At this time both jazz music and dance emerged. This movement coincided with both the equally phenomenal introduction of mainstream radio and the conclusion of World War …show more content…
These great performers improvised much of their music and even some of the lyrics. Louis Armstrong was also the first to use "scat" singing, a mix of non-sense sounds in place of lyrics. Jazz was loud, syncopated and emotional. King Oliver and his Creole Band were also an early influence to the style. He played for gangsters like Al Capone and "Lucky" Luciano on the south side of Chicago and blended many styles like "ragtime" marches and even some pop songs of the time. Ba-dum-tsssss. Jazz has been called America's classical music, and for good reason. Along with the blues, its forefather, it is one of the first truly indigenous musics to develop in America, yet its unpredictable, risky ventures into improvisation gave it critical cache with scholars that the blues lacked. Skiddly-doop-dee-dee At the outset, jazz was dance music, performed by swinging big bands. Soon, the dance elements faded into the background and improvisation became the key element of the music. As the genre evolved, the music split into a number of different styles, from the speedy, hard-hitting rhythms of be-bop and the laid-back, mellow harmonies of cool jazz to the jittery, atonal forays of free jazz and the earthy grooves of soul jazz. Jazzy Changes! Jazz music had a profound effect on fashion in the 1920s with many people changing their way of dress to look like jazz artists of the day. The