The 1920s was referred to as “the Jazz Age” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and rightly so. At that time, Jazz was on the rise and was a making a push to mainstream music. The genre’s influence that we know of today was aided by dance styles emerging at the time. Jazz was also aided by “Two appliances- the phonograph and radio.” Those two made the music more accessible, which meant more listeners and more influential is different regions. Many Jazz artists contributed greatly to the genre. “Duke Ellington wrote the first extended jazz compositions. Louis Armstrong popularized ‘scat’.” Other artists like Jimmy McPartland and Benny Goodman popularized the Chicago school of
