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What Made The Jazz Age Jazzy ? Peggy Snyder Capital High School August 11,1999 The Roaring Twenties The decade of the twenties is often referred to as the “ Jazz Age’. However, the term has much as much to do with the jazzy atmosphere of the time as with the music! Jazzy Sounds • Prohibition caused many of the jazz musicians to migrate north from New Orleans to Chicago • Joe “King” Oliver” was one of the best • His claim to fame was hiring Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Louis Armstrong • Louis Armstrong is the greatest single figure in the entire history of jazz. • The “Hot Five” seen here was one of the hottest groups of the twenties. Jelly Roll Morton • Jelly Roll Morton led one of Chicago’s most popular groups • He was a piano player, band leader, and show business personality • He got the name “Jelly Roll” because he rolled his fingers and his music was sweet Symphonic Jazz • George Gershwin wrote both classical and popular music • He was the first composer to combine jazz and classical music with Rhapsody in Blue in1924. • He followed with • An American in Paris in 1928. Jazzy Duds • Flappers were typical young girls of the twenties, usually with bobbed hair, short skirts, rolled stockings, and powdered knees! • They danced the night away doing the Charleston and the Black Bottom. Jazzy Talk -Twenties Slang • All Wet - wrong • Berries - anything wonderful • Bee’s Knees - a superb person or thing • Big Cheese -an important person • Bump Off - to murder • Dumb Dora - a stupid girl • Flat Tire - a dull, boring person • Gam - a girls leg • Gin Mill - A speak easy • Hooch - bootleg liquor • Hoofer - chorus girl • Torpedo - a hired gunman Twenty - Two Skidoo