The Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment Program at the Duke Faculty Practice offers a new human-computer interaction form of therapy for individuals with anxiety disorders due to fear of heights, elevators, thunderstorms, public speaking and flying.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.
About âShake Rattle and Rollâ. This is a great example of jump blues, and the Bill Haley version is considered one of the very first rock and roll songs. Big Joe Turner, born in 1911, was a bartender and blues man. He tended bar in Kansas City in the early 1930s and started singing with the blues bands that came in.