US History
Decade of economic hardship and struggle.
The Great Depression
Father of Jazz Improvisation
Louis Armstrong
The Jazz Age began here.
1920s
Known for having swung 8th note rhythms.
Swing
Louis Armstrong & Dizzy Gillespie
Trumpet (and Cornet)
Celebration of African American music, art and culture.
Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith
Rock 'n' Roll took over as the dominant genre.
1950s
Known for melancholy emotion and feeling, flattened notes.
Blues
Duke Ellington & Scott Joplin
Piano
Center of Dixieland Jazz (city or state)
New Orleans
Father of Ragtime, wrote the Entertainer & Maple Leaf Rag
Scott Joplin
The birth of the blues
1910s (1908)
Original style of jazz from the American south.
Dixieland
Bessie Smith & Ella Fitzgerald
Voice
The two headquarters of the blues.
Memphis and Chicago
"First Lady of Song", known for taking scat-singing to a whole new level.
Ella Fitzgerald
Swing & Big Band
1930s
Upbeat syncopated music that came before the blues, popularized by Scott Joplin. Heard on ice cream trucks around the country.
Ragtime
Benny Goodman
Clarinet
Ragtime, Blues, Dixieland, Swing, Bebop.
Famous drummer of the Swing era, invented the jungle drums style.
Gene Krupa
Ragtime
1900s (and late 1890s!)
Super-fast, "advanced" jazz created as a response to big band/swing. Too fast to dance to!
Bebop
Gene Krupa & Buddy Rich
Drums