Louis Armstrong: “West End Blues” Bessie Smith: “St. Louis Blues” George Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue” Count Basie: “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” Duke Ellington: “Take the A Train”
1. What instruments do you hear? 2. Describe jazz music to someone who has never heard it. 3. How does innovative or popular music reflect the times in which it is created? 4. What parts of jazz music do you think reflect the 1920s? Think about traditional (classical) music and how it is different from jazz.