Ange Rapa

Class 3

The Jazz Age Begins

Eddie Lang (1902-1933)

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Video Reference

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Beginnings

The Ragtime Era

The Jazz Age Begins

The Jazz Age

Prelude to Swing

The Swing Era Begins

The Swing Era

The Decline

https://www.marist.edu/professional-programs/center-lifetime-study/handouts

1850 1900 1950

Swing

Era

Jazz

Age

Jazz

Ragtime

The Big Band Era

Pop Music Development Society Music

1910 1920 1930 1940

Today…

Stephen Foster Sheet Music – Minstrel

Pop Music Development

Scott JoplinRagtime

Review…

• Based on African-American traditions• Improvised from many musical styles• Black & Creole collaboration in

Storyville, New Orleans.

Jazz Development (1890-1910)

• Buddy Bolden – Led first popular Jazz band in New Orleans

• Famous for the playing style that would lay the foundation for early jazz bands

New Orleans

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Jelly Roll Mortoncomposition

Early Jazz Pioneers

Sidney Bechetstyle

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Irene and Vernon CastleBallroom Dancing

Society Music – early 1900s

James Reese EuropeConcert-Society-Ragtime-

Jazz

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Jazz Recorded - 1917

Nick LaRoccaThe Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Today…

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)

Duke Ellington (1899-1974)

Louis ArmstrongJoe “King” Oliver

Chicago - 1922

Eddie Condon (1905-1973)