... the old. These people, often thought of as second-class, brought their culture with them to America, expressed it musically, and changed the music world as we know it today. Most early jazz was played in small marching bands or by solo pianists. Besides ragtime and marches, the ... repertoire included hymns, spirituals, and blues. The bands played this music at picnics, weddings, parades, and funerals. Characteristically, the bands played hymns on the way to funerals and lively marches on the way back. ... of Duke Ellington and his revolutionary song, "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't...

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... , rhythmic and melodic relationships between blues and jazz Many people have the ability to play an instrument whether it is by ear or actually reading music. Really studying music involves learning music theory and musical form. To understand music you must first know how the song is structured based on chords and rhythmic passages. Blues originated in Missippissi around the nineteenth century. Blues or ... a solo using a blues scale consisting of seven notes and never stop. (Mitchell) For those who didn't know, Jazz originated in New Orleans. Jazz is the most significant and highly dev...

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... performed a harmonious piece from Petronio Francheschini. The two trumpet performers were playing the melody and harmonizing with the piano. Secondly, the dynamics of the music had a fortissimo sound. The trumpet has a very unique sound because it always seems like it's never too loud or never too soft. Hardin ... each selection, year and who proposed it when he was about to present, so the audience could have an understanding of what type of music he was playing. There were times on certain selections Hardin would use a muzzle to create a different sound. The audience consisted of stu...

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... , Armstrong also acted in over thirty movies. He was a gifted actor and he was very happy about his life. He was a composer of jazz music and he wrote dozens of songs - all of them were jazz favourites. He learnt to read music when he was twelve, at an orphanage. He was recording hit songs for five decades. People still listen to his ... music today on either radio, television or in a movie. Armstrong didn't have much spare time, but when he had a break he liked to write. He wrote autobiographies, ten magazine articles and ... ...

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... one of the first to be heard by a nationwide audience. Many of his performances at the Cotton Club in Harlem were broadcast. Such broadcasts were responsible for both popularizing the music, and making its performers household names. Also, as the role of solo improvisation diminished, the bandleader played a much more important role. Thus, Duke Ellington, in conjunction with Billy ... Strayhorn, became known for his carefully, and elegantly composed arrangements. In particular, he created a controversial style known as "Jungle Music."" It contained many African influenced elements, incl...

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... funeral slowness to breakneck speed (22). The two art forms are similar in the instrumental background, but the individual singing elevates the blues, which is not very common in jazz music. This portrayal of the race origin was gained when I attended a blues festival two years ago in Arkansas. All of the blues artists were of the African-American decent. I observed that ... , to becoming a style of which would push the element of a timetable. The individual style of an improvisation structure began the evolution of the experimentation of jazz music. The next step in the evolutionary cha...

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... jazz" (93) The Cotton Club lost some of its freshness as performers played dazzling, yet emotionless jazz but Ellington brought his own style of music which interested the nation's people. During the Cotton Club years, the Duke Ellington Orchestra began to win distinction for its thorough musicians and homogeneity. ... Ellington was fighting to be admired in the popular music business and because of the Cotton Club opportunity, he was. Ellington's first break came when Ted Husing, one of the band's fan, arranged ... all the attention and continued to play. He did not care what he playe...

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... class. Duke was given his nickname by his friends and family, and it stuck with him throughout his life. As a child Duke's family listened to music that had black roots such as ragtime. The family considered jazz something to radical, new and vulgar though for there sophistication so it did not have a ... house where he would give him lessons and teach him so of the tricks of playing excellent piano. Another influential pianist in Dukes learning experience was the music teacher at his high school Harry Grant. Duke's first success as a musician came at a high school dance where he took ...

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... home bugler, and finally cornet. He would play to Taps to wake the boys up and for them to eat. He basically learned marches and other ensemble music. The Early Years After being released from the Waif's home at age fourteen, Louis worked selling papers, unloading boats, and selling coal from a horse cart. ... Armstrong started recording popular songs with other musicians adding backgrounds to his vocals and trumpet solos. He stopped performing live and just recorded lots and lots of music. He became a big hit on the radio and had 15 number one songs. In 1955 he made his first concert t...

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... George Gershwin was called a jazz composer. For Gershwin's concert work he was acclaimed to have made a respectable art form out of jazz. Somewhat similarly, Paul Whiteman. Playing jazz influenced dance music, was billed as the King of Jazz (History of Jazz 2001). The second wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians like Joe"King" Oliver, Kid Ory, and Jelly Roll Morton formed ... Jazz Band that was led by his teacher Joe "King" Oliver (World Book 1986). The late 1920's and early 1930's saw jazz advance from relatively simple music played by performers who often could not read music to a more c...

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... blues. At this same time, four million slaves had become American citizens. The four million slaves mixed their African background with church music that was around them and would create the heart of jazz. Among the artist that had the most important impact on jazz were Clarance ... the early nineteen-thirties and emphasized big band. It spilled into the late nineteen-forty's and then remained popular in recordings, film, and television music. Most swing-style groups had at least 10 musicians and featured at least three or four saxophones, two or three trumpets, two or three trombones .....

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... nationalities, Cubans, Mexicans, native Americans, Haitians and overseas Europeans of all sorts involved in its creation. The first problem with doing a history of a music that has its roots entangled among so many different cultures is how to go about determining sources and origins. That's why jazz is so interesting to so ... to list 2 different forms Swing: This jazz style appeared in the thirties. It is qualify by elaborated orchestration, nice rhythm, and great melody. This music is really energetic and makes this type of jazz accessible to a larger public. With swing, jazz quit his...

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... , and musicians played on the streets. He also listened to the bands on the steamboats. Louis was a good singer so he taught himself about music and he developed perfect pitch, which is being able to hear a tune or note and being able to identify it correctly. He and a few ... 's journey to becoming a great jazz musician. Louis Armstrong grew up listening to the blues, not jazz. When Armstrong began to play, he understood the music more than many other performers. Louis would change the melody a little when he played and he gave jazz more of a swing than others had. " ... was already deve...

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... were going to be a part of jazz history forever. As jazz became the backbone for most of the music that is heard today, many names were going to be recognized for their contributions to music history. One of them being Thomas Fats' Waller. Born May 21st, 1904, in New York, Fats was ... thing that happened to him, his enthusiasm grew bigger every day after he met Anita, his songs and his music was more joyful and enjoyable, and his performances even more delightful. Waller contributed to music in many diff erent ways, besides being an amazing pianist, a great entertainer and a skillful so...

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... Roaring Twenties The Roaring Twenties was a decade of fun and general good feeling in the United States. The country was caught up in new music, new dances, new games, blossoming literature, different fashions, new heroes and heroines, and booming business that left everyone with a good feeling ... new trends for women's hairstyles, makeup, and clothes. The Roaring Twenties was a decade for music in the U.S. A new type of music, Jazz, was created by Black musicians in New Orleans from ragtime and blues. The new music was quick to spread through the United States, then through the world. O...

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... Boys. In this home he began his tutorship of Peter Davis who was the music instructor there. He began to study music, first vocal, and then percussion, then he became a bugler, and finally began to play a cornet. The music he played was very structured, mostly marches and other ensemble music. Armstrong was released from the waif's home at fourteen and began work. He sold ... recordings not only changed Jazz, but also revealed Louis as a pioneering vocalist. During the February 26, 1926 recording session of "Heebie Jeebies" in Chicago, according to Louis himself, the sheet music fell of...

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... Billie Holiday's feet. John Hammond signed her to Columbia records for her debut record along with Benny Goodman and his band. By 1936, she had begun to record her own music. Her recordings became a masterpiece to the name jazz. She had done recordings with such artist like Count Basie in 1937 and Artie Shaw in 1938. She was also featured on ... considered to be one of the vivid manifestations achieved by a singer. Untrained and no knowledge Billie was able to create the most sophisticated music effect. A completely natural singer who never took a serious music lesson in her life, she r...

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... . If that is not enough information, there are several links offered for the reader to search further on this topic. Other links consist of, The 1920's, Jazz Age Dance, and Music of the 1920's. This website, by Thomas Gladys, is very colorful and informative. It includes a lot of pictures that help to get a good visual of what life was really like ... such as St. Louis, Kansas City, and Chicago. Later it made it to New York. The first form of jazz was the blues, the sufferings of African Americans expressed through music. Some great musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and ...

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... even more to grieve her loss. Although she was struggling in her personal life, she she was a becoming somewhat of a jazz icon as well as becoming a major star in pop music. She got an opportunity to star alogside her idol Louis Armstrong in the 1947 film New Orleans, playing the role of a maid. Because of her use of drugs and heavy ... made into the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues with singer Diana Ross playing the part of Holiday, which helped create peoples interest and love of her pure and beautiful music....

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... of 12, he was sent to a reform school for firing a gun into the air on New Years Eve. There, he learned to play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument at the time, he enjoyed listening to "The Hot Style Band", and his favorite musician was Joe King Oliver, who acted as the ... , he moved back to New Orleans, to form his own band. Louis hired Joe Glaser as his manager, and Joe took care of everything, leaving Louis to focus on his music. They hired the musicians from Joe King Oliver's Group, and renamed the band "Louis Armstrong and His...

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... of 12, he was sent to a reform school for firing a gun into the air on New Years Eve. There, he learned to play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument at the time, he enjoyed listening to "The Hot Style Band", and his favorite musician was Joe King Oliver, who acted as the ... , he moved back to New Orleans, to form his own band. Louis hired Joe Glaser as his manager, and Joe took care of everything, leaving Louis to focus on his music. They hired the musicians from Joe King Oliver's Group, and renamed the band "Louis Armstrong and His...

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... tender young age of eleven, the juvenile court sent him away to a home for shooting a pistol. At the home (Jones Home for Colored Waifs) is where he began his first music lessons, and also played in the brass band. He stayed in the Jones home for approximately a year in a half. After leaving the home, Armstrong supported himself by playing with pick ... was his mentor. At the time there were very few musicians in New Orleans. During this time Joe Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, and Sidney Bechet were creating a different type of music out of blues and ragtime. By the 1920's Louis Armstrong w...

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... many times in his live before he became a great musician. His talent and his willing to learn from other musicians made him a great musician. He learns so much about jazz music from Joe "king" Oliver. Louis Armstrong changed the musical landscape at his time. He was the first jazz artist who combined trumpet and an original musical vision with an entertainer ... sometimes during his performance he also doing some acting on the stage. He doesn't want his audience just sit down on their chair. He wants them to dance with his music and he loves to see them smile, maybe that's the reason wh...

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... primarily deal with jazz and jazz culture. Shockingly to her surprise and mine, it had very little to do with Ellington, but it still dealt with some parts of jazz music. Davidson had four points about Duke that she talked about, and then opened up for Q&A session. The first point that she made was that the magazine was trying to enter ... Davidson has her next lecture, which is on Friday November 14th, I am considering listening in on it. She and another man are going to be presenting something dealing with jazz music. ...

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... of her finest records of her career. It was also at this time she would prove her self worthy of being part of the who's who of Jazz and Swing music. "Holiday hoped to combine Louis Armstrong's swing and Bessie Smith's sound -(Yanow). The result was her own fresh sound. She had a small voice and did not scat but her innovative ... ). Her birth name and place had been wrong for several years and had to be changed on her tomb stone (Walker). " It was how she seemed to live through her music that made her so unique. Hell, anybody can sing a song; but when you the listener can identify with ...

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