Born in the country. blues was the original influencer of jazz and continued to be popular long after jazz took off. Blues music, along with jazz, continued to influence and inspire musicians for decades to come to continue playing blues as well as to create new styles of music. Musicians such as Ma Rainey, “The Mother of Blues” and Jimmie Rodgers “The Father of Blues” made blues the success it was in the 1920s and the foundation for new music later on. Guitarists such as Blind Blake and banjo players like Charlie Poole inspired musicians with their styles and techniques (“1920s Jazz, Blues, Radio”).
Jazz is America’s classical music that evolved from the blending of African and European cultures. The artists are in an improvised jazz ensemble, and they are equal partners in the developing musical selections. Jazz music originated in New Orleans. In the late 1700s-1840 there was a common meeting place for most slaves called, Congo Square. Slaves were permitted to dance, sing, and play drums on Sundays.
By 1943 he began a series of annual concerts at Carnegie Hall, which was an indication of how much jazz was now accepted in prestigious western classical concert venues. Ellington used this opportunity to write longer and more ambitious works in several movements, like the epic musical history of African-American life, Black, Brown and Beige. Between 1927 and 1931 the Ellington Orchestra played its most famous residency. At the Cotton Club in Harlem, the band backed ‘jungle’ dance-theatre routines in a variety of shows, part of a new popular interest in African-American culture later known as the Harlem Renaissance. During the Cotton Club years, the Ellington band
Aidan Ford Jazz Music Jazz music first began in the late 1880’s and is a mix of African music and modern day European music of that time. Jazz music was originally started by the African Americans of New Orleans, which is why New Orleans is infamous for its jazz artists. As time went on new jazz artists formed rose up out of New Orleans. As the news of jazz spread throughout America, the people began to love it and it became one of the most famous genres of music in the 1920’s and 30’s. Jazz became so popular during these times, because life in America back than was rough for a lot of people.
The younger brother is Sonny, who at the beginning of the story is arrested for heroin and is also a jazz pianist. Jazz and the blues are about the heart, soul, and spirit and Baldwin shows this through the transformation of the brother’s relationship. The music not only helps the narrator understand himself, but his relationship with Sonny. It helps tell a
A biography of Albert King (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) Albert king, also known as 'The Velvet Bulldozer', is one of the three kings of the blues guitar along with B.B. King and Freddie King. King was a large man, weighing more than 250 pounds and standing at 6ft4, he had a presence that is big and superior hence the name 'Velvet Bulldozer". King, was brought into existence as Albert Nelson during the year of 1923 on April 25th in a place called Indianola, Mississippi in a cotton plantation. King's astonishing talent began with intedependently teaching himself to play on a homemade instruments such as the diddly bow and cigarbox guitar.
From his young years he played the harmonica and as he matured so did his guitar skills. Johnson lived and breathed blues music; Johnson was blues music. Throughout his short lived years Robert adopted a unique style that influenced few modern artists. His musical work truly changed music as we now know it and he rightfully earn the title “King of The Delta Blues.” Mr. Johnson was sort of the ladies man in his day. At an early age he got married to a Virginia Travis who was 16 at the time.
Armstrong was a famous jazz artist during the Harlem renaissance. Another form of music that was originated down south in the early 20th century by African American Americans was blues. Blues was a different type of music, which was nothing like the old traditional European music. “Frequently ironic and often bawdy, the music expressed the longings and philosophical perspectives of the black working class” (Britannica). This type of music was different from most modern types of that day of music.
THE AFRICAN EXPERIENCE ON AMERICAN SHORES: INFLUENCE OF NATIVE AMERICAN CONTACT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF JAZZ Morgen Stiegler A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial requirement of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF MUSIC August 2009 Committee: David Harnish, Advisor Chris Buzzelli © 2009 Morgen L. Stiegler All Rights Reserved iii ABSTRACT David Harnish, Advisor Over the past century, musicians and researchers alike have argued how specifically “African” or “European” jazz is. Some camps stand by a clearly African origin of Jazz with its common elements of syncopation, polyphony, and presence of “blue” notes and raspy timbre elements that cannot be traced to Western music, while others who attribute jazz a more Western parentage often cite non-African elements such as
While doing this he performed with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. From 1900 to 1902 he became a teacher at the Agricultural and Mechanical College in Huntsville, Alabama where he was a music teacher. In 1907 Handy turned to composition and published his first song called "Memphis Blues" which was released in 1912. Following "Memphis Blues" he released "Saint Louis Blues" in 1914, "Beale Street Blues" in 1917, and "Loveless Love" in 1921(What are, n.d.). Handy founded a