1. Taylor Richie Andrew Weber Rob Strasenburgh Isabella Joynt
The Jazz Age
Taylor Richie
Andrew Weber
Rob Strasenburgh
Isabella Joynt

2. Jazz is considered America’s classical music

3. Originated from New Orleans, Louisiana
In the 1900’s then began to spread throughout the country

4. Where did Jazz come from?
Jazz is considered to be a more developed form of the Blues.

5. The invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison made the rapid spread of jazz possible
He would sometime play the jazz records backwards because “they sounded better that way.”

6. Popular songs from Tin Palley Composers
“Whispering”
“Wang Wang Blues”
“Wabash Blues”
“Linger Awhile”
“Who”
“My Blue Heaven”
“Sonny Boy”
“The Prisoner’s Song”

7. The first generally recognized jazz recording was made in 1917 by the Original Dixieland Jass Band, a white band from New Orleans who cut their record, "Livery Stable Blues" in New York

8. Louis Armstrong
- 2 main hits were “Hello Dolly”, and “What a Wonderful World”

9. Duke Ellington
-Wrote his first song at age 15
-Won 13 Grammy’s

10. Jelly Roll Morton
-Inducted into hall of fame in 1998

11. Clarence Williams was the first artist to classify his music as Jazz

12. The Media and Jazz
The news papers would try and put jazz down by blaming ridiculous things on Jazz like….
Murder
Stealing

13. Jazz in Theatre
The motion picture The Jazz Singer (1927) brought the music to the big screen in the first-ever “talkie” film

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15. Works Cited

16. Works cited
Jazz music clips
video clips