The History Of Jazz
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The first jazz was played in the early 20th century. The work chants and folk
music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the
rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music
that first appeared in the 1890s, was composed for the piano, and ea ....
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.... Bechet, pianist Jelly Roll Morton, and cornetist King Oliver. The first
jazz record was made in 1917 by a New Orleans band the Original Dixieland Jazz
Band, made up of white musicians who copied black styles.
The New Orleans musicians discovered that audiences were eager for their music
in the cities of the North and the Midwest. In the 1920s Chicago became the
second major jazz center. White Chicago youths, such as tenor saxophonist Bud
Freeman and clarinetist Benny Goodman, were excited b ....
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