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Most musical city, New Orleans. Center of slave trade. The slaves created Jazz in a way to let go of their sadness and feel better. "Jazz is about freedom."
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Whites dressed up as blacks. "Why'd the chicken cross the road" came from menstral shows. Menstral shows were the best forms of entertainment.
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Jim Crow laws start and try to put down black people
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The St. Louis BluesSInging about you problems and getting ride of them by singing
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Also known as King Bolden. He had a huge sound and "created" Rag-time. He was a heavy drinker.
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It was said that Sidney was as good as Armstrong
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Kids liked ragtime because their parents resented it. Rebellious. DA
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His father did not want his to play Jazz music at all
From the age of 3 he showed musical talent
His brother showed him the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Louis Armstrong was his inspiration
His parents put him in a strict boarding school in Illinois
Within 1 week, he got his way into a black Jazz band on the south side
He went to the city so much to see his favorite musicians that he got expelled
His father was very angry and sent him to work in his coal mining business
He went to Chicago
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He thought he invented Jazz!
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He get into a fight over a cord change and challneges a guy to a gun fight in down town pairs at 4:30 during rush hour. Misses his target and hits a girl in the back of the leg. Then was thrown out of Europe.
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could barely carry a tune, but he was a very famous, he was born in 1910
He was born in wealth, raised in a mansion in New York
When he was 12 he heard his first live Jazz band
He believed that black musicians were not getting the attention they deserved
He had somewhere where they could play
He loved Jazz music
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Charlie Parker was from Kansas City, Missouri, he was born in 1920
His father was a tap dancer who turned into a coal miner, he was a heavy drinker
His father bought him a saxophone when he was 13
He played songs twice the pace that they are supposed to be played
He dropped out of school because he decided that he did not need it because he was going to be a Jazz musician
He drank and used marijuana, because he could stay up all night and play music, he was 15
He married at 16
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Feb 5th, 1924 Louis Armstrong got married to his second wife in Chicago
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In November 1925, he quit Henderson’s band to play in his own band.
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She sang about her life which was poor and she sang it in the form of the blues
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In July 1927 they were playing in a tent with 12 KKK members and she refused to run and they left
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Stock market crashed. 1 / 4 of the workers were out of work.
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Fats Waller, over 300 lbs and is over 6’ tall
He lives in NYC
He eats and drank a lot of liquor
James P. Johnson was his mentor
He sold over 400 songs to publishers
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in 1931 Buddy Bolden died in the asylum.
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Spirits raised, prohibition appealed (more drinking!)
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He doesn't record for two years.
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He didn't like the fame so he gave up on the orchestra.
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The Savoy it closed because whites and blacks where equals there. They even went home with each other.
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Black people rioting in New York burning down White Businesses and looting them.
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After savoy cloeses people go to 52 St. for Jazz music where Sailors and other service men hang out and have fun.
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Miles Davis was a really big name in Jazz evolution
He was the next stage in 1948-1950 -
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Elvis was rhythm and blues
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Summer 1959 Armstrong has a heart attack
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He shoke hand with Nixion and kiss his checks twice
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Armstrong died of a heart attack in his sleep on July 6, 1971, a month before his 70th birthday, and 11 months after playing a famous show at the Waldorf-Astoria's Empire Room.
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He went to New York City and returns to his club the village vanguard. It helped bring some people back to jazz.
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He dies and his wife closed the village vanguard for one day and they reopened it and has since run it to today.
