Are you happy with your life at the moment?

(im so bored)

After first arriving in new york, charlie parker took a job as a dishwasher at jimmy's chicken shack, where played the piano nightly. listening to his astonishing harmonic restructuring, virtuoso phrasing, and breakneck tempos every night for three months, charlie parker challenged himself to adopt these qualities into his playing, and he continued to practice tirelessly.

Gudea of lagash was a neo-sumerian ruler who rejected sargon of akkad and his pretense of divinity in favor of what?

How did duke ellington create a new musical style that grew out of the ragtime tradition?