Harrison Ridley Jr. authority on jazz
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Harrison Ridley Jr. authority on jazz
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com 215-854-5573 HARRISN Ridley Jr. was perhaps the city’s leading authority on jazz. But he never used the term. He would say "this music referred to as jazz" or simply "the positive music. "But if anyone knew more about this kind of music whatever you want to call it they haven’t stepped forward. As the 32-year host of "The Historical Approach to the Positive Music" program Sundays from 8 p.
Mind of music
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Music and wordsKeniston said there are definite similarities between language and music. Some psychologists suggest the same areas of the brain are stimulated during both and both follow rules. Language has diction and pronunciation rules while there are definite characteristics that make jazz music – without question - jazz music. “There’s even a suggestion that intensive musical experience before the age of 12 enhances languagability and the ability to remember things that are expressed in language” Keniston said. Language also has the same predictability and variety that music does. Keniston said there must be predictability in language or we wouldn’t be able to understand each other but there is also variety because new thoughts and ideas are conceived every day. “We can convey ideas emotions and insights that nobody ever had before so to some extent you can do that in music too” Keniston said.
A new day to celebrate: honoring Mae Wheeler
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The concert featured various musical styles that were influenced by African-American music. Some of the musical styles included the earliest forms of jazz and infamous spiritual rituals that originated back during times of slavery such as “Lift Every Voice and Sing” which received a standing ovation. Jazz music which originated in the South during the early twentieth century was created by African Americans in that region eventually finding its way up north and throughout the United States. This was due in large part to the Great Migration the movement of African Americans from the South to other states in the North West and Midwest during the early twentieth century to about 1940. Louis’ own Scott Joplin who has a star on the St. Louis Walk of fame on Delmar Boulevard in University City is acknowledged as being one of the first jazz pioneers in the country.
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