HEADZ - J J COLAGRANDE

Headz - J J Colagrande



Headz - J J Colagrande

Introduction

It's about a group of coming-of-age characters in New York, Miami, and San Francisco who venture to Chicago for the dopest music festival of the summer. All the characters have real-life problems they struggle with, relationships and jobs they rebel against, and a wanderlust that forces them to travel. At the festie in Chicago, paths converge, trouble ensues, and it's on like Donkey Kong. There's a solid plot and a fast pace. It's funny and easily relatable. So far, the feedback has been great! New York: Headz is an determined book Headz by J J Colagrande. Jay-Jay Colagrande, author of the novel Headz (BlazeVOX Books) was born and raised in New York and lives in Miami.

Analysis

Although Born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Thelonious Monk's home became New York at the age of four. In the early 1940's he worked as a side man in jazz bands and became house pianist at Minton's Playhouse in Harlem. In this position he had a hand in formulating the bop style by backing up such musicians as Don Byas, Roy Eldridge, and Helen Humes. In 1944 Monk noted as a constituent of the Coleman Hawkins Quartet. During this identical year his melody 'Round about Midnight was noted by Cootie Williams. In supplement to these notes projects, Monk was furthermore playing at the Spotlite Club as a constituent of Dizzy Gillespie's orchestra. Thelonious noted under his own title in 1947 in a sextet meeting for Blue Note notes which encompassed his initial compositions Humph and Thelonious. In 1952 he marked a short-lived agreement with prestige records. After dismal sales, Prestige traded his agreement in 1955 to Riverside Records. Monk stayed with Riverside until 1961. During this time Monk's vocation started to take off. He made appearances with Coltrane, Wilbur Ware, Johnny Griffin, Roy Hanes, and Shadow Wilson at diverse evening spots. In supplement to this he noted with Art Blakey and Gigi Gryce throughout the identical time period.

Many might be alarmed to find out that in the 1760s and 1770s as rebellion era, New York's function in the American Revolution was neutral. New York at the start abstained from assessing the Declaration of Independence and resided at arm's span from the confrontation until British vessels were almost in New York Harbor. We find out that this is because the most of influential New Yorkers were royalists who advised the upstart revolutionaries of Boston and Philadelphia as rabble rousers who should at the very least significant be disregarded, if not hanged for treason. The Revolutionary War was an irritation to New Yorkers that hindered with trade and the flourishing enterprise that would reach to distinuish the town (Colagrande, 2009).

 

Teflon

Not to be bewildered with the "Teflon Don" John Gotti, (although there are some parallels) the "Teflon Leader" makes errors because they are human, but they are allergic to accusing themselves for anything. For a time some of them can keep ...