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the popular music was called a bird in a gilded cage
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Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey was written
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Some of the first jazz icons, trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke, were born in 1901 and 1903, respectively. Inspired by ragtime music, they played music that valued self expression, and in the early part of the century, began to capture the na
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leming invented the diode thermionic valve and, later, Lee de Forest the triode. Electrical recording had become a possibility.
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Edison continued to persevere with the cylinder machine but the disc was proving ever stronger competition
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The first jazz releases on cylinder helped to delay the final demise of this format. Leopold Stokowski, with the Philadelphia Orchestra, began recording for the Victor Company at the Camden, New Jersey studios.
