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Bebop Cookbook | Charlie Parker Bebop Blues Improvisation Etude No. 1

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. ---Charlie Parker Charlie Parker Bebop Blues Improvisation Etude No. 1 *NOTE: This etude is a short Bebop improvisational study of the twelve-bar blues based on materials presented in “Charlie Parker: The Analytical Study of Twenty-Two Performance Versions of Now's The Time”. The etude’s range and pitch register are...

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SUE at The Field Museum

SUE at The Field Museum | Chicago, Illinois | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   SUE, discovered by paleontologist Sue Hendrickson in 1990 at the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota, is the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex in the world. In 1997, with funding supports from The California State University system, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, McDonald's, and Ronald McDonald House Charities, The Field Museum was able to...

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Spotted Dog bike rack sculpture

Spotted Dog | Matthew Kargol | East Village, Des Moines | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   “Spotted Dog” by artist Matthew Kargol of Oskaloosa, located in the corner of East 5th and Locust Street in the trendy East Village district in downtown Des Moines, is a bike rack sculpture with a fun twist. Six Iowa artists were selected to create bike racks with funding support from Mayor's Annual...

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Jackson County Courthouse | Kansas City, Missouri

Jackson County Courthouse | Kansas City, Missouri | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang   Jackson County Courthouse, located at 415 E. 12th Street in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, was an Art Deco building designed by Wight and Wight in 1934. It was part of a series of government buildings, including Kansas City City Hall, built in the midst of the great depression in Kansas City. Harry S. Truman’s office...

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