Curtis Fuller was born of Jamaican born parents on December 15, 1934in Detroit Michigan. He had a sister who started his influence in music. His sister took piano lessons and young Curtis would listen on and sometimes try playing some notes on his own. His parents died when he was young and at age six he was sent to live in an orphanage. Curtis and his sister remained friends throughout the years even though they were separated. At the orphanage they let the children play instruments and he began playing the violin, but when a nun saw his interest in music she took Curtis to the Illinois Jacquets featuring J. J. Thompson on the trombone, and that was what inspired him to love the brass instruments. Seeing J. J. Thompson pay was the trigger in Fullers life that inspired him throughout his musical career and still does to this day. Fuller attended Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where he became friends with Paul Chambers, Donald Bryd, Tommy Flanagan, Thad Jones and Milt Jackson. Around this time was a breeding ground for young musical talent. Curtis began playing the baritone b...
Ulysses Simpson Grant, the 18th President of the United States of America, was a significant influence on American history. Throughout his life, he always felt an exceptional commitment to the American military. This man helped the Union defeat the Confederates in the American Civil War and contributed to Americans during the Reconstruction time period, in hopes that America would be a fully industrialized nation. Grant displays many important military and political leadership roles in American society.
On November 6th, 1854, John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. His Father, John Antonio Sousa was Portuguese, while His Mother Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus Was Bavarian. The first instrument John ever played was the violin. He also sang, and played instruments such as the piano, flute, trombone, and baritone. When John was 13, his father enlisted him in the Marine Corps Band so he wouldn’t join the circus, however he did play drums for Pt Barnum, the Circus King. John remained with the Marines until he was twenty years old.
Media. The main means of mass communication regarded collectively. It comes in the form of t.v., radio, newspapers, magazines etc. The media has a way of portraying a story in a way that they want it to be seen by audiences. In other words, the media only tells us only what they want us to hear; which, may or may not be the truth or include the entire story. The media is always looking for the next best story and the competition to be the first one on the scene can be intense. A documentary by 9.14 Productions tells the story of a man and his art collection; The Barnes Foundation.
Ellison grew and developed a liking in music where he studied piano and the trumpet. It was during this time that Oklahoma City was famous with several great jazz musicians.
A Lesson before Dying, the 1994 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, is the gripping and evocative story of a young man accused of a crime and sentenced to death by electrocution. In the fictional town of Bayonne, Louisiana, the narrator, Grant Wiggins, attends the trail of Jefferson, a twenty-one-year-old uneducated black field worker who is charged with the murder of a white storekeeper. Jefferson claims that two of his acquaintances, Brother and Bear, shot Alcee Grope, the storekeeper. Jefferson’s lawyer rest his argument on the idea that Jefferson lacks the intelligence to commit the murder and sentencing him to death would be like putting a “hog” (18) in the electric chair. In malice of the so called defense, the all-white jury finds Jefferson guilty.
Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school bandand playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis went to New York to study at Juilliard but spend much more time hanging out on 52nd Street and eventually dropped out of school. He moved from his home in East St. Louis to New York primarily to enter school but also to locate his musical idol, Charlie Parker. He played with Parker live and in recordings from the period of 1945 to 1948. Davis began leading his own group in 1948 as well as working with arranger Gil Evans. Davis’ career was briefly interrupted by a heroin addiction, although he continued to record with other popular bop musicians.
Riley B. King better known as B.B. King was born on September 16th 1925 to a family of sharecropping farmers near a small town named Itta Bena in the Mississippi Delta. King's parents Albert and Nora Ella King separated when he was five years old and shortly after his mother moved to Kilmicheal Mississippi where Riley spent most of his time living with is grandmother. By age seven King was now working the field like a grown man. A couple of years later at the age of nine his mother died. King continued to live with his grandmother after his mother had past away. His grandmother was very religious and he attended church services with her. It was in the church where King begins to take an interest in music. He had dreams of becoming a gospel singer and learned how to play basic notes on the guitar from his preacher. In 1940 King's grandmother died and he had trouble making ends meet and eventually went to live with his father. (The King of Blues)
My name is Lyman Beecher. I was born in New Haven, Counnecticut, on October 12, 1775. In 1793, I attended Yale for a formal education. My most notable achievements include serving as a Presbyterian minister, serving in the First Church in Litchfield, CT, and being asked to be the Professor and President of Theology at Lane Seminary. I am especially known for being a successful revivalist and my ideas are ones that many Americans can connect and relate with. During the course of my career, I supported the Temperance Movement, suggested an easier way to deal with slavery, and aided with moral reform.
In 1937, the Williams family moved to Montgomery. He met Rufus Payne, also known as Tee-tot, while living in Montgomery. Tee-tot was a local folk, blues, and jazz singer and taught Hank everything he knew about music. Hank made his first radio appearance at the age of thirteen. One year later he formed his own band called The Drifting Cowboys. They began entering talent shows and performing all across Montgomery. By performing in shows around Alabama, Hank Williams and his band caught the attention of Nashville (“Hank Williams”).
The brilliant composer Clara Schumann was born as Clara Josephine Wieck on 13 September 1819. Even before her birth, her destiny was to become a famous musician. Her father, Friedrich Wieck, was a piano teacher and music dealer, while her mother, Marianne Wieck, was a soprano and a concert pianist and her family was very musically gifted. Her father, Friedrich, wanted to prove to the world that his teaching methods could produce a famous pianist, so he decided, before Clara’s birth, that she would become that pianist. Clara’s father’s wish came true, as his daughter ended up becoming a child prodigy and one of the most famous female composers of her time.
Noble Sissle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 10, 1889. His early interest in music came from his father, a minister and organist. The Sissles moved to Cleveland when Noble was 17, and in 1908, before graduating from high school, he joined a male quartet for a four-week run of the Midwest vaudeville circuit. After graduating, he joined a gospel quartet for a tour on the same circuit.
Yes, I would definitely characterize Paul Farmer as a servant leader. A servant leader is defined as a person beginning with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, and to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. . . The difference manifest itself in the care taken by the servant—first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. I believe this definition describes Paul exactly, when he graduated and first visited Haiti he began to serve the needs of others. After spending time in Haiti, Paul realized he found his life’s purpose was to be a doctor to poor people, and he would start in Haiti. After serving people all around the world, he later grew into a leader after making sure people’s medical needs were being served. From the text, it seemed as if Paul was genuinely volunteering in rural areas to later becoming a doctor with a whole organization to help the less fortunate all around the world. It never stated that Paul was doing this because he wanted to become famous, run different programs, or to become wealthy.
Women were perceived as either being a housewife, a nurturer, or a person for company. They did not have the right to vote till later on, work, and if they had an opinion that a male do not agree with, women are considered “wicked”; not savvy, not prudent but wicked to the core. It is unfair, unethical, atrocious, but through it all there was one female who dared to challenge the mind of men and the notion that women can be more than what men perceive them as being. Her name is Margaret Fuller. The goals of Margaret Fuller were precise. Men should realize that women are not an epitome of a statue but human beings, just as men, women can achieve full adulthood and citizenship, but most vitally Margaret aimed to change the assumptions about
John William Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, on September 23, 1926. Two months later, his family moved to High Point, North Carolina. He grew up in a typical black family in the South. The Coltranes were very religious and steeped in tradition. Playing was in his blood. Both of his parents were musicians, his mother was a member of the church choir and his father played the violin. For several years, young Coltrane played the clarinet, however it wasn‘t his passion. It was only after he heard the great alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges playing with the Duke Ellington band on the radio, that he became enthusiastic about music. He dropped the clarinet to take up the alto
James A. Garfield was an outstanding man of many endeavors who went from driving boats down the canal to become a general of the union army to the twentieth president of the United States of America (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans). James A. Garfield was against slavery and had great plans for reconstruction, but sadly they were cut short. His term only lasted in the first year, as Garfield was shot by an office seeker and died many months later (The American Heritage Book of the Presidents and Famous Americans).