... mob in Chicago. Gangsters owned most of the clubs in Chicago. Armstrong immediately entered the studios and started recording a series of recording called the Hot Fives and Sevens, which gave him a lasting name. These recordings were some of the most famous made by Armstrong, including "Mandy Make up ... Your Mind" and "Money Blues" (Bergreen 96). . "The Five dozen records generally titled the Louis Armstrong Hot Fives constitute one of the most significant bodies of American recorded music." (Collier P. 169) These records were immediately recognized by musicians, and jazz fans ... do t...

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... to his performances. Armstrong remained in New York for almost a year before returning to Chicago ("The People of Traditional New Orleans Jazz"). Back in Chicago, Armstrong formed a new group, the Hot Five, and recorded again for Okeh records. In this group were three musicians with whom he had played in New Orleans: Kid Ory, Johnny Dodds and Johnny St. Cyr. Lil ... Hardin, Armstrong's wife, played piano and completed the Hot Five. Armstrong added a new element to his performances known as scat, or the use of made-up words to compliment the melody ("The People of Traditional New Orleans...

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... , piano, guitar, bass, violin, and drums. Musicians strove for large, rich tone qualities on their instruments. Solo improvisers did not seek difficulty in their lines so much as lyricism and a hot, confident feeling that was rhythmically undeniable. For these reasons, the musical period of the nineteen-thirties and the nineteen-forties has been called the swing era and big-band era ... distinctions between bands that conveyed the hardest driving rhythmic qualities and extensive solo improvisations and those that conveyed less swing feeling and improvisation. The former were called swing...

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... , in the 1930s and 1940s, jazz reached its popular peak as Big Band or Swing music. It divided into two major classifications of either hot jazz or symphonic jazz. The latter is often referred to as Big Band. Hot jazz carried on the style of New Orleans jazz. Those best well known for popularizing it include; Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, and Bennie ... ...

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... possible that 'jitterbug' dancing incorporates sufficient sex expression to create a minor perversion among adolescents who consciously or subconsciously form the habit of partial expression of sex to the accompaniment of 'hot' music?" These dances created a fit of hysteria among conservative Americans, as well as among religious figures and authorities. Religious figures condemned them to be "Satanic fool's play," "a refined form of ... ...

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