- Jazz characterized as the upbeat genre
- Considered shameful to participate in jazz, associated with sin
- Formed out of Africans combining traditional music with European sounds
- Born in New Orleans, spread across the country as musicians traveled
- Started out of ragtime
- Dixieland jazz band called themselves creators of jazz
- Research associating jazz with sexuality
- Buddy Bolden: first jazz musician
- Louis Armstrong:father of jazz, most successful and recognized for trumpet solo, household name around the world
- Coleman Hawkins: brought saxophone into jazz music
- PJ Harvey
- Duke Ellington: influential as band leader and part of Harlem Renaissance
- Charlie Parker: saxophonist
