Louis Armstrong - Savoy Blues (1927) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJdXWY7JRo
Weary Blues-Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dMWMe0zbx8&feature=fvst
Singin The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong (1924) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGZ934--AQ&feature=fvw
1920s and 1930s - The Jazz Age
Prohibition in the United States (from 1920 to 1933) banned the sale of alcoholic drinks, resulting in illicit 'speakeasies' becoming lively venues of the "Jazz Age", an era when popular music included current dance songs, novelty songs, and show tunes. Jazz started to get a reputation as being immoral and many members of the older generations saw it as threatening the old values in culture and promoting the new decadent values of the Roaring 20s. Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton University wrote “...it is not music at all. It’s merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion.”
Even the media began to denigrate jazz. The New York Times took stories and altered headlines to pick at Jazz. For instance, villagers used pots and pans in Siberia to scare off bears, and the newspaper stated that it was Jazz that scared the bears away. Another story claims that Jazz caused the death of a celebrated conductor. The actual cause of death was a fatal heart attack (from shock, perhaps?). From 1919, Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans played in San Francisco and Los Angeles where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings. However, the main centre developing the new "Hot Jazz" was Chicago, where King Oliver joined Bill Johnson. That year also saw the first recording by Bessie Smith, the most famous of the 1920s blues singers.
Weary Blues-Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dMWMe0zbx8&feature=fvst
Singin The Blues - Bix Beiderbecke - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong (1924) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGZ934--AQ&feature=fvw
1920s and 1930s - The Jazz Age
Prohibition in the United States (from 1920 to 1933) banned the sale of alcoholic drinks, resulting in illicit 'speakeasies' becoming lively venues of the "Jazz Age", an era when popular music included current dance songs, novelty songs, and show tunes. Jazz started to get a reputation as being immoral and many members of the older generations saw it as threatening the old values in culture and promoting the new decadent values of the Roaring 20s. Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton University wrote “...it is not music at all. It’s merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion.”
Even the media began to denigrate jazz. The New York Times took stories and altered headlines to pick at Jazz. For instance, villagers used pots and pans in Siberia to scare off bears, and the newspaper stated that it was Jazz that scared the bears away. Another story claims that Jazz caused the death of a celebrated conductor. The actual cause of death was a fatal heart attack (from shock, perhaps?). From 1919, Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans played in San Francisco and Los Angeles where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings. However, the main centre developing the new "Hot Jazz" was Chicago, where King Oliver joined Bill Johnson. That year also saw the first recording by Bessie Smith, the most famous of the 1920s blues singers.
Jazz timeline
1900s – Jazz originated in New Orleans and then began to spread throughout the country into the teens. As more employment opportunities opened up in the North, especially in Chicago and the Midwest, both black and white musicians from New Orleans moved to Chicago
1922 – Gennett records began recording jazz in Chicago. Rhythm kings was the first group to be recorded in New Orleans
1923 – The next groups that were recorded were; ‘King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band’ with Armstrong on second cornet, and a series of piano recordings by Jelly Roll Morton
1924 – Gennett records recorded ‘Wolverines’
Paramount records, another recording company, developed in this period of time was competing with Gennett records
1925 – This mid-decade was referred to as the “dance age” as America went crazy for dances, such as the ‘Charleston’ and the ‘Black Bottom’. In New York, a popular dance orchestra that was considered more rag-time influenced style.
1930s – The blues, which had influenced jazz from the beginning, became increasingly popular due to singers like Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith