... countries take ideals from American culture and make it into their own. One ideal that is a part of American culture would be the music, jazz in particular. Jazz is known as an American musical invention since it was originated there, but this music has branched out into many other places around the world ... string as 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 a...

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... Memphis, St. Louis and finally Chicago. Of course that seems to be the history of what we now refer to as jazz, however, the influences of what led to those early New Orleans sounds goes way back to tribal African drum beats and European musical structures. The ... , the musician shifts the accent to a normally unaccented beat (World Book 1986). The cornet player, Buddy Bolden is generally considered to be the first real Jazz musician. Other early players included Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, and Clarence Williams. Although these musicians" names are unknown to most people, then and now...

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... defined as, "A kind of syncopated, highly rhythmic music originated by Southern blacks in the late 19th century". But, everyone should at least agree that jazz is the mother of all music, and is referred to as the only art form originating in the United States. America was home to immigrants from all over Europe and ... . 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...

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... 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 and religions - whites of several nationalities, Cubans, Mexicans, native Americans, Haitians and overseas Europeans of ... come back in the forties even if it was declining before. This is in reaction to bop that some people found to aggressive. This type of jazz used a lot of instrumentation: Trumpet; clarinet; trombone, sax, piano; guitar (usually), bass, drums. And sometimes horns. Swing rhythm is emphasise...

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... 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 ... structure do not exactly interact well with the styles of most of the white origin. Besides improvising on the blues at fast and slow tempos, the jazz soloist must extemporize new melodies based on the chord changes of popular songs not related to the blues, like Gershwin's I Got Rhythm (24). ...

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... on piano, and Tony Spargo on drums. The band members were all anglo-saxon men who were from New Orleans but met in Chicago. The "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" is a very fast and almost frantic song performed in a rag style. The drummer plays a boom-chick feel in many parts of ... 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 differences in the ...

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... on piano, and Tony Spargo on drums. The band members were all anglo-saxon men who were from New Orleans but met in Chicago. The "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" is a very fast and almost frantic song performed in a rag style. The drummer plays a boom-chick feel in many parts of ... 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 differences in the ...

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... times. On New Year's in 1913, Louis shot off a pistol into the air and was arrested. This turned out to be a very fortunate occurrence for Jazz and probably for him; he was admitted to the city's Colored Waif's Home for Boys. In this home he began his tutorship of Peter Davis who ... and Louis took his place in Kid Ory's band, at the suggestion of Oliver. One year later Joe Oliver asked Armstrong to play in his Creole Jazz Band at Lincoln Gardens in Chicago. Playing second cornet to Oliver helped Louis develop his ear and harmonies. While playing in this band Armstrong met Lillian ... a...

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... shakes, and different. The names associated with the birth of jazz are Buddy Bolden and Jellyroll Morton. Different forms of jazz are work songs, field hollers, Negro spirituals, gospel songs, ragtime, and blues. (Morrison 48) Alexander 2 Jazz started about 1910. Jazz made it's first appearance on records in 1917 by the original Dixieland Jazz Band. The same year other mucians cut records such as New ... Orleanians Sidney Bechet and Jellyroll Morton, and the blues singer Bessie Smith a native of Memphis Tennessee.(Morrison 49) The first Big Jazz Band came about 1923. It was called King O...

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... stay long in one band too long because he was too eccentric and too temperamental, and he was a one-man band himself", said by bandleader George Morrison whom Morton played for in Denver. Morton really wanted to be the extreme musician. After that he toured the south in a minstrel show for about a ... music from the Caribbean and white popular songs, creating a musical amalgam that bore a very close resemblance to the music then beginning to be called "Jazz". While Morton was in California, other black composers and musicians began publishing their songs, but he did not. After seven year...

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... returned back in Chicago and he began recording a series of music. "He made a series of small band recordings that rank among the masterpieces of jazz"(Cook 723). The names used for the recordings were the Hot Five and Hot Seven. "They showed his brilliant tone and tremendous range"(Cook 723). ... on Louis starred playing the trumpet (Armstrong1 1). This was just was closer for Louis Armstrong to becoming a popular entertainer. He still contributed to jazz through bands, and he did by playing in bands. His agent soon realized that he was the main source of attention in the bands. They .....

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... Collier'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 melody a ... 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 was invented in New Orleans. It is hard to say why it happened there and not anywhere else" (Collier, p52). New Orleans was t...

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... time. 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 ... make great use of this website. This particular site is set up in a fashion that makes it easy to do research on flappers and the Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was a very important part of history as well. This is after the second industrial revolution when the invention of radios hit ...

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... music itself that would revolutionize not only the black and white society, but also the whole world and that fact was: the beginning of Jazz in the town of New Orleans, its spread, but above all, the discovery of a charismatic and innovative character that marked a before and ... of music called ''the famous trumpeter Louis Armstrong." Furthermore, this American man, as the years passed, marked a large global recognition because he transformed jazz that from its beginnings was a kind of dance music with folk roots, in a commercial art form, laying his career at first, for his ....

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... of royalty as Davidson put it, but she also thought that the title had something to do with Jazz and the famous jazz musician, Duke Ellington. Davidson thought that this magazine was going to 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 ... point very much, but rather scratched the surface of it. Davidson then made her finally point about the ...

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... was in full effect. Names like Louis Armstrong, Duke' Ellington, and Count' Basie 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 ... ' wasn't one of the greatest piano players, his band as a whole was one of the best sources of entertainment in big band era and early 1900's. Jazz musicians in this time were known to be huge drugs addicts. Most experienced with heroin and cocaine. But Fats was not a junky, he was an alcoholic. Drinking ... . Names lik...

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... the Black Revolution learned a lot of valuable information through the people and the experiences he faced. These situations include his encounters with the famous jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald, his unforgettable prison experience and his adult pilgrimage to Mecca. Those situations helped shape Malcolm X into the proud and highly ... ) being one of those people. Fitzgerald was an American jazz singer, who was considered one of the greatest singers in the history of jazz. Fitzgerald received the name "first lady of song"(Ella Fitzgerald, Encarta), when she successfully brought jazz into t...

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... uncanny sense of swing. She not only stamped her distinctive signature on such standards as "Night And Day," but she also contributed remarkable originals to the jazz canon, including "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless The Child." Influenced by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong, Holiday not only sang with passion and conviction ... 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 her to Columbia records for her debut record along with Benny ...

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... literature, different fashions, new heroes and heroines, and booming business that left everyone with a good 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 ... they set 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 th...

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... 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's sense of presence and beauty. The result would ... the most influential instrumentalist of his generation, and bring him the respect and adulation of musicians of all eras to come, as well as a vast audience beyond jazz that has never stopped growing. In my opinion, Louis Armstrong is the...

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... trumpet players ever known to man. Other than his trumpet, Louis had a great voice for the music he played which was called jazz music. Still today he is known for his music and being one of the pioneer's of jazz and big band. In The Beginning Louis was born in the Storyville District of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. He always ... to follow. To celebrate the New Year in 1913 Louis borrowed a pistol from a friend and shot it in the air and was arrested. This was most likely a good occurrence for Jazz music and a good thing for Louis too. He was admitted to the city's Colored...

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... gave us a very big surprise. We were not prepared for what they had in store, but it was the best part of the whole event. They hit us with a little jazz that had everyone clapping their hands and tapping their feet. I was so amazed at what I was hearing because I did not expect the sound of ... jazz to arouse in a recital with mainly classical music. After the recital everyone got a chance to meet and talked with Hardin Butcher, Dana Brown and Thomas Resnick. Refreshments were served and I ... everybody enjoyed himself or herself. The reason why I attended this event was because I li...

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... 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 and improvisation. From these ... facts along, one can see that Armstrong was very successful during his life time. In 1926 Louis Armstrong returned to Chicago. He was the head liner in jazz clubs, radio, and records. Audiences were very amazed by the way he played his ...

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... played on YouTube 95 million times (Snell). The only way Armstrong was allowed to put his emotions on display publicly was through his music. Jazz for Louis Armstrong was more than just a job or a hobby. To him, jazz was a way of taking everything inside of him and pouring it out not only for himself but for others to enjoy and relate to ... drips of paint on canvas" (Louis Armstrong, 20th Century). He continued with this opinion until, in a moment of introspectiveness, he realized that the paintings were not that different from jazz (Louis Armstrong, 20th Century). They both were seemi...

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... music that formed the 1920's and shaped later music to what it is today. Undoubtedly one of the most accomplished musicians of all time and the forefront leader of the jazz world. Duke didn't always have music on his mind though. Duke, Born Edward Kennedy Ellington was born April 29th ,1899 the son of James William Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington ... 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 so...

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