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  2. 1920s in jazz - Wikipedia

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    1920s in jazz. The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to cultural values. [1] Dances such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom were very popular during ...

  3. 1920 in jazz - Wikipedia

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    Allowing jazz to rise up in American culture brought many unique things to music in 1920. New instrumental, orchestral, and rhythmic techniques were introduced, as well as twelve-bar blues, emotional expressiveness, a new scale, and unique forms (Murchison 98). In 1917, many jazz record companies began to conceal their identity because racial ...

  4. List of 1920s jazz standards - Wikipedia

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    Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This list includes compositions written in the 1920s that are considered standards by at least one major book publication or reference work. Some of the tunes listed were already well-known standards ...

  5. Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    Learn about Louis Armstrong, the legendary jazz musician and singer who influenced the development of American music and culture in the 20th century.

  6. List of jazz musicians - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. Do not enter names that lack sources.

  7. Jelly Roll Morton - Wikipedia

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    Jelly Roll Morton. Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe ( né Lemott, [2] later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. [3] Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could ...

  8. List of jazz saxophonists - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1940s, jazz saxophonists such as Charlie Parker(alto, tenor) and Sonny Stitt(alto, tenor) led a rebellion against the strictures of big band jazz, shifting away from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music" that would come to be called bebop, with solos that included more chromaticismand dissonance. Charlie Parker is particularly noted for his ...

  9. Chinatown, My Chinatown - Wikipedia

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    Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, and Lionel Hampton were among the many jazz artists who recorded this song in the 1930s. Its recording history is one of the elements that qualifies it as an early jazz standard .