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Slaves Improvise at Congo Square
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Jazz born in New Orleans
Most musical city, New Orleans. Center of slave trade. The slaves created Jazz in a way to let go of their sadness and feel better. "Jazz is about freedom."
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Minstral Shows
Whites dressed up as blacks. "Why'd the chicken cross the road" came from menstral shows. Menstral shows were the best forms of entertainment.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws start and try to put down black people
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Civil War
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Blue's
The St. Louis BluesSInging about you problems and getting ride of them by singing
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Buddy Bolden A.H
Also known as King Bolden. He had a huge sound and "created" Rag-time. He was a heavy drinker. -
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Sidney Bechet
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Spirituals, Minstral Bands, and Ragtime
Kids liked ragtime because their parents resented it. Rebellious. DA -
Blacks & Whites traincar separation
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Jelly Roll Morton
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More Segregation Creols ruined
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Duke Ellington
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Bix's Life WA
His father did not want his to play Jazz music at all
From the age of 3 he showed musical talent
His brother showed him the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Louis Armstrong was his inspiration
His parents put him in a strict boarding school in Illinois
Within 1 week, he got his way into a black Jazz band on the south side
He went to the city so much to see his favorite musicians that he got expelled
His father was very angry and sent him to work in his coal mining business
He went to Chicago
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Jellyroll was the first person to write down Jazz music
He thought he invented Jazz!
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Louis Armstrong
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Buddy Bolden ends up in Luisiana State Insane Asylum
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Bechet is arested in Pairs
He get into a fight over a cord change and challneges a guy to a gun fight in down town pairs at 4:30 during rush hour. Misses his target and hits a girl in the back of the leg. Then was thrown out of Europe.
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Lester Young
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John Henry Hammond Jr's Life WA
could barely carry a tune, but he was a very famous, he was born in 1910
He was born in wealth, raised in a mansion in New York
When he was 12 he heard his first live Jazz band
He believed that black musicians were not getting the attention they deserved
He had somewhere where they could play
He loved Jazz music
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George Gershwin combined the element of orchestra into Jazz
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World War I
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Billie Holliday was born
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Billie Holiday
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Billy Strayhorn
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The "Originial Dixieland Jazz Band" was the first Jazz band ever recorded
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Thelonious Monk
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African Americans gain some freedoms
Like baseball players, Institutions, and banks. DA -
Charlie Parkers life WA
Charlie Parker was from Kansas City, Missouri, he was born in 1920
His father was a tap dancer who turned into a coal miner, he was a heavy drinker
His father bought him a saxophone when he was 13
He played songs twice the pace that they are supposed to be played
He dropped out of school because he decided that he did not need it because he was going to be a Jazz musician
He drank and used marijuana, because he could stay up all night and play music, he was 15
He married at 16
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Charlie Parker
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louis armstrong got married again
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luis quit hendersons band
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Miles Davis
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Bessy smith sang about her life
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KKK interupts Bessy's show
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Great Depression
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fats waller wa
Fats Waller, over 300 lbs and is over 6’ tall
He lives in NYC
He eats and drank a lot of liquor
James P. Johnson was his mentor
He sold over 400 songs to publishers
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Clifford Brown
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Death of Buddy Bolden
in 1931 Buddy Bolden died in the asylum.
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Rosevelt Elected presidency
Spirits raised, prohibition appealed (more drinking!)
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introduction of Billy Holliday (wa)
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Armstrong is out of a job, stops recording
He doesn't record for two years.
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Armstrong went home
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Ellingtons Mother dies
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Teenagers got the chance to see Benny Goodman play Jazz because he mainly only played for adults
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Benny Goodman/Chick Web "Battle of the Bands" at the Savoy
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Goodman disbands the band
He didn't like the fame so he gave up on the orchestra.
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World War II
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World War II
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Savoy closed
The Savoy it closed because whites and blacks where equals there. They even went home with each other.
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Race Riots
Black people rioting in New York burning down White Businesses and looting them. -
Jazz moves to 52 ST.
After savoy cloeses people go to 52 St. for Jazz music where Sailors and other service men hang out and have fun. -
Jazz takes a turn into a new faster style
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Charlie Parker made records, got famous
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Swing started to end
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Bbop was created
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miles davis in 1948 to 1950 music wa
Miles Davis was a really big name in Jazz evolution
He was the next stage in 1948-1950 -
Members of Dizzys Band made their own band
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Charlie Parker kicks his habits temperarily
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Elvis wa
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Armstrong began defending Black Rights
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armstrong heart attack
Summer 1959 Armstrong has a heart attack
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JFK Assassination
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Duke Ellington Gets award from Nixion
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British Invasion (Beatles meet America)
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Louis Armstrong Dies
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Ellington got Lung Cancer
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Dexter Gordon Comes Back to US
He went to New York City and returns to his club the village vanguard. It helped bring some people back to jazz.
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Wynton joins art blakey's band
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Dexter Gordon dies.
He dies and his wife closed the village vanguard for one day and they reopened it and has since run it to today.
