Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.

It was logical that he would come up with the figure of the modern jazz musician.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

Chicago is home to several other modern and jazz dance troupes, such as the Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

After Terry Burns, his half-brother, introduced him to modern jazz, his enthusiasm for players like Charles Mingus and John Coltrane led his mother to give him a plastic alto saxophone in 1961 ; he was soon receiving lessons from a local musician.

In jazz, pizzicato is the norm, except for some solos and also occasional written parts in modern jazz that call for bowing.

In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance — modern jazz dance — emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional dance.

During this time, choreographers from the modern and ballet dance worlds experimented with the jazz dance style.

In some modern jazz styles, dominant 7th chords in a tune may contain altered 9ths ( either flattened by a semitone, which is called a " flat 9th ", or sharpened by a semitone, which is called a " sharp 9th "); 11ths ( sharpened by a semitone, which is called a " sharp 11th "); 13ths ( typically flattened by a semitone, which is called a " flat 13th ").

In contrast, in many modern jazz styles within smaller, the guitarist plays much more sparsely, intermingling periodic chords and delicate voicings into pauses in the melody or solo, and using periods of silence.

From the mid-1950s, most of Preminger's films utilized distinctive animated titles designed by Saul Bass, and many had modern jazz scores.

In many types of music, notably baroque, romantic, modern and jazz, chords are often augmented with " tensions ".

This style of jazz ultimately became synonymous with modern jazz, as either category reached a certain final maturity in the 1960s.

Camping overnight, a rural invasion, eccentric dress, wild music and sometimes wilder behaviour — these now familiar features of pop festival happened at Beaulieu each summer, culminating in the so-called ' Battle of Beaulieu ' at the 1960 festival, when rival gangs of modern and traditional jazz fans indulged in a spot of what sociologists went on to call ' subcultural contestation '.

Free improvisation, as a genre of music, developed in the U. S. and Europe in the mid to late 1960s, largely as an outgrowth of free jazz and modern classical musics.

Many modern jazz critics still harbor similar antipathy toward Miller.

He was also a major exponent of modern jazz in the 1950s.

" The band Watchtower, who released their first album in 1985, blended the modern thrash metal sound with heavy progressive influences, and even Megadeth were often and still are often associated with progressive metal, as Dave Mustaine even once claimed that the band was billed as " jazz metal " in the early ' 80s.

While the early saxophone had two separate octave vents to assist in the playing of the upper registers just as modern instruments do, players of Sax's original design had to operate these via two separate octave keys operated by the left thumb.

A substantial advancement in saxophone keywork was the development of a method by which the left thumb operates both tone holes with a single octave key, which is now universal on modern saxophones.

The recorder, modern B-flat trumpet, oboe, and soprano saxophone have all been used as substitutes for the cornetto in modern performances.

It was during this period that he played frequently with modern dance bands, and where his exposure to American jazz bands, with their treatment of vibrato, inspired him to experiment with and develop his trademark classical saxophone vibrato.

Marcel Mule is universally recognized as a modern master of the classical saxophone and a spiritual heir to Adolphe Sax.

Many modern groups use harmonica, accordion, alto and tenor saxophone, trumpet and trombone.

Macedonian folk orchestras consist of a clarinet or saxophone, drum kit, bass guitar, accordion and guitar, sometimes with modern synthesizers and drum machines.

Tatico Henríquez ( d. 1976 ), considered the godfather of modern merengue típico, replaced the marimba with electric bass and added a saxophone ( it was used before, but infrequently ) to harmonize with the accordion.

In modern merengue típico a saxophone is an addition to the accordion, along with electric bass guitar.

At the same time, they switched from folk instruments like the accordion, fiddle, and iron triangle to modern instruments, such as the electric guitar and bass, upright piano, saxophone, and drumming trap set.

A transposing instrument pitched in the key of B, modern soprano saxophones with a high F # key have a range from A3 to E6 and are therefore pitched one octave above the tenor saxophone.

In addition to the standard syllabuses, AMEB has a series of " for leisure " syllabuses for the piano, saxophone and voice which contain a repertoire of modern music.

It would be very difficult to predict the tonal qualities of a modern plastic saxophone without first making a prototype and testing it.

The workshop will cover all aspects of playing including reed selection and adjustment, intonation, practice techniques, recital and audition preparation, modern saxophone techniques, and saxophone quartet playing.

It is significantly different from " modern " Hoobastank as its songs fit more into the genres of funk rock and ska punk rather than alternative rock and post-grunge, especially through extensive use of a saxophone.

Several modern works for orchestra and chamber ensembles were scored for contrabass saxophone by composer Adam Gilberti.

The modern bass saxophone is a transposing instrument pitched in B, an octave below the tenor saxophone.

After the Second World War, Ohzawa taught at the Kobe Jagakuin ; composed light music, jazzy concertos for saxophone and trumpet ; created an orchestra ; and hosted his own radio show featuring the orchestra, which featured popular classics, as well as more modern works by such composers as Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Whenever he taught or lectured to saxophone players, Raschèr emphasized that the modern mouthpieces were not what Sax had intended, and the sound they produce, while useful to a jazz player who requires a loud penetrating sound, was not appropriate for use in classical music.

This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Neither is primary experience understood according to the attitude of modern empiricism in which nothing is thought to be received other than signals of sensory qualities producing their responses in the appropriate sense organs.

Shakespeare's Shylock, too, is of dubious value in the modern world.

But a modern Oedipus who is doomed because he cannot oppose his own childhood is only pathetic, and for renouncing the mystery in favor of psychological truth he gives up the claim on our sympathies.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

As Sandburg said at the time: `` It is as ancient as the medieval European ballads brought to the Appalachian Mountains, it is as modern as skyscrapers, the Volstead Act, and the latest oil well gusher ''.

Here we may observe that at least one modern philosophy of history is built on the assumption that ideas are the primary objectives of the historian's research.

The Chicago contingent of modern critics follow Aristotle so far in this direction that it is hard to see how they can compare one poem with another for the purpose of evaluation.

Diplomatic is another area for which the dawn of the twentieth century marks the beginning of modern standards of scholarship.

This is certainly an irrational dogmatism, in which the modern mind attempts to understand the spirit of the sixteenth century on twentieth-century terms.

This angry and exasperated stance which Patchen has maintained in his poetry for almost fifteen years has been successfully modulated into a kind of woe that is as effective as anger and still expresses his disapproval of the modern world.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

The possibility of recall into the Army is part of the price that a modern American has to pay for the enviable heritage of liberty which he enjoys.

Under modern conditions, this is especially true of the ready reserve.

However, its modern one-story layout is designed to increase our production capacity, permit more efficient manufacturing, and substantially reduce current repair and maintenance costs.