By: Karissa Fults & Lyndee Dexter
Blues + ragtime + brass band = Dixieland First recording in 1917 by band “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” (the name Dixieland stuck) Otherwise known as “Traditional Jazz” or “New Orleans Jazz”
Common instruments: Frontline: Cornet/trumpet, clarinet, trombone Rhythm section: banjo, piano, drums, string bass, tuba Common Rhythm: Upbeat tempo, 4/4 meter, triplet swing style Tuba/string bass 1 st and 3 rd beats + banjo/piano 2 nd and 4 th beats= “two-beat” style.
Before, bands played music exactly how orchestrated In south, bands started playing “ensemble style” (no solos) with frontline improvising the melody and “jazzing it up”= Dixieland
“ The Jazz Age”= 1920’s Moved to St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago, but changed in two ways: Added solos –influenced by Bix Beiderbecke More forcefully presented (not as gentle)
Louis Armstrong, Joe King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Edward “Kid” Ory, Johnny Dodds, Paul Mares, Nick LaRocca, Bix Beiderbecke, and Jimmy McPartland
Bob Crosby's Bobcats, Lu Watters Yerba Buena Jazz Band, The Lawson-Haggart World's Greatest Jazz Band (Bob, Bob, Bob, & Yank), The Dukes of Dixieland, Turk Murphy, and James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band.