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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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....mes P. Johnson created the piano style by
transforming rags and Southern black folk dances into jazz. Jazz was first
played in the ballrooms and theaters of New York.
Louis Armstrong was among the jazz musicians who accompanied Ma Rainey and the
rich-voiced Bessie Smith, the classic blues singers of the 1920s. When
Armstrong began singing, too, he scattered songs by improvising his own phrases
and nonsense syllables. Billie Holiday was only a teenager when she began her
singing career. She subt.... |
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