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Jazz has to be one of my favorite forms of music, no matter what time in my life. As a member of the jazz band, I performed at concerts and for judges while in high school. It was our teacher's custom to play a documentary series about jazz's origins and how it influenced and was influenced by American history during each class. I also grew up listening to many different types of jazz. I started playing the trumpet when I was nine and always took a lot of inspiration from jazz artists. Between the catchy rhythm and the improvisation, jazz has a conic sound that I can't get enough of. However, jazz is not a specific song or sound; jazz is a conglomerate of different styles of music, and that means that there are many kinds of jazz. For this blog post, I focused on my favorite type of jazz, Bebop. One of the things that I enjoy most about Bebop is that it is an excellent example of the influences and climate of its time. Jazz artists who pioneered Bebop from swing include sev...

  Before I came to Converse, I attended two separate high schools. The first was Cane Bay, where I met most of my friends, and the second was Berkeley Middle College, where the class size was significantly smaller, but the academics were more challenging to prepare me for college. When I was at Cane Bay, there were people from all over South Carolina that I hadn't met before because I was homeschooled. The environment was a lot more diverse, and I made many friends from all over the world and from different backgrounds that I hadn't experienced in my upbringing. When I was at Cane Bay High School, I was in the jazz band, and I played guitar and trumpet there. We performed at multiple musical events and achieved a few different Awards, but it was about something other than the competition for me. It was always about the people and the music. One of the more notable people was my friend Sally. She played the trumpet just like I did. She was always energetic and Lively and perform...