is still U2, she enjoys all there albums and enjoys their whole hearted lyrics. The lead singer Bono is one of her favorite celebrities as he is very humble and does significant charity work. Overall, she enjoys music today but likes it to be easy to listen…

and Django Reinhardt, who claimed that they could play just as well as American jazz musicians. Ray Ventura, born in Paris in 1908, was a French jazz bandleader. In the 1920’s, he played as a pianist in a group called the Collegiate Five, who later became Ray Ventura's Collegians. After Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940, Ventura dissolved his orchestra, because he was in danger as a result of his Jewish ancestry. They later reassembled and toured Southern France, Rio de Janeiro, Uruguay and…

Often the characters are created as stark symbols to direct your focus to the world he has created. - Haruki Murakami’s short stories cross the boundaries of Japanese culture, and are often surreal. In music, I listen to anything from the sound of jazz greats (Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, big bands) to the heavy beats and amazing vocals of Korean Pop (Crush, Flowsik and Geeks). Finally, my list would be incomplete without my love for radio shows. As a child, I had…

was influenced by jazz musicians from the 1940s. From the musicians he learned many many technical skills, and then mastered these, then they slowly mutated into his own sound. The 5th Beatle, George Martin influenced King by playing his guitar with the rest to the Beatles's. Influenced by Lester Young to play and sing differently, but instead of playing the guitar he plays the tenor saxophone (McGee, 2005). Riley King learned from a few different blues, and jazz musicians, a few are T-Bone…

musicians, including Joe “King” Oliver and Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, brought jazz out of New Orleans where it started and into northern cities such as Chicago and New York. In 1922, Oliver started one of the first big bands: the Creole Jazz Band. This group demonstrated a specific sound featuring a “two-cornet lead” (Howes, Slovey). Armstrong was the second cornetist for the group behind Oliver himself. The band performed pieces including “Just Gone” (1923) featuring Oliver and Armstrong on…

changing their answers, both characters try to achieve certain equilibrium as they become parallel with each other. Setting the reader in a more liberal era, Betty portrays a self-thinking, valuable woman that serves as identity to all independent women at the time. For instance, when Bill gives a positive opinion about Faulkner’s works and she simply says, “I think it’s pretty boring”(Ives, 1). Additionally, Betty speaks her mind out after Bill shows to be interested in her; part of her…

the genre take hold in Delta Blues and early Rock n’ Roll. One major influence on the styles of metal was a man named Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson was an African-American born in 1911 in the state of Mississippi. Growing up as an extremely poor black child in Mississippi, Robert did not have a terribly good childhood. Learning to play the guitar and sing the blues was about all that was known about him. One of the most famous rumors surrounding the mystery who is Robert Johnson, was that he…