MU100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Earl Hines, Erroll Garner, Ragtime
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Early jazz: its origins are attributed to new orleans, the term jazz or "jass" derives from creole word that means both african dance and copulation. Developed from west: 1910"s - 1920"s. New orleans jazz: bands that played in the storyville section of. New orleans: jazz musicisanswere hired to play in bars and nightclubs, during the urban reform in 1917. Many musicians left and traveled to northern cities. Rhythm section: string bass or tuba, drums, banjo or guitar piano. Melody instruments "front line": clarinet, trombone, trumpet (cornet) . Virtuoso trumpet, cornet, and vocal composer and performer. Shifted the focus from group improvisation to solo performance . Shift in instrumentation - bass replaced the tuba, addition of the saxophone, guitar replaces the banjo. Due to the economy crash in the us (depression), clubs couldn"t hire larger jazz groups solo pianists filled the publics need for jazz in these settings (came from ragtime)
