By: Jala Stubbs
The Story of Jazz
Born in New Orleans (Traditional (Trad) Jazz
⁃ 4 Major Beats
Buddy Bolden (trumpet player)
⁃ Led the First Jazz Band
⁃ Was worried about Scott Joplin & other Ragtime Artists
⁃ Louisiana State Insane Asylum
Jelly Roll Morton (also ragtime)
Louis Armstrong
⁃ Potato Head Blues (May 10, 1927)
⁃ Trumpet, Clarinet, Banjo
October 8 Story of Jazz Notes
⁃ Jazz is on the upbeat (difference between Jazz & Classical)
⁃ Representative of the World, a world music
⁃ Origins in West Africa, blends many cultures to make a new music
⁃ Slave trade from the Caribbean, vent frustration & pain, congo square (seeds of jazz)
⁃ important instrument was the gourd, draw bone, banjo
⁃ richard hoffman
⁃ Ragtime was an extension of ____ music
freddy keeper joe oliver & louis armstrong (trumpeters)
Louis Armstrong
⁃ consolidated all of the former aspects of jazz
⁃ Father of the organized solo
Turn of the Centry NOLA
⁃ melting pot of cultures for music
⁃ offered plenty of work for musicians
Freddy Kepler
⁃ LA
Morton Kane East
⁃ Chicago & Detroit
DixieLand Jazz Band
⁃ only appealed to those who hadn’t heard traf jazz
Records were important for the spread of recorded jazz
Joe King Oliver
⁃ Chicago 1919
Southern black migrants were a receptive audience for Jazz
Jazz made the 1920’s roar.
Lili Harvey – pianist for Joe Oliver’s band
Jazz became synonymous with the cultural renaissance happening in Harlem
jazz = promiscuity, intoxicating, and animal like fury
Duke Ellington (pianist) brought class to Jazz.
⁃ his range expressed American life
1930 – Jazz was worldwide (Europe, South America, & Asia)
William Basie – Kansas City (heart of southwest band music)
Bennie Moten
Basie played all types of blues. (Basie Band)
⁃ swing, slow, fast, sad, funny blues
Pete johnson (pianist)
Mary Lou Williams – piano
charlie parker – saxophone
Bands most promotional tool was live radio.
Benny Goodman – King of Swing (white counterparts were topics of media interest)
