The story of Jazz doc notes By: Amaya Thompson
- Jazz is on the upbeat
- Jazz was a mix between European and African music
- Ragtime predated jazz and influenced it.
- Ragtime was an extension of jock music.
- Buddy bolden was most known as one of the first Jazz musician
- Buddy was a trumpet king
- Louis Armstrong is the father of jazz trumpet and was influenced by buddy.
- New orleans was the prime location for jazz to bloom, offered plenty of work for new musicians
- Most jazz artists are self taught
- Freddy keeper brought jazz to new orleans
- The original dixieland jazz band claimed to create jazz but only white people liked them
- Whites had a monopoly on recording studios, so black people couldnt produce.
- Chicago was a hotbed of jazz, black people traveled there to get a better way of life
- Louis became the greatest jazz trumpet soloist
- Louis armstrong left chicago in 1925 to new york to join the fletcher orchestra
- Duke gained recognition as a band leader
- Duke Ellington’s orchestra became the harlem renaissance
- There was a study the made jazz synonymous with promiscuity
- Religious people did not really like or fully accept Jazz music.
- Ellington was to composing as armstrong was to improv
- Ellington orchestra was one of the only bands to stay constant throughout the years
- Duke made Jazz for multiple occasions not just dancing
- Louis armstrong name was common in europe just as it was in new orleans
- Jazz was traveled around the world, not just america
- Kansas city became the hub of midwestern band activity
- Lester played many types of blues, not just sad blues
- Lester young introduced a new sound on tenor saxophone
- Lex louis played a style called boogie woogie
- Hollywood used jazz in their movies
