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Classic jazz
New Orleans style, or "Classic Jazz" started with brass bands that performed for parties and dances in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the musical instruments had been salvaged from the Confederate War. They salvaged the clarinet, saxophone, cornet, trombone, tuba, banjo, bass, guitar, drums and occasionally a piano.This lively new music combined syncopation of ragtime with adaptations of popular melodies, hymns, marches, work songs and the Blues. -
Jazz was born
Jazz style took the form of small-band music. Jazz originated in New Orleans. This musical style is sometimes mistaken as "Dixieland" but is less solo-oriented. traditional New Orleans Jazz was performed by blacks, whites, and African-American creoles. While "Dixieland" is a term for white performers revival of this style. -
The word "jazz" first appears in print.
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the term jazz
The term "Jazz" was first applied to a style of music and dance during World War I. Jazz in a dance form, however, originates from the vernacular dances of Africans when they were brought to the Americas on slave ships. This dance form developed alongside jazz music in New Orleans in the early 1900s. -
many crucial events in jazz.
Do to the prohibition of alcohol. The law gave rise to speakeasies and private residences and inspired a wave of jazz-accompanied and booze-fueled rent parties. Well this was happening New Orleans began to lose its centrality in musical output, as musicians moved to Chicago and New York City. Chicago enjoyed being the capitol of jazz -
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Jazz Hands can be traced back to Al Jolson’s 1927 film, The Jazz Singer. In the film, Jolson plays a young man who defies his strict Jewish parents, and becomes a singer. The film is mainly remembered both for being the first ever “talkie,” with dialogue synchronized to the action, and also for Jolson’s incredibly offensive blackface minstrelsy. The performance numbers in the film, which were praised upon its release, are still somewhat unforgettable today. -
jazz music to swing music
The Great Depression had fallen the nation. 25% of the workforce was jobless, and up to 60% of African American men had no work. When the farms began to wither and rot, people went to the cities to search for work. All businesses included the record industry were failing.
Black musicians were not allowed to do studio or radio work, but jazz music was resilient.Dance halls were packed with people dancing the jitterbug to the music of big bands, which became swing music. -
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker, despite a severe drug problem, was at the height of his career. In 1950 he became the first jazz musician to record with a string ensemble. Charlie Parker With Strings made my list of “Ten Classic Jazz Albums.” -
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Death of both Lester Young and Billie Holiday,
1959 saw the deaths of both Lester Young, who died on March 15th, and Billie Holiday, who passed away on July 17th. Despite these great losses, the future of jazz seemed bright when 1950s drew to a close. -
jazz
At the start of the 1960s, jazz had become elementally forward-looking and sophisticated.
