This document provides an overview of early jazz history, highlighting key figures and developments in New Orleans and Chicago jazz between 1867-1931. It contrasts the blues and spiritual musical traditions of New Orleans with ragtime, and lists influential early jazz musicians such as Scott Joplin, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jelly Roll Morton. Key recordings are mentioned for each musician to illustrate their contributions in shaping early jazz styles like Dixieland, ragtime, and Chicago jazz.
This document provides an overview of early jazz history, highlighting key figures and developments in New Orleans and Chicago jazz between 1867-1931. It contrasts the blues and spiritual musical traditions of New Orleans with ragtime, and lists influential early jazz musicians such as Scott Joplin, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jelly Roll Morton. Key recordings are mentioned for each musician to illustrate their contributions in shaping early jazz styles like Dixieland, ragtime, and Chicago jazz.
This document provides an overview of early jazz history, highlighting key figures and developments in New Orleans and Chicago jazz between 1867-1931. It contrasts the blues and spiritual musical traditions of New Orleans with ragtime, and lists influential early jazz musicians such as Scott Joplin, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jelly Roll Morton. Key recordings are mentioned for each musician to illustrate their contributions in shaping early jazz styles like Dixieland, ragtime, and Chicago jazz.
This document provides an overview of early jazz history, highlighting key figures and developments in New Orleans and Chicago jazz between 1867-1931. It contrasts the blues and spiritual musical traditions of New Orleans with ragtime, and lists influential early jazz musicians such as Scott Joplin, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jelly Roll Morton. Key recordings are mentioned for each musician to illustrate their contributions in shaping early jazz styles like Dixieland, ragtime, and Chicago jazz.
Difference between New Orleans and rest of American South
Work songs/Blues vs Spirituals/Gospel Ragtime/Stride/Boogie Woogie European roots vs African roots Louis Armstrong vs Bix Beiderbecke New Orleans/Chicago Jazz Scott Joplin 1867-1917 Maple Leaf Rag The Entertainer Original Dixieland Jazz Band Dixie Jass Band One-Step King Oliver trpt 1885-1938 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band Dippermouth Blues Louis Armstrong 'Satchmo' trpt 1901-1971 Louis Armstrong West End Blues (06-28-28) Louis Armstrong Weather Bird (12-05-28) Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven Potato Head Blues Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings] Bix Beiderbecke trpt 1903-1931 River boat Shuffle, Singin the Blues Jelly Roll Morton pno 1890-1941 Jelly Roll Morton Maple Leaf Rag Jelly Roll Morton Wolverine Blues James P Johnson pno 1894-1955 You've Got To BE Modernistic (01-21-30) Earl 'Fatha' Hines pno 1903-1983 My Melancholy Baby with Louis Armstrong Weather Bird (12-05-28) Fats Waller pno 1904-1943 I Ain't got Nobody Ain't Misbehavin' Honeysuckle Rose Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons Johnny Dodds cl 1892-1940 w/ Louis Sidney Bechet cl 1897-1959 Blue Horizon Frankie Trumbauer 1901-1956 sax w/ Bix Kid Ory 1886-1973 trb w/ Louis Jack Teagarden trb 1905-1964 with Red Nichols And His Five Pennies Dinah Baby Dodds 1898-1959 dr w/ Louis