Improvisation

1) Melody(blend)

2) Harmony

3) Rhythm

1)Worksongs

2)Blues

3)Ragtime

4)Spirituals

5)Street Cries

What plays part in leading a way for jazz and this type of music was used for Church purposes?

• W/o slavery their would be no jazz
• Slaves came from the West Coast of Africa
• Came from region Dahomey(Voo Doo worshipers)
• Worshiped Snake god and sacrificed animals
• French wanted Dahomians and were shipped to Haiti and Louisiana
• Portogues were the first slave traders
• 1st state slaves brought to was Virginia
  

• Was owned by the French
• N.O. was a major sea port- alot migration from Eur. into southern Louisiana

End of the 1700s N.O. was tripling in size and had massive ___________

what place was important for the development of Jazz?

what was the year of the Louisiana Purchase?

• guaranteed blacks a descent funeral
• Would hire black bands to play mournful music on the way to burial and uplifting music after

• was the official Red Light District
• Prostitution is legal
• City Counselman, Sydney Story, wanted to dedicate a section for prostitution "Storyville"
• 1910 there were 200 bordellos houses of prostitution

1. Congo Square
2. Secret Societies
3. Storyville
4. Marching Bands

• Played significant part for Jazz
• were lighted complected people and were either Fr. and Afr. or Span. and Afr. ancestory
• Offspring would be sent to France, earna a degree, and go play in Louisiana
  

1. Buddy Bolden
2. Freddie Keppard
3. Joe Oliver

(They all played the Cornet)

Tpt=2/3 cylindrical, 1/3 Conical

Cornet=1/3 cylindrical, 2/3 Conical

Tpt=2/3 cylindrical, 1/3 Conical

Cornet=1/3 cylindrical, 2/3 Conical

• 1912 formed his own band "Original Creol Band"
• was given first opportunity to make jazz record bur declined it
• Turned it down b/c he didnt want people stealing his style
  

• 1st Jazz record was recorded in 1917
• Instruments- tpt, clar, tromb, drums, and piano
• Was an all white jazz band
• "King Oliver's Creol Jazz Band" motivated them
• In 1918- 1st jazz band to tour Europe
  

• Played piano, was an composer and arranger- takes styles of music and adapts it into his band
• To play with him you had to read and write music
• Band Name: "Red Hot Peppers"
• Was a gangsta
• Song: "Grandpa's Spell's"
  

• 1901-1971
• First great jazz soloist
• AKA: "Satchmo"
• 1922- 2nd cornet for King Oliver's Creol Jazz Band
• Joined Oliver in Chicago after Storyville shut down
• Made records with band- "Hot 5" and "Hot 7"
  

• Uses creole in his band title even though himself is not
• Song: "Dipper Mouth Blues"
• Band played completley by ear
  

Who are the band members in King Oliver's band?

1. Joe Oliver - 1st Cornet
2. Louis Armstrong- 2nd Cornet
3. Kid Ory- Tromb.(creole)
4. Johnny Dodds- Clar.
5. Babby Dodds- drums
6. Lil Harden- Piano(creole)
   

What instruments did Sydney Bechet play?

What tragedy happened in Bunk Johnsons life?

Who made a deal with the devil at the Crossroads?

When was he murdered and how old was he?

Robert Johnson, 1938- 26 yrs old

(Used to cut off the top of whiskey to use as a slider on his guitar)

What was Bessie Smith's famous song?

And who assisted her in playing?

"St. Louis Blues"

Louis Armstrong and played trumpet and reed organ

Who taught Bessie Smith how to sing the blues?

What was she refered as?

Ma Rainy

"Mother of the Blues"

Who was Muddy Waters?

Where is he from?

1. Where is B.B. King from?
2. Where did he end up working?
3. What was AKA?
4. What is his famous tune?

1. Mississippi
2. Memphis
3. Beale Street Blues Boy
4. "Paying the Cost to Be the Boss"

Left: syncopated rhythm on snar

Right: hitting the "ride" cymbol

• Plays 4 notes in a bar,
• "Walking Bass Line"

Left hand: Harmony

Right hand: Melody

1. Country Blues
2. Classic Blues
3. Urban Blues

Born in Texas (born blind)

Taught Lead Belly

"Father of the Blues"

*1912-"Memphis Blues"

*1914- "St. Louis Blues"

• Takes styles of music and adapts it into his band
• Jelly Roll Morton

• "Original Dixieland Jazz Band"
• 1918