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Music Makes Me Happy
 Music Makes Me Happy concerts features music in a variety of styles including jazz, folk, the blues, pop, world beat and folk songs. This concert is perfect for those who like to sing and dance along with a live band of 4 multi-talented musicians! Great Fun! Robbi K & Friends!  Visions of Jazz  Visions of Jazz...catches eyes and ears. Visions of Jazz...catches hearts and minds. Visions of Jazz...catches bodies and spirits. Visions of Jazz...conjures a vivid musical history of America's own art form. Trace the history of American Jazz trhough music and dance! Born in slavery...nurtured in field hollers, spirituals and call-and-response.... carried to freedom and brought to fruition as bebop, swing and cool in clubs, tenements and up North. That's the all-American journey of jazz. A new way of thinking about music, as revolutionary in its medium as Picasso was in his. Traditional blues, spiced with Caribbean and Latin influences, spread from the fertile crescent of New Orleans, evolving into a new musical discipline whose loose rules love improvisation and experimentation.
In New York, Chicago and the nation's other cities, jazz nightclubs brought together African American musicians and white fans, opening the way for racial integration later in the 20th century. Today, in Kansas City and Memphis, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.... wherever music lovers gather...the revolution that is jazz echoes and grows. DJ's hip-hop artists and rappers sample hooks from the greats.... and a new generation of fans America's own art form is born. |
