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Inspired by Louis Armstrong. Was the first white influential jazz player.
Who is Leon "Bix" Biederbecke?
A place where Jazz was played most.
What are Speakeasies?
The product of southern poor black musicians that fused with jazz
What was the blues
Jazz was widespread, being played in dance halls everywhere
What happened to jazz in the mid 1920s
"Your gonna be alone a lot of times hear on this earth. And what tells it all, it's the music."
Who is Sydney Bechet?
The empress of the Blues. Requested to play a song about a flood that hit the southern side of Ohio.
Who is Bessie Smith?
The most popular Ball room in New York City in the 1920s. Where Louie Armstrong played a lot.
What is Rose Land?
Jazz says something deeply about the struggles people went through in the South
What did jazz say about people
The year "Sigin' the Blues" was released by Biederbeche and Traumbuaer. (Might have spelled the names wrong) Stock Markets was at a record high.
When was 1927?
“Maybe these Nordics have tuned into our wavelength, maybe they are at last learning to speak our language”
Who is Rudolph Fisher
The New Orleans clarinet master.
Who is Sydney Bechet?
The city that Armstrong returned to when he quit Henderson’s band
What is Chicago
Making up words as a jazz song goes on. Term came from a song by Louis Armstrong called "Heebie Jeebies".
What is Scating?
The year Armstrongs recording of Heebie Jeebies was released
What happened in 1926
"It was a whole race going hedonistic, deciding on pleasure. The Jazz age now raced along under it's own power, served by great filling stations full of money."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Opened the door for African Americans to a world of entertainment that had previously been almost exclusively white
Who is Ethel Waters?
This place is said to be where Jazz was brought up in the music world.
What is New York and Chicago?
A dance that appeared in the French play "La Revue Negrue".
What is L'Charlston?
The year Bessie Smith recorded Downhearted Blues and became the Empress of the Blues
What happened in 1923
“I want Louis Armstrong on every instrument. The rhythm was great, the syncopation”
Who was Duke Ellington?
The first true great jazz composer who improved sounds of New Orleans jazz
Who is Jelly Morton?
This is the location where Doc Cheatham and Jelly Roll Morton first meet.
What is New York?
The manipulation of a peice of wood and throat muscles
What is ambature?
The year Bix Beiderbecke was born and made contributions to jazz as a white musician
What happened in 1903
“Young musician from Pittsburg who was an innovatoir and played instruments uniquely
Who is Earl Hines?