popularity over other cities. (Wintz‚ Humanities Texas). White Americans became enamored by the culture which developed in Harlem and packed bars such as The Cotton Club‚ a club which featured African American entertainers such as Jazz composer Duke Ellington (Hutchinson‚ Encyclopedia
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The Lindy Hop is a jazz dance or “Swing” dance that originated in Harlem‚ New York at a popular club named the Savoy ballroom. How the Lindy hop received its name is debatable. Many believe the name came from a headline in the newspaper about Charles Lindbergh’s famous flight to Paris in 1927 and others believe it was named after a woman named Lindy. Regardless of how the Lindy Hop received its name‚ the new fast paced dance quickly became an American phenomenon. By the mid 1920’s the Lindy Hop became
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at this time. The 1900’s also brought in Muckraking‚ the Dust Bowl‚ the Great Depression‚ and the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The mid 1900s gave way to crime and gangs a problem that we still have today. Satchmo and Louis Armstrong along with Duke Ellington‚ And Frank Sinatra are all products of the 1900’s. All of our favorite music and dances can be attributed to the early Jazz and Blues and Swing of the 1900’s. In the following paragraphs we are going to briefly touch on a few of the major events
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Jazz: The History The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime‚ marching band music and Blues. What made Jazz such a different perspective of traditional music was its act of improvising. There was a widespread use of improvisation often by more than one player at a time. Songwriters would write the music down on a piece of paper‚ and then the Jazz musicians would try their best to play the music. Usually in a Jazz piece‚ musicians would
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Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt is known as one of the most talented jazz guitar soloist and as France’s most famous jazz performer. Django Reinhardt was born Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt on January 23‚ 1910 in Liverchies‚ Belgium. His parents were Jean-Eugene who was a musician and entertainer‚ and La Belle Laurence (also known as Negros because of her dark beauty) who was a dancer. He was born in the back of the caravan‚ which the Manouche gypsy family lived. His parents named him “Django” in
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influenced music in many ways. Generally it has been observed that music changes a lot as the decades go by and different types are created while other ones go out of style. All about Jazz “Jazz is a good barometer of freedom…” that’s what Duke Ellington said in a filmed interview for a documentary‚ but jazz is much more. It is the story of two world wars and a devastating depression‚ the sound track that helped Americans get through the worst of times. Jazz is about sex‚ the way men and women
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Johnson‚ Dizzy Gillespie‚ Thelonious Monk‚ Ma Rainey‚ Billy Strayhorn‚ Bessie Smith‚ Nat King Cole and his Trio‚ Duke Ellington‚ Ella Fitzgerald‚ Adelaide Hall‚ and Ivie Anderson‚ had strong influences towards this African American movement. W.E.B. Dubois was a major influence for many of the artists‚ voicing his opinion of encouragement to artists who had fled the South
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Jazz flourished widely in the 1920’s‚ which was considered the Jazz age. In the 1920’s Jazz was a lifestyle to most people. Some fell in love with Jazz‚ while others hated it. People who liked Jazz were the passionate and urban people. Many white young boys and girls fell in love with jazz. Jazz was a way for them to be freed from the rural America. Jazz had originally come from New Orleans but job opportunities had opened up elsewhere causing many musicians to move out of New Orleans. This is what
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of all time. His name was Duke Ellington. He was a very clean musician‚ well spoken‚ and very well educated. He was already big into the Jazz industry by the early age of 17. By the time he was in his early 40s‚ he was at the peak of his creativity in composing‚ and the peak of his career. During this time he became the first African American to set foot in Carnegie Hall. It took a lot of bargaining‚ but he arranged a deal to play a concert there. Undoubtedly‚ Ellington made ample amounts of money
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compare Shine a Light to such early landmarks as Get Year Yo-Yo’s out! As this is a different band than the roving band of marauders from 1969. This is a band that has‚ in Keith Richards’ estimation‚ turned into a rock & roll equivalent of the Duke Ellington or Count Basie orchestras‚ players that keep on playing because that’s what they do. Shine a Light bears this out‚ as the group has an easy interplay that avoids being lazy‚ even on the worn-out warhorses that close the album. The real reason
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