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- The arrival in London of seminal American musicians, especially Louis Armstrong (1932) and Duke Ellington (1933), inspired the British jazz community, generating excited publicity, popular and professional interest – and occasional controversy.
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In the 1960s and 1970s, British jazz began to have more varied influences, from Africa and the Caribbean. The influx of musicians from the Caribbean brought to the UK shores excellent musicians, including the Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott.
Mar 17, 2021 · The arrival in London of seminal American musicians, especially Louis Armstrong (1932) and Duke Ellington (1933), inspired the British jazz community, generating excited publicity, popular and professional interest – and occasional controversy.
- Pre-1900 - In the beginning. The music to become known as ‘jazz’ is generally thought to have been conceived in America during the second half of the nineteenth century by African-Americans.
- 1900s - The ragtime era. Ragtime, a new style of syncopated popular music, was published as sheet music from the late 1890s for dance and theatre orchestras in the USA.
- 1910s - A music called jazz. During this period, jazz (or ‘jass’ as it was originally called) became identified as a distinctive musical genre developed primarily by black musicians.
- 1920s - Jazz takes root in Britain. By the mid-1920s jazz was a thriving preoccupation in British culture, and publication of the magazine Melody Maker from 1926 and the BBC’s first broadcasts (principally of dance music) helped to build popularity.
Aug 18, 2021 · Despite (or perhaps because of) their wide array of influences, the young musicians involved in the British jazz explosion of the late 60s were able to forge individual musical approaches.
- Charles Waring
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Jun 12, 2021 · British society has changed and so has British jazz. Skin colour aside, jazz is still male-orientated. That the distaff balance is being addressed as much by white musicians as black and Asian is part of the complexity of jazz’s evolution here.
In 1919 the arrival in Britain of two groups from America, Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) and the Southern Syncopated Orchestra (SSO), brought jazz to public attention. Responding to the centenary of these visits, Catherine Tackley’s research explores the influence of jazz on culture and society in the interwar years in Britain ...
Dec 17, 2020 · Broadly speaking, Parker sets out to evaluate the influence of left-wing politics on the development of British modern/contemporary jazz (which he terms “progressive” or “BPJ”) from 1956 to 1964.
