Jazz Age

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 of jazz in…

Dance has circulated throughout history by articulating different movements and connecting styles together. For example, in the jazz dance module, movements first created during World War One were created and then changed moving forward. The creation of the lindy hop was one of the earliest swing dance forms that was a motion created within jazz and tap influences. This was created by African Americans in social dance settings. Connecting the lindy hop's movements, the movement of the jitterbug…

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue One of the greatest albums in jazz - Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue has received innumerable commendations ever since its release in 1959 and has been admired by jazz fans far and wide. Miles Davis and his sterling band that consisted of top performers at that time together brought this masterpiece to the world. This album features Miles Davis on trumpet, Julian "Cannonball" Adderley on alto saxophone, John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Wynton Kelly and Bill Evans on piano,…

understandably musical and began piano training at age 7. Both of his parents were musical, however his dad, James Edward Ellington, was a butler at the White House. Religion played a big role in his life; his mother was a baptist and his father was a methodist. He got a scholarship from Pratt for art but he turned it down to pursue music. His move to pursue music instead of taking a scholarship is of the many signs of his passion. His first song he wrote at age 15, he called it Soda Fountain…

play when he was very young. As in Source 6 says “at the age of eleven, Armstrong began to develop interest in music,.. Joe “King” Oliver, invite him and moved to Chicago”(Source 6-1) he starts to show interest for music in an early age and when Oliver invited him to go and play with him he accepted and there is where his career started. Armstrong technically changed the way jazz music was played, in Source 6 also say”prior to his arrival, jazz music was played either in highly orchestrated…..…

the newly popular jazz music, which took everyone by storm. Through the popularity and influence of jazz, Americans of all different ethnicities and cultures were brought together. The roots of jazz music are typically accredited to African Americans of the 1700’s, who sang work songs while in slavery. Many of the work songs were in a form called “call-and-response”.…

well-known instruments such as the violin and the cello were developed. The modern versions of the instruments typically used for jazz weren’t contrived until the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Although the history of music is an enduring one, musicians explored areas they had never dared go before in the 1920s. Unlike its more sophisticated predecessors, jazz featured improvisation and a larger focus on soloing. This…

Leonard Feather, the British-born jazz musician. Indeed, though contributing enormous brilliant jazz pieces to the swing era, Billy Strayhorn, compared to his collaborator Duke Ellington, was relatively unknown to public. Instead, living most of his professional life as the protégé of Duke Ellington, Strayhorn passed away in 1967 at too young an age to fully illustrate his own music to the world. Nevertheless, Strayhorn’s songs stood for their quality in the history of jazz, and enabled…

During this time in Harlem jazz was coming up as a big cultural music movement. The importance of jazz is that it wasn’t classical music, and that is the beauty of it. At the time what was known as “classical” music was of European traditions (Thomas 237). According to what Wilder Hobson stated in his article in The Musical Times, “jazz is not a collection of tricks, but a language.” We see this same concept in the narrator’s reaction during Sonny’s performance. Jazz was something created by…

changing the musical genre of jazz forever. With his trumpet in hand, Louis Armstrong took the jazz world, and even the entire world of music by storm with his famous gravelly voice and his focus on solo performances in jazz, a change of pace from the prominent collective improv focused jazz of the time. While making these groundbreaking changes to jazz, Armstrong also charmed the public with his stage presence and charisma. Miles Davis, however made his impact on jazz over the course of many…