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Music migration

To America

1920s Charleston

To Live In The 1920's

Scott Joplin - Little Black Baby

B.B. King - Blues Boys Tune

"Call and Response" and the History of Jazz

Preacher Black Harry

“lining out” , “call & response” & “riffs” “ Blues and Ragtime

1770 ~

New Orleans upper class “creoles”, Civil Was, Storyville

New Orleans became part of USA when Louisiana purchase of 1803…

The Original Dixieland White Guys…

1900 ~ 20

Louis Armstrong

Chicago …The Art of Improvisation

The first commercial radio broadcasts took place in 1920 with in a couple years,

There were over 500 stations.

1920s

Duke Ellington

New York … Harlem Renaissance… Swing Swing Swing …

Cotton Club

1920~30s

Charley Parker

Charlie Parker - Summertime

Kansas City’s … Be Bop…Art Music…

40s

Minton’s Playhouse… Fusion

The Birth and Death of Cool … West Coast Jazz…Hard Bop

Miles Davis

50s

Modal Jazz… Free Jazz

Jazz is

60s

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue (Full Album) (Full HD 1080p)

Fusion ( and confusion )

70s

-- Encyclo-whitebread-pedia Britannica

… Playing what you feel

… a musical form often improvisational, developed by Afro-Americans

and influenced by both European harmonic structure and African rhythmic complexity

-- from the ever cheerful Miles Davis

… a nigger word that white folks dropped on us

-- from “JAZZ The Essential CD Guide” by Martin Gayford

… syncopated music that emerged in America from a tangled mass

of roots in African music plus European classical, tin-pan alley and folk

… a passionate fusion of African, European and American music

Jazzical Terms ...

1920s Chicago

The Art of Improvisation

Lining out : Psalms with a rhythmic beat plus exciting sliding pitch common to frican language…

In British church it was to repeat the precher’s words every couple lines

Call & Response : you say it, I repeat it …African musicians uses for 100 years

Riffs : Short melody or rhythmic phrase that’s repeated between sections in big

band Jazz or the soloists in small group jazz

Blues : The song from central to jazz in the 19th century from a mix of African

field hollers and Christian hymns…

Ragtime : Syncopated European style of piano music that tooks its formal

structure from the march but was played with African rhythmic undertones.

In 1918, Joe “King” Oliver left New Orleans and settled in Chicago, where he formed his famous Creole Band, which became a regular fixture at Lincoln Gardens on Chicago’s South Side.

In 1922, Oliver sent for Louis Armstrong, the gifted young trumpeter he had taught in New Orleans ragtime bands. Armstrong had come a long way in the four years since his mentor had left South.

“Louis Armstrong now had a melodic imagination extending beyond that of his teenage heroes, and one which could not be precisely tracked to Any single influence more explicable than his own genius.”

… from JAZZ by John Fordham

The Jazz Age

The War to End

The Promise of New Life

The Gangsters

The Prohibition Law "speakesis"

1920 - 30s New York

New York’s Harlem Renaissance began

In the 1920s. Black poetry, art, music,

literature, and philosophy flowered.

Harlem nights attracted a huge white

Audience, who travelled through Harlem

like it was East Berlin.

Duke Ellington’s band, first at the

Kentucky Club, then the Cotton Club,

Thrived on a frequently caricatured image

of African life.

Driving Around New York City - 1928

Swing Time - Rogers and Astaire

Swing...

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Cotton club

Whiteman, George Gershwin

George Gershwin: An American in Paris

Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin - New York City

Harlem Renaissance

Duke At The Cotton Club

America's only original art form...

In Jazz's 100 years it's covered pretty much the same ground that is took european classical music 1000 years to do

Jazz

The American Scene

"if you gotta ask, you'll never know." - Louis Armstrong

How did Jazz begin?

It started with ...

African captives dumped into the cotton and tobacco plantqations of the Caribean and the Americas and they determined to keep their own culture alive ...

Civil War

Music and the Patriotic Spirit

There is no exact answer

Louis Armstrong "Dinah" 1933

Live music in New Orleans Street

LOUIS ARMSTROMG - WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

"... with the moans and groans of the people in the cotton fields ...

... before it got the name of soul, men were sellin' watermelons and vegetable on a wagon drawn by a mule,

hollerin' watermelonlllon!' with a cry in their voices ...

... and the men on the railroad track layin' crossties - everytime they hit the hammer

it was with a sad feelin, but with a beat ...

... and the Baptist preature - he the one who had the soul - he give out the meter, a long and short meter,

and old mothers of the church would reply

The History of Slavery

Drumline - Last Battle

This musical thing has been here since America been here.

This is trial and tribulation music.

John Philip Sousa

Stephen Foster

... Mahalia Jackson, Time magazine, June 28, 1968

THE BLACK HOLOCAUST PT.1

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor (II)

New Musical Elements

Webern - Sehr ruhig und zart - op10

. New Rhythmic Complexity : polyrhythm

2. New Melody : instrumental melody

3. New Harmony : polytonality, twelve-tone method

4. Texture : dissonant counterpoint1

5. New form : popular styles ( Blues and early jazz )

2nd World War

Arnold Schonberg(1874-1951)

& Alban berg and Anton Webern

Second Viennese School

Foundation