Wednesday’s peer review was immensely helpful in finding some more direction in my project. Through the process I was able to see some of the ways in which I could take my paper, most of which were not even crossing my mind.
- Biggest obstacle is making the narration interwoven between the personal and objective fact.
- Art Blakey <——> Charlie Parker
- Charkes Mingus <—-> Gabe Baltazar
- Ronnie Cuber
- My Father
- Me
- Charlie Parker was a leading face of Bebop. Art Blakey was in that same class of musicians coming up in 1940’s and creating this new bebop music. both had their own distinctive way of playing and interpretations of songs and their structures.
Charles Mingus a leader of hardbop, hardbop descends from bebop. Charles Mingus was both influenced by and in turn influenced Art Blakey’s playng in later years, whereas in Charles earlier Career it was artists like Blakey and Parker that inspired the Music he played.
Gabe Baltazar: A Hawaii born native, from a Japanese mother and a Filipino father. Baltazar took to music at a young age, his father was a musician and surely had some influence in this. So this musician was born in plantation era Hawaii to immigrant parents, life not the best at the time is what i’m getting at. Baltazar at first into the big bands and swing music, early in life he heard the sounds of Charlie Parker which would change Baltazr’s playing forever, the music became not just reading notes off a page and replicating, but really making the song your own, inserting your low little identifiable bumps. - These musicians have heavy influence on my father growing up, and now in my life they have hold a significant place as well.
- Discovered jazz at a time in my life where I was confused about who I was, jazz and the musicians of an era long gone are still able to reach out, touch, and connect the hearts of people everywhere.
- A lot of what was pointed out was already in my head just not on the paper yet so that was good.