... feeling. The Roaring Twenties was also known as the Jazz Age and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense due to the many fads, or styles or activities that are popular for short amounts of time, that ran through the nation. Fads of the Roaring Twenties included Flagpole sitting, the dance marathon, and a Chinese game, Mah-jongg. Large pursuers of these crazy fads ... were women called Flappers. Flappers were against traditional ways of thinking and acting and did anything to be different. They wore their hair bobbed, and their dresses short. They wore makeup, smoked in public and drank in speakea...

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... crowd. Here he played his first composition " What you gonna do when the bed brakes down?" The kids at the danced absolutely loved it and begged him to play more since he didn't know any other song he played it again improvising heavily, by the end of the evening the song had become a hit. While on ... referred to as a monster on the piano. This man was Harvey Brooks and he was in Philadelphia. Duke decided on his way back to washington that he must hear him play. The sound of Brooks" music to Duke was invigorating, it was fuel to push his desire to continue, to strive to be the best. "W...

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... . Nunnery English 102 August 1, 2000 The stylistic, 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 ... Blues or "12-bar blues", as it is called, has a standard chord progression. The song never changes, but allows one to improvise. A soloist could play 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 ... to sur...

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... me an idea of Louis Armstrong'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 ... didn't land smack on the beat but came unexpectedly a little early or late, he made the music seem to leap along. Then, too, he didn't play his notes evenly, but accented some and passed lightly over others, so that music seemed to be alive, to breathe" (Collier, p63). "Jazz wa...

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... 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 ... he was use to doing occasionally. This was the first recorded example of what became known as "scat singing." In 1929 Armstrong was hired to play in the pit band of the popular all black musical review 'Hot Chocolates' on Broadway. The show was a great success and Louis stole th...

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... every stop they would go to in America, they would get off and find music stores and find sheet music and learn how to play this western style music. 7 Once they returned back to the liners, they would play the music there and teach themselves hot to dance the proper way to this music style, dances like the foxtrot. When they return ... home, these orchestras would play in hotel lobbies and play ragtime, foxtrot, or jazz.8 The Japanese had to improvise the majority of the time when playing this style of music, but it was not as big of a deal as American ... ...

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... . Out of all these changes, possibly one of the most drastic was that of the women. As sex became more popular and common, the women started to cut their hair short, smoke cigarettes, drink booze, and show a lot more skin than before. They wanted to become more desireable. These women became known as flappers. When searching the website, http://www.pandorasbox ... , there are some great pictures that immediately show up on the screen. These pictures show just how life back then was for women. There are pictures of women dancing with short hair and a lot of makeup covering their face. This...

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... Fats Waller and his Rhythm'. Waller was also the mentor of Count' Basie, one of the great band leaders of the swing era along with Duke' Ellington. Everybody wanted to play for either Baise or Ellington, and you were recognized as a good musician once you were part of either one of these bands. Thanks to Fats Waller, Basie, was loved by ... combine a melodic swing style and back it up with a fortified rhythm was what raised the bar for upcoming piano artists. Art Tatum, also known as the ambidextrous genius. Tatum could play the piano with both hands, and was also influenced by Fats Wal...

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... singing on the streets, but under Mr. Davis he began to study music. First learning vocals, and then percussion, then he became the 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 ... music of Jazz survived many years and he is one of the reasons. Louis Daniel (Satchmo) Armstrong was one of the greatest trumpet players ever. He was given a gift to play the trumpet and to sing and he used his gift to the greatest amount. Everyone...

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... standards for all later jazz singers, by creating scat singing: singing meaningless syllables instead of words, not unlike instrumental improvisation. During the 1920s, large groups of jazz musicians began to play together, forming the big bands that became so popular in the 1930s and early 1940s, (the swing era). The development of the big band can be majorly credited to the ... , alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, and pianists Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. This new approach became known as bebop, or bop. Most bop musicians had exceptional techniques that enabled them to play long, dazz...

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... their name. It had become a hot spot that songwriters, producers, promoters and agents hung out. An agent named Joe Glaser heard Billie sing and signed her on the spot. After a short spur of prostitution, she finally made her professional debut as a singer. By the time she was twenty the jazz world seemed to be at Billie Holiday's feet. John Hammond signed ... ...

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... as a model for artists such as Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and even, harmonically, Louis Armstrong always supported his classic way of playing the instruments as he used to play in his hometown, the fact that allowed its dynamic rhythms and his fantastic vocal sound became popular with the great contribution of ''scat'' (where the voice starts dropping words into ... ...

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... and pouring it out not only for himself but for others to enjoy and relate to (GHDI). As Louis Armstrong once said, "Music is all the same because you play them both with art, you express yourself" (GHDI). Modern Hip-Hop serves its performers in the same way enabling them to express themselves. Rapper Busta Rhymes displays this when ... ...

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Ferdinand Joseph "Jelly Roll Morton" LaMenthe was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 20, 1890. As a child he began to learn how to play the piano at age 10 years old. He was taught by Tony Jackson, composer of songs like "Pretty Boy" and other hits. Tony Jackson is among the few musicians whom ... ...

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... plays the chords in a similar fashion. The drummer uses some percussive tools but does not pound his drums like the drummer in the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The two cornets play the melody and intertwine with one another while the clarinet plays obbligato. The bass plays a barely audible figure which sounds syncopated. The biggest difference in this song is the use ... ...

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... plays the chords in a similar fashion. The drummer uses some percussive tools but does not pound his drums like the drummer in the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The two cornets play the melody and intertwine with one another while the clarinet plays obbligato. The bass plays a barely audible figure which sounds syncopated. The biggest difference in this song is the use ... ...

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... by the guitar in the 1930's, where a smoother, quieter form of rhythm and chords was required. Other instruments have virtually disappeared only to come back later with a different role to play. This is seen with the tuba, which began as a rhythm instrument, and was replaced by the stringed bass at the end of the 1920s but returned in the late 1940 ... ...

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... . Louis was a poor orphan, and at the age 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 ... ...

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... . Louis was a poor orphan, and at the age 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 ... ...

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... accompanied by the piano played by Dana Brown. In the actual program of the recital the terms allegro, adagio, and moderato are mentioned. Throughout the recital these terms come into play because momentarily at different intervals they played fast, slow, or medium. Also in the selections they gradually increase the tempo and gradually decrease the tempo, which are the terms accelerando ... ...

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... Sidney Bechet were creating a different type of music out of blues and ragtime. By the 1920's Louis Armstrong was recognized when he left New Orleans to go to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After his success with the band, he moved to New York where he had a great impact on the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra with new musical vocabulary ... ...

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