Dixieland

They eventually were fired and replaced by the Louis Armstrong All Stars who performed “Dixieland” jazz music. For the next twenty years, the Louis Armstrong All Stars traveled around the world sharing their love and musical talents. During this time, they started professional recordings of their music which was not as simple back then as it…

The ingenuity of the individuals involved in the Harlem Renaissance continues to have an effect on modern culture. The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of African American culture. Slavery and the Jim Crow Laws had oppressed Africans Americans for hundreds of years. The idea of white supremacy was popular quickly becoming popular in the South. Unfortunately, most African Americans lived in the South and were treated horribly. In 1890, the Great Migration began, in which many African…

Jazz will always be known as the music of the roaring twenties. Along with those years of great economic prosperity, jazz shined through as a gateway to celebration. With parties being thrown and many people learning about jazz, the genre of music was evolved into many forms of jazz. Additionally, jazz really gave a name to those like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Ella Fitzgerald. Among these names came Benny Goodman who was a prime leader in jazz. Benny Goodman performed with many famous…

The history of jazz goes back very far, and still holds roots in almost all of music today. Jazz is one of the widest known forms of music around the world it is all around people whether they realize it or not. Jazz styles are in songs throughout a span of time periods, ranging from around 1895 to present day. When musicians break down a song into its simplest forms, there are certain common jazz styles that are present. Most listeners do not realize that what he or she is hearing is some form…

Between 1916 and 1949 a few other companies offered colored shellac discs, including a blue-shellacked series from Columbia during the 1930s and chocolate colored pressings from a budget label “Perfect Records” prior to the 1930s. In 1949 when RCA Victor launched their 45-RPM format they began color-coding their records based on genre calcification. They classifications are as follows: Black Vinyl – Pop Pressings (Prefix 47) Green Vinyl – Country Music (Prefix 48) Red Vinyl - “Red Seal”…

Vinyl Record Materials Materials to used to make records have evolved and changed several times over the years. The earliest disc records from 1889-1894 were made of various materials including wax and. Rubber. Shortly after, a shellac based compound had been experiment with leading to it becoming standard. Each manufactures exact formula varied, but they typically coated records with a shellac (wax) resin Shellac The materials typically used to make for a shellacked disc where cardboard and…