King of jazz

... such as Bix Beiderbecke and Jack Teagarden. Even though Armstrong was comfortable in New Orleans, in the summer of 1922, he received a phone call from King Oliver who had asked him to go to Chicago to join his Creole Jazz Band playing as second cornet. Armstrong took in the offer and he soon took Chicago by surprise, shocking them with his outstanding performances ... on September 28, 1991. In 1993, Quincy Jones brought Miles Davis his final Grammy. The honor was just another testament to the musician's powerful and long lasting influence of jazz. Jazz consisted of many musicians who we...

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... indiscriminately, melodically or tonally. Thus 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 small bands, that took the music ... of these older men and increased the complexity and dynamic of their music, as well as gaining greater commercial ... ...

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... geographically closer to the southern states. In fact, it wasn't until after the stock market crash of 1929 that New York took over as the Jazz Capital (Kenney). Another style of Jazz that developed in Chicago during the 1920s was known as Society Dance Bands. These were mainly big ... bands designed primarily for dancing. These bands were so successful that earlier "giants" of Jazz such as King Joe Oliver tried to copy their sound ("Jazz, the First Thirty Years"). The next type of jazz to develop during the 1920s was known as Urban Blues. This was played primarily in ... an area known ...

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... to originate in the United States, it quickly became known as "America's classical music." The jazz/blues connection began in the 1920's with the merging of some of the most talented and creative musicians in the business. Among the jazz pioneers were the trailblazing New Orleans Rhythm Kings, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Fletcher Henderson. Among the ... with black songs and dances such as the cakewalk. Scott Joplin is the most famous composer of ragtime music. His two popular pieces are, "The Entertainer" and "Maple Leaf R...

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... are flutter tonguing, growling 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. Louis Armstrong, was a profound trumpet player who shaped jazz into a beautiful art. Armstrong's ability to improvise, opened doors for new sounds ... and techniques in jazz. Armstrong is known for the invention of Triton substitution. He produced two generations of jazz singers including Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, ...

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... Fate Marable's band in St. Louis, and stayed with him until 1921. King Oliver left New Orleans in 1919 to go to Chicago, 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 ... , Swing That Music. Louis saved tunes that usually would be just average with his trademark solo. The "musically illiterate" loved to watch him play because of his showmanship and his comedy breaks. He was credited for most of jazz's popularity b...

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... ,"" was never acknowledged as the serious composer that he really was during his lifetime. Nevertheless, Joplin succeeded in earning this title and his music was part of the evolution of jazz. Joplin was born on November 24, 1868, in northeastern Texas to Florence and Giles Joplin. His parents encouraged musical interest in their children; Florence played the banjo and ... Joplin went into the Manhattan State Hospital, where he died at the age of 49. It is assumed that he died of Dementia paralytica, a manifestation of tertiary syphilis, a general mental and physical deterioration, ending...

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... being teased and beaten up and sadly sometimes being murdered by the older white teenagers because of their skin color, hair texture > > > >There was one man that wanted to change American society his name is Martin L. King, a civil rights leader involved in helping his fellow African Americans. King made a contribution to America by saying his "I have a dream speech-, that changed America forever. Five ... years later King was assonated in 1968, although he died he made the American dream come true. It appears that ... the way how they see blacks, they used to see blacks as dirty peop...

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... jazz fans drew 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 bands or hot bands for example, the bands of Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Andy Kirk and Duke Ellington. The latter were called sweet bands for example the bands of Glenn Miller, Wayne King ... Bongos" recorded in nineteen forty-seven and "Invention for Guitar and Trumpet" in nineteen fifty-two. Although the Swing style may have launched the art status of jazz by placin...

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