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    This document provides a brief history of jazz music. It discusses how jazz originated in the United States in the early 1900s and was influenced by blues music. Louis Armstrong was an influential early jazz artist who helped develop improvised jazz solos. In the 1930s, the swing era popularized big bands and upbeat swing dancing. Bebop emerged in the 1940s as a more complex style spearheaded by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who experimented with new rhythms and harmonies. Duke Ellington was also a seminal composer and bandleader during the development of jazz.

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    This document provides a brief history of jazz music. It discusses how jazz originated in the United States in the early 1900s and was influenced by blues music. Louis Armstrong was an influential early jazz artist who helped develop improvised jazz solos. In the 1930s, the swing era popularized big bands and upbeat swing dancing. Bebop emerged in the 1940s as a more complex style spearheaded by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who experimented with new rhythms and harmonies. Duke Ellington was also a seminal composer and bandleader during the development of jazz.

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    This document provides a brief history of jazz music. It discusses how jazz originated in the United States in the early 1900s and was influenced by blues music. Louis Armstrong was an influential early jazz artist who helped develop improvised jazz solos. In the 1930s, the swing era popularized big bands and upbeat swing dancing. Bebop emerged in the 1940s as a more complex style spearheaded by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who experimented with new rhythms and harmonies. Duke Ellington was also a seminal composer and bandleader during the development of jazz.

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    History of Jazz

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    • 1901
    • Did you know that jazz was born in the United States?
    Did you know that the drum set was invented by jazz
    musicians? Did you know that the word "cool" and
    "hip" were originally jazz terms?
    • Blues is the foundation of jazz as well as the prime
    source of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and country
    music. The blues is still evolving and is still widely
    played today.
    • Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential
    artists in the history of music. Born in New Orleans,
    Louisiana, on August 4, 1901, he began playing the
    cornet at the age of 13. Armstrong perfected the
    improvised jazz solo as we know it.
    Louis Armstrong
    Photo: William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund
    Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
    • Improvisation: The Expression of Freedom
    Improvisation is the most defining feature of jazz.
    Improvisation is creating, or making up, music as
    you go along. Jazz musicians play from printed
    music and they improvise solos. From the
    collective improvisation of early jazz to the solo
    improvisation of Louis Armstrong to the free jazz
    of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, and John
    Coltrane, improvisation is central to jazz.
    • Duke Ellington: Master Composer
    One of the most significant figures in music
    history, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was
    born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. He
    began studying the piano at the age of seven. He
    started playing jazz as a teenager, and moved to
    New York City to become a bandleader. "Ellington
    plays the piano, but his real instrument is his band.
    Each member of his band is to him a distinctive
    tone color and set of emotions, which he mixes
    with others equally distinctive to produce a third
    thing, which I like to call the 'Ellington Effect.'" —
    Billy Strayhorn, composer and arranger
    Duke Ellington
    Photo: Library of Congress
    • Mid–1930s
    Swing: Sound in Motion
    Swing is the basic rhythm of jazz. Swinging means
    being in sync with other people and loving it.
    Swing as a jazz style first appeared during the
    Great Depression. The optimistic feeling of swing
    lifted the spirits of everyone in America. By the
    mid-1930s, a period known as the "swing" era,
    swing dancing had become our national dance and
    big bands were playing this style of music.
    • 1940s
    Bebop: The Summit of Sound
    "If you really understand the meaning of bebop,
    you understand the meaning of freedom." —
    Thelonious Monk, pianist and composer

    In the early 1940s, jazz musicians were looking for


    new directions to explore. A new style of jazz was
    born, called bebop, had fast tempos, intricate
    melodies, and complex harmonies.
    • Dizzy Gillespie: A Jazz Visionary
    • Trumpeter, bandleader, and composer John Birks
    "Dizzy" Gillespie was born on October 21, 1917, in
    Cheraw, South Carolina. He got his first music
    lesson from his father and took off from there. He
    moved to New York City in 1937 and met
    musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie
    Parker. Together they experimented with jazz and
    came up with the bebop sound. Dizzy also helped
    to introduce Latin American rhythms to modern
    jazz through his collaborations with artists such as
    Machito and Chano Pozo.
    Dizzy Gillespie
    Photo: William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund
    Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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