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The Age of Jazz

By: Sofia Otley

What is Jazz?

Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. Jazz uses improvisation, blue notes, swing, call and response, polyrhythms . , and syncopation.

Jazz formed in the United States

The period of jazz started from the end of the First World War until the start of the Great Depression in 1929 is known as the " Jazz Age ".

Music in The Age of Jazz

Jazz is a genre of music that originated in African American communities in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th century. It emerged in the form of independent popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American music.

Instruments Used

Double bass , drums , guitar , piano , saxophone , trumpet , clarinet , trombone , vocals , harmonica, Hammond organ , and bass are just a few used in a jazz band.

Styles of Jazz

Main Genres

Blues, folk , marches , ragtime , and classical music

Avant-garde jazz , Bebop , Big band , Chamber jazz , Cool jazz , Free jazz , Gypsy jazz , Hard Bop , Latin jazz , Mainstream jazz , Modal jazz , M-Base , Neo-bop , Post-bop , Soul jazz , Swing , Third stream , and Traditional jazz

Fusion Genres

Acid jazz Afrobeat , Bluegrass , Crossover jazz , Dansband , Folk jazz , Free funk , Humppa , Indo jazz , Jam band , Jazzcore , Jazz funk , Jazz fusion , Jazz rap , Kwela , Mambo , Manila Sound , Nu jazz , Nu soul , Punk jazz , Shibuya-kei , Ska jazz , Smooth jazz , Swing revival , and World fusion

Some Popular Artist

Fletcher Henderson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU0ybjKEuX8

Paul Whiteman : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFurKUxafRk

Duke Ellington : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmCY

Count Basie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAko7E

Louis Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLjbMBpGDA

Ella Fitzgerald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epRXoS_P0lk

Miles Davis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c

Transformation of Jazz

1910: New Orleans jazz began combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles , biguine , ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation .

1930: Heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands , Kansas City jazz , a hard-swinging, bluesy, and improvisational style.

1940: Gypsy jazz (a style that emphasized musette waltzes) were the prominent styles. Bebop started shifting jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music" which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, linear melodic lines.

1950s :The start of free jazz , which explored playing without regular meter, beat and formal structures. In the mid-1950s, hard bop , which introduced influences from rhythm and blues and gospel music; especially with saxophone and piano playing. Modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode or musical scale as the basis of musical structure and improvisation.

1960s- 70s: Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments and the highly amplified stage sound of rock.

1980s: A commercial form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful, garnering significant radio airplay. Other styles and genres abound today, such as Latin jazz and Afro-Cuban jazz .

Harlem Renaissance

Harlem became a mecca for African Americans seeking to embrace their own cultural heritage. Expressions of African American culture encompassed literature, performance, and visual arts. It also produced new works in the areas of sociology, history and philosophy as an educated African American middle class emerged Speakeasies and night clubs abounded in urban areas as Prohibition was routinely circumvented or ignored outright.Bigotry in American society remained a formidable obstacle, but jazz music and the culture it produced offered Americans an unprecedented opportunity to interact with one another regardless of race. White patrons routinely frequented jazz clubs to listen to African American performers like Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, and Duke Ellington.

White people began to come to Harlem in droves. For several years they packed the expensive Cotton Club on Lenox Avenue. But the Cotton Club was a Jim Crow club for gangsters and monied whites. They were not cordial to Negro patronage, unless you were a celebrity like Louis. So Harlem Negroes did not like the Cotton Club and never appreciated its Jim Crow policy in the very heart of their dark community. Nor did ordinary Negroes like the growing influx of whites toward Harlem after sundown, flooding the little cabarets and bars where formerly only colored people laughed and sang, and where now the strangers were given the best ringside tables to sit and stare at the Negro customers—like amusing animals in a zoo.

Women in Jazz

Women were normally the singers of the genre, however dating back to the early 1920s women instrumentalists can be found, with the piano being one of the earliest instruments used which allowed female artists a degree of social acceptance.When the men got drafted for the war numerous women in big band jazz bands took over. However, with the division of skin color, there was no real band that any one society listened to. The International Sweethearts of Rhythm was the all women jazz band best known during these times. Despite the harsh dress code of women at the time of strapless dresses and high heeled shoes, women were being hired into many of the big league big bands.

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• African slaves in the American South began using European musical instruments in the early 19th century
• They incorporated their tribal musical traditions with European minstrel performances
• Scott Joplin and others popularized Ragtime music in the late 19th century and early 20th century
• Along with Ragtime, southern Dixie music created many of the foundations for what would later be called Jazz
• Jazz music became more popular in the 1920s and 1930s with the rise of Swing music and the big band orchestras
• Many of Jazzs pioneers (Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald) were making influential music at this time
• Jazzs popularity continued to grow in the 1940s, but a counter jazz movement (called Bebop) influenced what was to come later in Jazz music
• Musicians like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie led the Bebop movement
• Miles Davis broke from his early Bebop days and started a new Jazz movement (Cool Jazz) in the 1950s and 1960s
• This period had the peak and the start of the decline of Jazzs popularity (Rock n Roll was rising at this time)
• From the 1970s to today, Jazz music has lost a lot of its popularity
• Experimental artists like Ornette Coleman and the Free Jazz movement were not popular with mainstream listeners
• Ken Burns documentary on Jazz brought back some of the interest in this genre

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JAZZ DANCE HISTORY. ORIGINS OF JAZZ DANCE. People of African and Caribbean decent, performed dances that represented different cycles of life including; birth, puberty, marriage, and death.

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ORIGINS OF JAZZ DANCE • People of African and Caribbean decent, performed dances that represented different cycles of life including; birth, puberty, marriage, and death. • Africans were brought into America as slaves and were subjected to the restriction on a European dominated culture. • Because of the European dominated culture, dance was therefore regulated into a form of socialization and entertainment instead of religious rituals. • Americans realized they could relate themselves to certain characteristics of Africans in the 19th Century. This led to the rise of minstrel shows.

THE ROARING 20’s and the 1930’s • The beginning of the Jazz Age. • Popular dance steps were introduced such as; the “Jitterbug”, the “Boogie-Woogie”, and the “Lindy Hop”. • Singing and dancing to songs on the radio became popular throughout this era. • Broadway producers saw an opportunity to hire dancers and have them appear in shows.

The 1940’s WWII Era • WWII brought down the popularity of social jazz dance. • Jazz dance technique was becoming more professionalized with influences such as ballet and modern. • New music styles were introduced such as rockabilly, R&B, and classic rock n’ roll. • Young kids began reviving and/or introducing new dances. • Media outlets such as American Bandstand promoted these latest styles.

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