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Makiko Kinoshita And Her 9 Preludes For Piano: The Amalgam Of American Jazz And European Tradition, Mai Nagatomo

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance

Makiko Kinoshita is one of the leading contemporary composers in Japan. Kinoshita’s 9 Preludes (2001) is remarkable twenty-first century piano literature that provides abundant use of various musical styles. The most important style that Kinoshita combined with traditional Western writing is jazz; especially the rhythmic and harmonic language of Jazz music. This document provides a detailed analysis of Kinoshita’s unique treatments of form, tonality, harmony, rhythm, and motivic materials. The central section of this study employs musical examples in order to examine how Kinoshita fuses diverse elements of musical styles with modern musical language to create her own idiom. Along …

4th Treasures Of Jazz: Jazz Divas Of Cleveland And The Jazz Heritage Orchestra (2012), Evelyn Wright, Ki Allen, Jazz Heritage Orchestra, Cleveland State University, Dennis Reynolds, Black Studies Program, Cleveland State University, Michael R. Williams

Jazz Heritage Orchestra Programs

Cleveland jazz artists Evelyn Wright and Ki Allen perform with the CSU Jazz Heritage Orchestra.

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents The Marshall University Jazz Ensemble Big Band 12.0, Ed Bingham Dr.

Ed Bingham

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An Improvised World: Jazz And Community In Milwaukee, 1950-1970, Benjamin Barbera

Theses and Dissertations

This study looks at the history of jazz in Milwaukee between 1950 and 1970. During this period Milwaukee experienced a series of shifts that included a large migration of African Americans, urban renewal and expressway projects, and the early stages of deindustrialization. These changes had an impact on the jazz musicians, audience, and venues in Milwaukee such that the history of jazz during this period reflects the social, economic, and physical landscape of the city in transition.

This thesis fills two gaps in the scholarship on Milwaukee. First, it describes the history of jazz in Milwaukee in a more comprehensive …

Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Junior Recital Bryce Duncan, Saxophone, Bryce Duncan

All Performances

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Jazz 12.1, Martin Saunders

All Performances

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents The Marshall University Jazz Ensemble Big Band 12.0, Ed Bingham Dr.

All Performances

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents The Jomie Jazz Guest Artists Ryan Kennedy - Guitar, Phil Bowden - Bass, Sean Parsons, Ryan Kennedy, Phil Bowden

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Nasm Student Recital, Seth Skiles

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Marshall University Department Of Music Presents A Marshall University Jazz Ensembles Big Bands, Ed Bingham, Martin Saunders

All Performances

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Running Barefoot, Benjamin Marx

Senior Projects Spring 2012

I have been required by the registrar to submit an artist statement, and to be honest I do not know what I am supposed to say. If I am expected to explain a deep profound message about my music, I have none. And if I should to discuss the pieces in my concert, I would rather leave it up to the audience to figure out what the pieces mean to them. Now I am only on the cusp of my musical exploration. I have just this year glimpsed the vast world of music and begun to understand its endlessness. While …

Rich Matteson Biography (1929-1993), The Rich Matteson Foundation, Inc.

Rich Matteson’s Jazz Corner Radio Show

A brief biography of Rich Matteson