However, jazz gained a wide audience when white orchestras adapted or imitated it, and became legitimate entertainment in the late 1930s when Benny Goodman led racially mixed groups in concerts at Carnegie Hall. Show tunes became common vehicles for performance, and, while the results were exquisite, rhythmic and harmonic developments were impeded until the mid-1940s. The blues, vocal and instrumental, was and is a vital component of jazz. With the passing of time, New Orleans jazz declined greatly by the 1970s. However it began to enjoy a bit of renaissance in the 1980s when Wynton Marsalis, who originally played hard bop and post bop, began to explore his roots.
Sheretta Williams Art March 15, 2013 Jazz History What does the word Jazz actually mean? It means a style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom. Jazz can be known by distinguishing features. First it points out the lesser beats in the bar or club second and fourth; it is similar to the music that is traditional that points out the 1st and 3rd beat. Next thing is the syncopation through short and strong rhythmic phases.
Sporre (2011) stated, “The compositional elements of line, form, and repetition apply to the use of the human body in exactly the same sense that they apply to those elements in painting and sculpture”. The Charleston is a jazz dance that was heard of from the early 1900s, but never became popular until the 1920s after its presence in the musical, “Runnin’ Wild.” It was first known throughout the Southern part of American, especially in Charleston, SC. The Charleston may be danced solo, with a partner or by a group. In 1925, tap Charleston was invented where dancers would incorporate tap dance while doing the Charleston. The early form of this type of jazz was done by repetition foot stamps and handclaps and performed to complex rhythms.
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.
Jazz is a musical genre that has for a very long time captivated its audience. Jazz music can make someone dance, indulge the moods of its listener, or just make you think. Jazz music can sound simple and straight forward, but there are many structures, and freedoms which make up jazz music. Jazz has structures, by which its musicians are given a "guide" to follow. Jazz also has freedoms, which allow the jazz musicians to expand, and alter the music.
New crazes came along, and new kinds of music. But ragtime continued to be performed and recorded, and it clearly had a major influence on early jazz greats such as "Jelly Roll" Morton, and on early jazz styles such as Dixieland and "Harlem Stride" jazz piano. As jazz went on to develop other styles, ragtime faded and was nearly forgotten.” But some enthusiasts who were exploring the roots of jazz began a ragtime revival in the 1940's. The revival gained momentum very slowly until, in 1973, the movie ‘The Sting’ reintroduced ragtime to the general public. Classic rags, particularly Joplin's “The Entertainer’, became once again a part of the standard band and piano repertoire.
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
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
Intro to Jazz In the Early Jazz period during 1900 and 1922, bands took place in New Orleans. Included in these bands were Joe “King” Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton who all played a style of music that would later become known as Dixieland. It was not until the early 1920’ that many black New Orleans musicians were first recorded. Among the first was the Original Dixieland Jazz Band with a collective of white New Orleans musicians who organized their band during 1916 and played in New York during 1917. The earliest forms of Jazz featured collective improvisation.
b. Louis Armstrong was the first ambassador of jazz. c. Louis Armstrong was both a talented singer and trumpet player. d. Louis Armstrong, a gifted musician, had a profound impact on jazz. _____7. The selection is primarily written in a(n) _______________ mode.