John Mclaughlin – Fusion Jazz Guitar Virtuoso
John Mclaughlin is one of the most famous fusion jazz guitarists. It is impressive that he learned how to play guitar by himself. He was first recognized by the public after playing guitar in Miles Davis fusion jazz album “Bitches Brew”. Later he formed famous fusion bands such as “the Mahavishunu Orchestra”. Mahavishunu orchestra became very famous. After Mahavishunu Orchestra, Mclaughlin became influenced by Indian music, and he is still playing Indian music.
Joke Time – Start Rhymin’.
If you have some TIME, then you can spend it with RHYME.
If you like my RHYME, then you can throw me a DIME.
Rhyme is one of the simplest poetic devices. However, it is also one of the most effective poetic devices. In hip hop, rhyme and flow are the two most important factors. Flow is really easy to make. You just follow the BEAT and get on your FEET. However, people have hard time making rhymes that actually make sense. Once you know how to make rhymes, you can make all kinds of funny lines.
Some people get stuck because they care about grammar too much. As long as the sentence makes sense, the grammar doesn’t really matter. You can use informal terms like “ain’t”, “piss”, or “homie”. It is all about expressing the happiness, anger, love, or sadness in your mind.
Here’s is a simple example.
I cut my CREAM with laser BEAM
then I share my DREAM with my baseball TEAM.
So start rhyming now!
However, you have to be careful when you’re making the rhyme. Your rhyme can be offensive to the people arond you.
Chick Corea – A Keyboard Virtuoso
Armando Anthony Corea, a.k.a Chick Corea is one of the greatest fusion jazz pianists in the world. He is a highly respected figure in not only the world of jazz, but the whole world of music. Unlike other jazz albums, millions of his copies were sold, proving that jazz albums can become popular among the people.
Chick Corea was born in Massachusetts as the son of a spanish family. His father was a jazz trumpet player, and his house was full of jazz music all the time. He got inspired by the musical atmosphere around him, and he started piano at the age of four. It will be safe to assume that he showed his talent to the people around him already when he was very young.
After working with many musicians along his musical career, Chick Corea finally started composing fusion jazz tunes. He put the elements of Latin music in fusion jazz and created his own style, just like Herbie Hancock did by putting the elements of funk into fusion jazz. In 1971, he formed the band “Return to Forever”, and released the album “Return to Forever”. Even though the recording took only one day and the band didn’t put effort into it, this album soon became the biggest jazz hit of 1972. Chick Corea is still respected by people, and his musical career is still going on.
Chick Corea’s most famous piece is “Spain” that first appeared on the 1972 Return to Forever album “Light as a Feather”. The instrumentation of the original album version is flute, keyboard, drums, and bass. However, numerous musicians including Chick Corea himself created different versions of this tune.
Joke Time – Knock Knock
I’m going to write about jokes in some of my posts. Sharing jokes with the people around you is a way to relieve the stress from school, office, field stage, and studio. Jokes make people to laugh, and give energy in their mind. Jokes are one of the factors that make languages much more interesting and beautiful. In my opinion, a language cannot exist without jokes that are written in that language.
Knock Knock joke is one the most widely known english jokes. It is applicable in numerous situations. There is a certain protocol that has to be done in order to complete a knock knock joke. Here is the protocol.
A: Knock Knock!
B: Who’s there?
A: X!
B: X who?
A: XYZ (The Punchline)
Here is an example of a knock knock joke. This will help you to understand the protocol.
Knock Knock!
Who’s there?
Vampire!
Vampire who?
VAMPIRE STATE BUILDING!
Here is another example:
Knock Knock!
Whose there?
To!
To who?
To whom!
Like this, if you just understand the formula, anyone can create a knock knock joke with anything! You can make a knock knock joke for many different puposes too! You can make one to entertain, or maybe satire sensitive issues in a funny way! Maybe that’s why knock knock joke is so poplular.
Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock is one of the most famous jazz musicians in the world. No one can deny that he’s an American Jazz legend, and always will be remembered as a legend. Born in 1940, Herbie Hancock’s musical life began with Classical music education. His talent was recognized right away. In high school, Hancock finally got interested into Jazz by listening to several jazz recordings.
In 1963, Herbie Hancock’s Jazz career began by joining the new project of a legendary trumpet player Miles Davis, the “Second Great Quintet”. With many other talented young musicians around him, Hancock developed his own style and way of playing piano. After playing in Miles Davis’s band, Hancock started his own career, his own music.
As a solo jazz pianist, Herbie Hancock produced numerous impressive works with the help of many other Jazz musicians. During the late 1960s and 1970s, rock music became the hottest new trend in the music industry. The loud, noise-like sound of electric instruments certainly influenced musicians of different genres and the public. A revolution was about to break out in Jazz. In order to create new sounds and pull the attention of the public, azz musicians modified and put the elements of rock in their music. Herbie Hancock was one of the leading artists of this movement. He hired electric instrument players for his projects. Upright bass was replaced by electric bass. Electric guitar’s became much more important in the band than before. Herbie Hancock began playing electric keyboard, producing psychedelic and artificial sounds.
“Head Hunters”, released in 1973, is one of the most famous fusion Jazz/Funk masterpieces. Herbie Hancock and his band’s experimental melody and funky rhythm shocked both the public and the critics, earning the reputation of a mind blowing work. The album’s first track Chameleon became known as Herbie Hancock’s theme song. It also became a Jazz standard and is still played by numerous Jazz bands around the world. Despite the song’s long length, its simple, funky bass line and dreamy melody simply sucks one’s attention. “Head Hunters” went beyond the limit that Jazz had, and achieved a great success.
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