The 1920's era went by such name as how things got bopoular or how everything got big at the time got big. the 1920's jazz was big time because it was new era at the time because it was new american and the flappers. the age intolerance and the age of wonderful nonsense under and moniker the era embodied the beginning of modern american either technology , radio,, flappers, red scare, the great depression and jazz how it changed americans life during that time. Some people wonder how jazz started and changed America with music. The jazz Age was in the 1920s, but jazz actually began earlier than that.
Thus these sessions resulted in some of the most important masterpieces of early jazz, of which West End Blues is arguably the best known. Other important recordings include Basin Street Blues, Tight Like This, Saint James Infirmary, and Weather Bird. In the last named, only Armstrong and Hines are present, turning an old rag number into a tour-de-force of inspired musical runs as the trumpet and piano playfully come together, draw apart to compete, and come together again, over several
Originating in the homeless lands of the southern united states jazz music became a voice of the people. Early jazz musicians put their feelings into their music. They always seamed to tell a story, whether it be about racial discrimination ,Or a song about poverty in the south. or maybe just a mixture of experiences they went through. Black people lacked a voice in the early 19'00s and they needed a way to express themselves.
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
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”).
History Of Jazz Mus 225 Professor Hebert A. Smith, M.A 1. Race Record played what value in the development of African American music. Prior to the emergence of rhythm & blues as a musical genre in the 1940s, "race music" and "race records" were terms used to categorize practically all types of African-American music. Race records were the first examples of popular music recorded by and marketed to black Americans. Reflecting the segregated status of American society and culture, race records were separate catalogs of African-American music.
During the next few years he made recordings fronting his own musicians; depending on the number assembled, they were known as the Hot Five or the Hot Seven. Around the same time, Armstrong is credited with the invention of the jazz technique of scat singing--legend has it that Armstrong dropped his sheet music during a recording session and had to substitute vocal improvisations until someone picked up the sheets for him. Also during this period, his experimentations led him to break free of the more rigid Dixieland style of jazz to pave the way for a more modern jazz
Jazz CVolk October 26, 2008 MUS 252 Grand Canyon University Jazz Jazz has its similarities and its differences to music of previous eras. Being able to have an interest in all the different types of music and being able to accept it is something that takes the effort of an individual. However, if one is willing to make the effort they may find an interest in a style of music that they may not have otherwise known that they enjoyed. Jazz is similar to music of previous eras in that it, like previous styles carries a rhythm. This characteristic of jazz rhythm is syncopation, which is accenting offbeats or an unstressed beat.
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
“The Harlem Renaissance emerged amid social and intellectual upheaval in the African American Community.”(Wintz1). Jazz was a specific type of music that black professionalized in. Blacks prospered significantly from Jazz. “Louis Armstrong became the first great jazz soloist when he moved from King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago to Fletcher Henderson's band in New York City in 1924”(Britannica). Armstrong was a famous jazz artist during the Harlem renaissance.