Jazz Music in the 1920s

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Jazz Music in the 1920s
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Where Jazz Began

• Jazz originated in New Orleans and was among the
  most popular of music from the beginning of the
  century
• While musical advances were well in progress the
  phonograph was most commonly used to play music
• The 20s were widely known as the the Jazz Age
• The 20s played host to the independence of
  musical record companies
• Jazz music was being produced left, right, and
  center

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• Chicago became the epicentre of jazz
  production, and it found its way into the hearts
  of everyone
• Jazz was entirely influenced by the blues, and
  progressed along with the blues as the most
  popular of music at the time
• Both the blues and jazz were inspired by the
  blacks and began being passed orally by them for
  plenty of unrecorded time
• Although jazz music was dawned by the black
  people, most whites took ownership and
  responsibility for what was the most prominent
  music of the time

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From Jazz Came

• Many of the most famous and remembered dances of
  the 1920s were inspired by jazz music
• Dances include The Charleston and the Black
  Bottom
• These dances were the beginning of major musical
  entertainment that progressed into selections on
  Broadway, and hence the growing fame of jazz
  music, and later films and vidographic
  productions pertaining to the phenomenon of jazz

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• Jazz had infused so many parts of the economy
  and life in the 1920s, as of following the Great
  War and continuing the revolutionary influences
• Now existing, there are many types of jazz, and
  variations of it
• These variations have mixed cultural and urban
  style rhythm with raw instruments to create new
  funk, swing, and many others of which are still
  being altered

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Jazz Composition

• As mentioned earlier, jazz transpired from the
  blues
• Jazz is described by the nature of improvised
  rhythm and an extrovert tendency
• It can also be described as soul music
• Because it was often played at first, in hidden
  clubs and more inconspicuous areas, instruments
  varied and were of what could be obtained
• Later more developed instruments became the make
  up of jazz music
• Instruments consisted of the trumpet,
  saxophones, pianos, tubas, clarinets, violas, and
  such

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Jazz Massive

• Formed from jazz were great musicals that
  revolved around the music and art of jazz
• In the 1920s Broadway flourished due to the
  uprising interest of jazz music
• Pianists also became well appreciated
  particularly during the 1920s
• The biggest jazz musicians of the 20s were most
  often accompanied by a bad or group that helped
  orchestrate
• Jazz music appealed to everyone both upper
  class, and lower

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• It was considered one of the most innovative and
  creative styles of music, which threatened much
  of the others
• In the 20s jazz seemed a very appropriate style
  of music that reflected on the conditions and
  subjects of the time
• It was also thought a relatively seductive style
  of music that young men of the age utilised
  cunningly
• The 1920s were the home of jazz music