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From the beginning to Ragtime (1900-1917)
· Blues
· African dances and songs
· Espiritual and worksongs
· Music bands and europeans orchests
· Ragtime. Music for piano in Cabarets -
Scott Joplin
(Texarkana, Texas, United States, November 24, 1868)
Joplin was an American composer and pianist, Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions and was dubbed the "King of Ragtime Writers". During his brief career, he wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas. Ragtime Piano : SCOTT JOPLIN -
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New Orleands: Dixieland (1910-1920)
·Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.
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Jerry Morton
Known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genere rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit. Doctor Jazz - Jelly Roll Morton -
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Chicago style: Swing (1917-1929)
· The first recording of the story was made "The original Dixieland Jazz band"
· Jazz spreads across America and travels to Europe
· Musicians of new orleands emigrated to the north: Chicago, New York,..
· At the beginning of the twentieth century jazz is rustic and have a bad reputation
·Swing music is a jazz style that originated in the United States in the late 1920s and became one of the country's most popular and successful musical genres during the decade of the 1930 -
Louis Amstrong
Was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and different eras in jazz. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive" trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance.
La vie en rose - Louis Armstrong -
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Classic jazz (1929-1954)
· There was a high professional level
· Is a time well-known also the age of the big bands
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Benny Goodman
(May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986)
Goodman was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". One of his most famous performances is that of "Sing, sing, sing (with a swing)" "SING, SING, SING" BY BENNY GOODMAN -
Charlie Parker
(August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955)
Parker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker was a highly influential jazz soloist and a leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique and advanced harmonies. Charlie Parker - All the things you are -
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Modern jazz: Be-bop (1945-1970)
· End of the Second World War
· Be-bop emerges as a reaction to the big bands that had been removed from the authentic jazz
· Is played in small groups
· It was not commercial. The harmony was much more complex than the swing
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Cool jazz (1950- 1965)
· Softer melodies
· It is characterized by relaxed tempos and lighter tone, in contrast to the tense and complex bebop style
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Chet Baker
(December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988)
Baker was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, and vocalist. Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals (Chet Baker Sings, It Could Happen to You). Chet Baker - Almost blue -
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Free-jazz (1960-1970)
· More experimental and cutting-edge
· Free jazz has also been described as an attempt to return jazz to its primitive, often religious, roots and emphasis on collective improvisation. -
Ornette Coleman
(March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015)
Coleman was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, a term he invented with the name of his 1961 album. His "Broadway Blues" has become a standard and has been cited as a key work in the free jazz movement. Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman -
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Jazz-fusion (1970-1985)
· Is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz
· Many jazz musicians began experimenting with electric instruments and amplified sound for the first time, as well as electronic effects
·The great commercial success and the strong consolidation of the fusion with the rock (the jazz rock), has made that some authors even consider them synonymous -
Miles Davis
(May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991)
Was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career which kept him at the forefront of a number of major stylistic developments in jazz. Miles Davis - So What -
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Contemporary jazz (1975-1990)
· Contemporary Jazz is essentially a catch-all term for the various permutations of popular, mainstream jazz of the 1980s and '90s. While those years were certainly not devoid of complex, cerebral jazz recordings, music referred to as contemporary jazz does not usually share those sensibilities, nor is the term generally used to describe music centered around hard bop or the avant-garde. -
Wynton Marsalis
(born October 18, 1961)
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, teacher, music educator, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, United States. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences. He has been awarded nine Grammys in both genres.
He is the son of a musician's family.
Wynton Marsalis - Jazz in Marciac 2009
