1. What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong and Fleurette Africaine (Little Flower) by Duke Ellington. 2. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are two of the greatest geniuses contributing to the development of jazz music. Both pieces symbolize the civil rights struggle that was part of the changing America, which Armstrong and Ellington lived in.
Jazz has shaped the world we know today. Jazz would have never been as popular without the help of the famous musicians: Jelly Roll Morton, Joe King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. These people helped spread the new genre through radio, railroads, and the records that they played. Where did this all start? The jazz age began in New Orleans where a certain King was born.
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Lab 07: Roots of Jazz: Ragtime Jazz music is a unique (one of a kind) musical art form invented in America. Jazz began around 1900 in the African American areas of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz music is a mixture of the music of Africa and Europe. Jazz borrowed complex rhythms, singing style and improvisation from African music. Jazz improvisation means that a performer changes the melody of a song and invents a new melody as the song is being played.
Jazz music has spread around the world. It has drawn on national and regional musical cultures. Jazz has been the most important social factor that black musicians were able to record the blues, gospel and more. These musicians lived through inequality and many discovered their freedom in jazz. It became African Americans freedom because jazz
Jazz is most often thought to have been started in the 1920s as this explosive movement, but that is in fact not the case. Starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century many African American musicians have started to explore their taste in improvising, and where better to do that than New Orleans (Anderson). Before the 1920s these jazz musicians have already been going around sharing the unique sound, but up until then, jazz had remained majorly in New Orleans. Interestingly during this period, a common jazz band would consist of a cornet, a clarinet, a trombone, and a rhythm section when at this period of time the clarinet is not commonly associated with being a jazz instrument, it moved into being the saxophone rather. A big
“I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.” Miles Davis’ passionate statement describes the distinctive innate ability to formulate music that transcended all musical genres, generations and nationalities. According to Bernal, Davis moved Jazz forward through his constant search for brand-new musical expressions.
Southern African American men actually found most of their work in Chicago and other parts of the midwest, and their music followed them there before it ever hit New York (jazz standards). As word spread about the brilliant new style of music emerging in Chicago, many white musicians actually moved there to get in on the action. What they found astounded them: a rich mosaic of dozens of sounds and beats they had never heard before. Jazz quickly spread to New York, being that it has always been the center for art and music, and jazz soon became known incorrectly as a product of the Harlem Renaissance. America’s entire culture then began to shift to suit this new soulful way of life; clothes, dances, even moral standards began to loosen up to the rhythm of jazz (the people history).
One of the most popular genres of music known to mankind today is the music of jazz. During the mid 1910’s, many of the nation 's population were living in the urban areas causing for ethnic diversity and a era for people to learn to express themselves. The 1920s brought many advancements to today 's society especially in music. Jazz was making its debut in the 1920s, which is why it is known as the ‘Jazz Age’. From the 1920 's through the late 1950 's jazz was shaped from the absolute entirety of African American.
Jazz is a genre of music with a base from early African-American styled music.
The period after the end of the Great Depression during which jazz music became the most popular music style in USA and also in Britain, France and other European countries, especially among young people, is called the Jazz Age. It is connected with the Roaring Twenties during which there was economic prosperity and spreading of Western culture particulary in big cities. New technologies, which we use in improved form also today, like automobiles and radio were important parts of this period. " New consumer goods – radios, telephones, refrigerators, and all above the motor car – made life better and they were easier to buy thanks to vastly expanded consumer credit system“ (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2017).
Jazz music since its beginning has played a large role on influencing people. It has helped create new forms of expression through dancing, it has helped break social and ethnic barriers and it has brought people together through collaboration and experience. An unexpected impact jazz has had on society and other musicians is its large influence on drug and alcohol addiction.
These forms of music were popular among both the young and older generations of African Americans. However, outside of the African American race, jazz and hip-hop has become a performance by people of all race and ages. Buddy Bolden invented jazz in 1877 in New Orleans (the guardian, 2010). That is where jazz is known to get its main influence from. It derived its style from two different types of street music; string bands and percussion bands.
The history of jazz is quite intriguing. Jazz was “born” in New Orleans, Louisiana and the Deep South. It appeared in the 1800’s. Jazz uses American instruments especially trumpets and saxophones.
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, often called the grandfather of jazz, pioneered the artform and to this day is considered one of the most influential musicians of all time. When asked to describe jazz, he famously responded “If you have to ask, you’ll never know”. Many have criticised this reply for its vague nature and for not directly answering the question, but I believe this quote describes jazz and its purpose perfectly. What Armstrong was trying to say was that jazz is meant to be felt rather than thought about. The purpose of improvisational music is to provide a framework for musicians to display unique creative ideas through spontaneous improvisation, and in doing so, communicating with the audience in a way that other genres of music simply
