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JAZZ
• Truly an American creation
• Blend of European, Caribbean and
African music
• Truly took off during the 1920’s
• “Roaring 20’s” are also called the
“Jazz Age”
Timeline
• 1800’s – Slaves brought to the US and
Caribbean from west Africa
– African drumming
– Field Hollers
• 1920’s – Jazz Age
– Music flourished as people broke the law
– Black face performers
• 1930’s – Depression
– Blues has appeal
Al Jolson
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First superstar
Starred in first talkie “The Jazz Singer”
Performed in black face
In black face, actors acted lazy, stupid and
childlike
• Some African Americans even performed in
black face.
Influences
• Baptist-Gospel
• Ragtime
• Blues
– Incredibly Feeling
– Muddy Waters
– Bessie Smith
• Back Water Blues
Beginnings of Jazz
• New Orleans (called the birthplace)
• Chicago
• New York
– Cotton Club
• Kansas City
How is jazz played?
• Improvisation
• Instrument solos
– Each instrument plays by itself for a short
period of time
Jelly Roll Morton
• “I invented this music.”
• No, but he wrote it
down
• Piano
• Pimp, pool hustler,
gambler, door-to-door
salesman
– Coca-Cola with salt (cure
for tuberculosis)
• Dead Man Blues
Duke Ellington
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Piano and composer
Swing and Big Band Music
Good for dancing
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Louis Armstrong
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Probably the most influential jazz musician
Sent to a boys home and learned coronet
Appeared in over 25 movies
Had surgery to fix his raspy voice
Rockin’ Chair/Hello Dolly
Blacks turned on him
– Uncle Tom
– Negative Image
Billie Holiday
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Stubborn and cranky
Heroin addict
Faced discrimination
God Bless the Child
Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Benny Goodman
• Played clarinet,
composer,
bandleader
• Clarinet was not
usually used in
jazz
• Sing, Sing, Sing
Glenn Miller
• Played trombone
& lead band
• Played in 1930’s
• Volunteered for
army in 1942
• Played for troops
• In the Mood
Dizzy Gillespie
• Trumpet, composer, band
leader
• Performed in 1940’s.
• Someone fell on his
trumpet and bent it
• He liked the sound
• Salt Peanuts
Charleston
• Dance craze of
1920’s
• With partner or alone
• Dance of flappers
• The Charleston
Swing Revival
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
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