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Mar 22, 2024 · In Jazz; new perspectives on the history of jazz by twelve of the world's foremost jazz critics and scholars. Edited by Nat Hentoff and Albert J. McCarthy; reprint 1974. John Steiner grew up with Chicago jazz; his vast collection is in the Chicago Jazz Archive, Special Collections Research Center.
- Researching Chicago Jazz Venues
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- Chicago, Jazz, and The Great Migration
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Apr 8, 2019 · A little over a century ago, Joseph “King” Oliver, mentor to a wide-eyed teenager named Louis “Dipper” Armstrong, stood peering up the main track of New Orleans’ Union Station on South Rampart Street. The Chicago-bound Illinois Central trains hissed, waiting to move. Oliver, a big, well-fed man, couldn’t wait to move either, so ...
Jan 27, 2022 · Cabarets and dance halls became spaces for both musical and social experimentation, and the new genre of “jazz”—also known as “hot music”—was at the center of it all. In the 1920s, Chicago...
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was jazz first performed in Chicago? When was the word “jazz” first used in the Chicago press? How did race, culture, and music interact in Chicago during the 1920s and the 1960s, two of the most fertile decades in the history of jazz in Chicago? What is meant by “Chicago jazz” as a style and how does it relate to New Orleans jazz?
Mar 18, 2021 · This chapter traces the rise of Louis Armstrong to stardom during the 1920s, and the emergence of jazz as the defining music of the decade—a period now often called the “Jazz Age.”. Armstrong’s historic recordings, the “Hot Fives” and “Hot Sevens,” are assessed, as well as his work with influential pianist Earl Hines.
From 1923 to World War II, as the Great Migration brought Black people from the Deep South to the South Side, Chicago became the jazz capital of the world. The Bronzeville neighborhood—a stretch of seven miles long and two miles wide and south of the Downtown Loop--was packed with jazz clubs, glamorous ballrooms, and exciting nightlife.
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Chicago style, approach to jazz group instrumental playing that developed in Chicago during the 1920s and moved to New York City in the ’30s, being preserved in the music known as Dixieland.
