PPT-What Is Jazz? “Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.” – Louis

Armstrong Jazz plus Jazz Jazz Parks amp Rec Is This Jazz Some Eras and Genres in Jazz New Orleans late 1890s1920 Chicago 1920s Swing 1930s40 Bebop 1940s. Jazz. Typical Instruments. Vocals. Piano. Banjo. Guitar. Double bass. Trumpet. Trombone. Saxophone. Tuba. Clarinet. Flute. Bass guitar. Drum kit. Vibraphone. Characteristics of Jazz. Because it spans music from over 100 years now, jazz can be very difficult to define. & Musical Theatre. . Dance. Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Co.. Origins of Jazz Dance. The roots of jazz dance are found in Africa.. Found in the rhythms and movements of African dance brought to the US by slaves.. A look at their works. Duke Ellington. Jazz Pianist of the Harlem Renaissance. Legendary Jazz Pianist from Washington D.C. who moved to New York in the . 1920s. http. ://. www.biography.com/people/duke-ellington-9286338/videos/duke-ellington-role-in-harlem-renaissance-15037507978. Schedule 8 Juniors Seniors 5:30 - 6:30 and level p lacement (Teresa) 6:30 - 7:30 Jazz (Alexandra) 6:30 - 7:30 Broadway Jazz (Karen) 7:30 - 8:30 Broadway Jazz (Karen) 7:30 - 8:30 Jazz (Alexandra) Wed, MUH 271 Jazz History. Buddy Bolden. "Sometime around 1897, the Charles "Buddy" Bolden band began filling the dance halls and streets of New Orleans with a new kind of music. Instead of following the notes on sheet music like they were a railroad track, Buddy made his cornet an extension of his emotions. To this rough Negro barber, popular melodies were only points of embarkation for funky, hip-swinging improvisation. Some twenty years later this new music would be called . Blues evolved and no one single person is credited with its invention. . Musicologist credit Charlie (Charley) Patton as the first known blues artist. . The Blues begins to travel. With the success of early blues artist, the blues will begin to spread to other parts of the rural south and across the country developing different regional styles and stars. The Jazz Age. The Jazz Age, the 1920’s. The economy in the USA was strong. Jazz will find new homes. Chicago and New York City . (Time . Sq. & Harlem). Jazz has become America’ s pop music & Soundtrack to the world around them. Critic. 'You automatically stop thinking about anything else and listen': . Phillip Larkin in 1966 .  . Larkin ignored . jazz’s development after the bebop revolution of the late Forties. . Bop is “nervous . Jazz plus Jazz = Jazz (Parks & Rec). Is This Jazz? Duke Ellington . Is This Jazz? (Abercrombie, Erskine, . Mintzer. , . Pattitucci. ). Is This Jazz? (Tim Akers). Some. Eras and Genres in Jazz. New Orleans – (late. Paul Whiteman. Possibly the first pop superstar, called the “King of Jazz” during the 1920s. Symphonic jazz – Whiteman attempted to “make a lady out of jazz”. Wanted to hire “some jazz musicians, preferably black” in 1926. King of Ragtime. Born in Texas – moved to St. Louis. Maple Leaf Rag. The Entertainer. A Guest of Honor: Lost first opera. Opera: . Treemonisha. (not staged until 70’s). Died . of syphilis. Maple Leaf Rag. King of Ragtime. Born in Texas – moved to St. Louis. Maple Leaf Rag. The Entertainer. A Guest of Honor: Lost first opera. Opera: . Treemonisha. (not staged until 70’s). Died . of syphilis. Maple Leaf Rag. Combining by Inserting Words. Louis Armstrong had a deep voice. His voice was . rough.. . Louis Armstrong had deep, rough voice.. He became a jazz musician. He received . acclaim. . for his music. (add-. By: Zhana Holloway. Introduction Paragraph. The beginning of Street and Jazz dance started in 1937. Street dance evolved from informal dancing often done in informal settings in night clubs, school and on the street. Street jazz dance was inspired by traditional dance performed outside of professional studios. Considered by some as a sub-dance style or variation of hip hop,street jazz dance has several forms: hip hop, jazz dance, broadway dance, breakdancing and contemporary dance..