Once he left his family’s household he explored other bands and first settled with Art Bronson’s Bostonians. Lester picked up the tenor saxophone while playing with this band. He played with the Bronson’s Bostonians until 1929 when he returned back home with his family. Between 1930 and 1934 Lester played with a number of different bands. In 1930 Lester played with Walter Page’s Blue Devils.
He put together his first band in 1934 and was given a spot at Billy Rose’s new theater restaurant The Music Hall (Stockdale, 1995). Later that year, he auditioned for NBC’s Lets Dance, a popular three-hour radio program that aired weekly and featured popular dance music styles (“Benny Goodman”, 2011). Goodman was given a spot on the show. Needing a new sound, he began purchasing arrangements from composer Fletcher Henderson, an African-American songwriter who had a popular Atlanta band in the early 1930’s. These hot, edgy arrangements combined with Goodman desire for precision in
The music that played in African American clubs was faster and wilder than the jazz played by the white dance halls, but even the jazz in the African American clubs was tame in comparison to the jazz of New Orleans. King Oliver is the best example of the shift in style that occurred when musicians moved from New Orleans to Chicago. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band was highly successful in New Orleans. The early New York Jazz music was influenced by ragtime music, which had been popular there in the early 1900s. Scott Joplin had played in New York, and other great musicians followed in his footsteps.
This was just the grip that Armstrong had on the jazz game. Jazz took America by storm .It was much different from the traditional l notation and basic composed sequences . Jazz was improvisation from the mind body and soul. Louis Armstrong was said to be one of the best to ever play jazz. Duke elleghton was quoted saying "I want Armstrong on every instrument", This just goes to show his tremendous skill when it comes to
Louie Armstrong and Charlie Parker came along and helped introduce the world to Scatting. Big Band style came along in the 1930’s, and was lead by amazing artists such as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Artie Shaw. Kansas City Jazz transformed the music from swing to bebop. From then on, jazz had no limitations. When Prohibition came in 1920, jazz was thought of as immoral.
The author’s purpose in writing this selection is to a. explain the history of jazz in the twentieth century b. entertain the reader with anecdotes about Louis Armstrong. c. persuade us to listen to more jazz music in the future d. inform us of Louis Armstrong’s contribution to jazz _____ 3. The tone of the selection could best be described as a. ambivalent b. objective c. admiring d. irreverent _____ 4. The transition word however in paragraph two indicates a. cause and effect b. steps in a process c. contrast d. chronological order _____ 5. The organizational structure of paragraphs two, three, and four could be described as a. definition b. chronological order c. listing d. example _____ 6.
The music of the swing era was popular from the 1930’s to around the beginning of World War two when most of the Jazz musicians went off to fight in the war. Before the 1930s, however, small groups, usually consisting of a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba or bass, banjo or piano, and drums, performed jazz. Each instrument had a specific role in the ensemble, aside from the melody. This sectionalized approach carried over into the big bands of swing music, which instead featured a section of three to four trumpet players; four trombone performers and five to six saxophonists. The number of Clarinet players were doubled and instead of a bassist they had a tuba player.
Cox and Hendrix decided to form a quintet, so they could jam and make time pass by a little faster. They performed for the other troops and became quite popular along the camp. In late 1962, Hendrix broke his ankle and got let off of the army with an honorable discharge. Cox left the army two months after Hendrix, and they continued to
Actually he is one of the “origin” musicians of Rock n’ Roll whose music style is a mixture of Blues, country music and Rock n’ Roll. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry pursue his interest in music from an early age and he gave his first public performance in 1941 while still at high school. By early 1953 Berry was performing with Johnnie Johnson's trio, starting a long-time collaboration with the pianist. Although the band played mostly blues and ballads, the most popular music among whites in the area was country. Berry wrote, "Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?'
The difference between these two styles involves artists, major composition and influence. Through these three areas, the development of ragtime and blues greatly affect the revolution of jazz. The individual experience of artists can both affect and reflect the main characteristics of a music style. Ragtime dominated American popular music for nearly two decade from 1890s to 1910s. During this period, Scott Joplin, noticed as the most influential pianist to ragtime, was born into a typical Africa-American family in Northeast Texas, whose father had been a slave.