... 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 the ... most significant and highly developed music by African Americans. Jazz has many different features such as rhythmic qualities like swing, blue or flatted notes, improvising, and techniques that differentiate the musicians. Swing is a style of Jazz that reminds me of a walking horse. Blues or flatted notes ... are notes that are lowered a half step....

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... pitch. For example, the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues singer, Bessie Smith, is striking in its similarity. Also, the African scale, which contains notes flatted on the 3rd, 7th, and sometimes 5th degrees, is directly translated into blues music, which also incorporates slides into its instrumental form. The inception of this particular singing style and ... scale in blues became the catalyst for the genres that followed it. Developed in the rural South, ... and further to Chicago. Once in place, it took only a decade to become renowne...

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... rhythms of human life and is man's contemporary re-examination of his traditional values. The early influences of tribal drums and the development of gospel, blues and field hollers seems to point out that jazz has to do with human survival and the expression of human life. The origin of the word ... such as Ragtime, Swing, Scat and BeBop. A New Orleans barber by the name of Buddy Bolden picked up his cornet and blew the first stammering notes of jazz in the year of eighteen ninety-one. A half-century later, jazz, Americas great contribution to music crossed the threshold of the univers...

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... 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. Although blues and ragtime had arisen independently of jazz, and continued to exist alongside it, these genres influenced the style and forms of jazz and ... ". In this style, the trumpet carried the melody, the clarinet played showy countermelodies, and the ...

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... his time and ours. Louis grew up in New Orleans, and most will agree that jazz was created here. Louis was able to listen to the sounds of blues. He lived in an area where there were tonks, which were rough bars, and musicians played on the streets. He also listened to the bands on the ... 's book Louis Armstrong an American Success Story, gave 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 melod...

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... African American music, originated by black people for black people; an improvised music; a music characterized by arrhythmic feel called swing; and a music influenced by the blues. But race and ethnicity are not as clear as what the American myths would say. Throughout the history of jazz, there have been people of other races ... all rags being rhythmically more flexible with the left and right hands set apart in syncopated tension. This is classic ragtime. West End Blues For the first half of his life, everything Armstrong did was copied as fast as he could record it, but this 1928 re...

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... for New Orleans traditional music during the Jazz Age. From this style four major types of jazz sprouted: Boogie-woogie, Chicago Jazz, Urban Blues, and Society Dance Bands. As mentioned before, the thriving night life guaranteed these musicians work, but the popularity of phonograph recordings also provided ... New York. During the 1920s, New York boasted numerous schools of jazz such as the Harlem big bands, the Harlem Piano School, urban blues, and society dance bands. It was also in New York that "spasm" bands began to catch on (Charters). The most creative period ... the center of ...

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... basis of the music has always been portrayed with the African-American race. This was accumulated from the rhythm "n" blues era. I always felt that jazz and blues were a very similar type of music. The blues, like all of jazz, are capable of expressing human emotions and can be played in every tempo from funeral slowness ... 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 w...

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... the song is often just a starting point or frame of reference for the musicians to improvise around. The song might have been a popular ditty or blues that they didn't compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the original ... early 1900s as some dance band leaders in the southern U.S. began playing music that combined ragtime and blues. Early exponents of this dance music were Jelly Roll Martin and Scott Joplin, who were both blues players. The terms "Jazz" and "Jazz Band" first surfaced in the year 1900. Some ...

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... in 1956, Billie decided to share her lifestory with thee worrld. Her autobiography Lady Sings the Blues, with the help of Willian Dufty was written. Accompanying the autobiography, Billie released the album "Lady Sings The Blues". The album included four nonus records tracks, ""Lady Sings The Blues" (title track), "Too Marvelous For Words", "Willow Weep For Me", and "U Thought About You", as well ... . Holiday has been and continues to be an influence on many other performers who have followed in her footsteps. Her autobiography was made into the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues with singe...

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... pieces set before him. In 1912, Morton briefly settled in Chicago's South Side where he published his first number, " The Jelly Roll Blues," which was brought out by William Rossiter. He traveled with this piece as far as New York and as far west as California where ... Brother as well as fronting his own bands. During these years of travel, Morton apparently fused a variety of black musical idioms- ragtime, vocal and instrumental blues, items from the minstrel shows repertory, field and levee hollers, religious hymns, and spirituals- with Hispanic music from the Caribbean and white pop...

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... origin date back to the 1890's, created in the heart of New Orleans by mainly those of Afro-American descent. Early exponents of this dance music were Jelly Roll Martin (a blues player) and Scott Joplin (ragtime). The terms "Jazz" and "Jazz Band" first surfaced in the year 1900. Some say this occurred in New Orleans, although similar music was played at ... were to be played. Throughout the history of Jazz, however, notation was more like a rough sketch. This was because the syncopated rhythms of ragtime and the melodic riffs of the blues were not easily notated. Also, early Jazz musici...

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"Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" and "Dippermouth Blues" are two recordings that are from the 1920s yet have remarkable differences between the two. The differences could stem from a variety of reasons such as differences in the ethnicity of ... and handles the stop time fills while the cornet plays the actual melody. The song's form is very repetitive and there is little difference between the repeats of sections. "Dippermouth Blues" is very different from "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step". The instrument featured are the piano, trombone, trumpet, two cornets, bass, and drums. Two of the more obvious di...

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"Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" and "Dippermouth Blues" are two recordings that are from the 1920s yet have remarkable differences between the two. The differences could stem from a variety of reasons such as differences in the ethnicity of ... and handles the stop time fills while the cornet plays the actual melody. The song's form is very repetitive and there is little difference between the repeats of sections. "Dippermouth Blues" is very different from "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step". The instrument featured are the piano, trombone, trumpet, two cornets, bass, and drums. Two of the more obvious di...

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... well.3 There are many unanswered questions to how it started there, but architects are quite certain about where it has originated from. Before jazz music came about, the origination on blues music came about. This genre of music recognized the pain on losing a loved one and prejudice and gave expression to the sadness of a heart break or facing down any hardship ... .4 Blues music helped set the platform for jazz music in the US. Jazz music had become very popular in the 1900s and many famous musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, ... ...

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... in the formative years is not an easy task. The music called jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often by more than one player at a time (Alexander 2001). Recordings of Jazz did not begin until ... to be sure. What is even more absurd is that there is ample evidence to support his claim. There is no doubt that Morton had music not covered by the blues or ragtime and that he applied a swinging to a variety of music. He...

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... his name as bandleader. The songs on the first Okeh 78 rpm record were "My Heart", and "Yes, I'm in the Barrel". Songs such as "Cornet Chop Suey", "Potato Head Blues", and "West End Blues", recorded later, turned jazz into a soloist's art form. The Okeh recordings not only changed Jazz, but also revealed Louis as a pioneering vocalist. During the February 26, 1926 recording ... ...

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... , Dolly'' in 1969. Consequently, with the two bands that he formed Hot Five and Hot Seven, recorded many themes that would cause much furor such as the composition ''West end Blues'', in which the final chorus by Armstrong was a masterpiece or of the song "Heebie Jeebies" which would be the first time where he began inventing words, when in a recording session ... ...

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... to the Harlem Cabaret area, occasionally doubling as a theatre organist and as a. piano-roll artist for the Q-R-S Company. Before 1930 Fats would have already performed as the pianist for great blues singer Bessie Smith. The advantage that Fats had growing up, was his tutor, James P. Johnson, better known as the founding father of stride piano. Waller learned most of his characteristics ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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... than any specific feature of the melodic or harmonic construction. Holiday's music continues to be incredibly popular, and the best window into her life is her autobiography, Lady Sings The Blues....

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... 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. One of the heroes of Jazz was Louis Armstrong who aided in the creation of ... ...

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... . 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 was recognized when he left New Orleans to go to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After his success with the ... ...

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... on all the time. Jazz started in cities 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 Duke Ellington changed the radio forever. They were very talented jazz musicians ... ...

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James Baldwin and Alice Walker, both wrote about and lived through problems concerning African Americans in the 1900's. These problems affected them on global and local levels. Baldwin wrote in "Notes of a Native Son- about his struggles with the hatred that surrounded and almost eventually consumed him. Baldwin uses a personal account of his life and well-known history he lived through ... , Baldwin's evidence seems more real, because it is coming directly from him, not this "he said- "she said- writing that Walker likes to use. Baldwin's evidence is very personal. Since "Notes of a Native ...

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