The Birth of Jazz
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Born in the heart of New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz made its way onto the scene. With African-Americans at the helm, the red-light district housed this new genre of music and talented artists during what is now known as a monumental moment in American history.
Blending various styles, musicians like Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith found their star rising. But as the genre grew, many obstacles came along with it. Controversy around the genre led to the military shutting down the creative hub for good in 1917.
In this episode of Black History in Two Minutes or So hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., with additional commentary from Farah Griffin of Columbia University, we unpack a genre created by African-Americans that, despite the controversy, still found a way to thrive on the international scene.
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Hello Dolly performed by Louis Armstrong
The New York Times
Tiger Rag performed by Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Executive Producers:
Robert F. Smith
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Dyllan McGee
Deon Taylor
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In 500 years people will be looking back at Armstrong in the same way we look back at artists like Mozart.
I've been learning about the New Orleans Jazz Fest and that video helps me a lot! Good job, keep it up !
It would be great to have credits describing all the music heard in this video. And also good to have the names of the musicians shown on the screen.
Here bc my teacher is having us create a presentation of Jazz or Ragtime, picked jazz, here i am, almost have been watching this over and over for 30 minutes
Very nice! I'm here on behalf of me being a Charlie Parker, Miles Davis & John Coltrane fan. 🎼🎵🎶🎹🎷🎺🥁🖤
I'm Hispanic and I really love the sound of jazz its tight
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Here because I love jazz...
Buddy Bolden was a key figure of developing an early style of jazz in the form of ragtime
Actually, Bolden and his big four beat kept jazz district from ragtime - but jazz is the ultimate musical magpie so there was certainly a lot of nicking and cross-pollination.
@@shanewright2772 I wish somebody could find a recording of Bolden -- there is none known. His documented style would be a real find.
Here because my teacher asked us to create a jazz compilation CD cover
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Absolutely fascinating.
Well done❤
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. ✊
Black music decades era to era genre to genre the best planet loved.
Louis Armstrong? What happened to King Oliver, Buddy Bolden, and Jelly Roll Morton?
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Jazz is my favorite music genre I'm trying to learn more about it
I'm here because of Keyon Harrold's amazing collab with Samm Henshaw
Such a treat!!!!
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She wrote first rock song 1948
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Why they always sweeping European influences under the carpet blows me away.
Jazz has nothing to do with euroupe its uniquely African American.
@@flora-3603 I wouldn’t say nothing to due with Europe but it was definitely created by black Americans.
It’s African American culture..
@@Jedi_Black U rite
Everything about Jazz came from Europe, including the instruments, Jazz did not come from Africa. The United States has nothing to do with the history of music, everyone in America and all American media is for stupid people.
Mamie Smith was the black woman to record a blue 🎵 🎶 🎵
Miss the inclusion of Bill “Count” Basie, one of the giants of big band jazz and his “main man” singer, the late, great Joe Williams!
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band played "watered-down jazz"? In 1916-17 their instrumentation was pretty much the same as jazz bands used for the next 14 years (minus the banjo/guitar). We can hear what they sounded like on records, and if anything, their playing was manic and overexcited, not watered down. On the other hand, Buddy Bolden, who never recorded, left a photo of his band from the 1890s. The instrumentation was cornet, valve trombone, two clarinets, a guitar, and a string bass. regardless of how Bolden played, these instruments are not known for raucous music. Also, at that time, ragtime music was more heard than ad lib jazz, so it's likely Bolden "jazzed up" rags and marches more than played classic-style jazz. And who knows how his sidemen played. (two clarinets can be rather strident in inexperienced hands).
cool jazz
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LET THE MUSIC PLAY¡¡
anti-rock is the 80s version of anti-jazz , these group of people never seem to stop hating
Africa = salsa = moderm music
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It’s NOT AFRICAN! It’s Black American and we are Indigenous American Tribes, NOT AFRICAN!
Keep it up!!
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The first sophisticated instrumental music in American history? I don't think so! Have you never heard of Ragtime. Joplin's music seems very sophisticated to me.
But what makes Jazz Jazz though? What instruments are used, how it's played, what's the sound of Jazz?
Quite the amount of focus on race in this video, very little of the actual music lol
@@meisrerboot the video is about the birth of jazz, of course it's going to focus on race...
Jazzy.
There were no Latin or European styles incorporated in jazz lol 😂😂😂 there is no evidence. It was created out of blue, folk and gospel. The first Latin jazz album did not come out until the 1940s when Dizzie Gillespie invited chano pozo and debuted the first Latin jazz song Elquente September 27th, 1948 Carnegie Hall NYC. The white band that made the first recording were taught that by African American musicians as the black musicians did not want to have their music stolen so they trusted them to record and give them credit/payments. When it began to get big, they lied about creating it and we're found out that they didn't. That's why what they were performing was "watered down" because they were not the originals creators.
A lot of the Jazz sound comes from the Romantic and impressionist styles of music which are European. And nearly all the instruments are European too.
@@elias7748 that's a damn lie. First off, Europe was modernized by African moors. Secondly, The instrument the comes from west Africa. It came to the west via slave ships with the earliest recollection of it being used in country music being 1690s by slaves who were tasked with building and playing the instruments at festive occasions. The guitar is the Tanbar and lute from Africa. In addition, the people were damn sure not listening to European music in the deep south back in those days. They weren't even allowed to live near whites. Lol 😂😆. That music was created from scratch by black Americans descendants of slaves. Probably the sax. The drum alone was invented in West Africa. C'mon man
@@elias7748 you've been taught white washed history
@@elias7748 even though rice originates from asia, you wouldn't call paella an asian dish... They used western instruments because African Americans came to america at that time through slavery, they weren't afforded the luxury of their own cultural instrument. using what is provided to create something new does not mean that jazz is European... it wouldn't make a difference if those same instruments had been made in Asia, they still made their own unique genre.
Your definition is a description of the blues rather than wholly Jazz although it does contain elements of the blues particularly early improvisation. However, you negate to mention Ragtime and its element of syncopated rhythm which is an all important part of jazz music.
There is evidence of Latin American influence in the birth of Jazz and it comes from one of the main pioneers mentioned in this video Creole musician Jelly Roll Morton. He called it Spanish tinge but he clearly meant South American based music that was heard in New Orleans during the 19th century and most likely influenced ragtime players at the time.
Also, your historic assertion that the Original Dixieland Jazz Band was taught jazz by black musicians is untrue. If you listen to the music played by Black and white musicians at the beginning of the Jazz recording era you can hear a big difference in the music. Also, at the birth of Jazz New Orleans was a segregated city with both Creole and white musicians having little contact with blacks whom they considered inferior. In fact Morton claimed he had invented Jazz and Nick LaRocca claimed that it had originated from whites. 🧐 Today we say it originated from many sources with no one individual totally responsible for its birth.
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Latin music was NOTHING to do with the birth of jazz, nor did the documentary even evidence that. Latin music developed independently and fused with jazz later. It made no reference to the influence of the French population there and Quadrilles influencing the musical style and the importance of music for dance, or the polyphonic nature of African melodies and rhythms either.
Jazz, an early WC Handy style blues contained what Jell Roll Morton called the "Spanish tinge". One of the key elements that proliferated jazz was the influx of plundered brass instruments from Cuba after the Spanish American War and Bolden's peculiar big four beat was high influenced by the latin Habanera (?sp) dance.
New Orleans was ruled by the Spanish for a period while Congo square was still a thing and since Congo square influenced jazz and Congo square was influenced by its environment, latin music indirectly also inspired jazz
@@Thays. Spain is in Europe anyway, so why did they say Latin AND European? That was dumb
@@Thays. lies
Black Cubans copied Black American Jazz but ended up making Salsa
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This is a bullshit video. Let New Orleanians tell their stories.
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African music doesn't have any of the song structure, chords, melody and harmony interplav, rhythm, sophisticated instruments and musical arrangements as American jazz, especially in the beginning (1906 - 1930). Audio recordings are a great way to compare this - so far I've not found any wax cylinders or 78s from Africa that have what American jazz performances have (as described above).
Latin is European…
Black Americans are the Indigenous American Indian Tribes. They are NOT from Africa. Yes, very few Africans (less than 150,000 while millions were already here in North America), came to USA but NOT many because we were already here! My family are from the Pamunkey and Powhatan Indian tribes of Virginia and were are Copper Colored, no African DNA. So Louis Armstrong and many Black American Southerners are Indigenous Americans, NOT African.
I’d enjoy listening to jazz if it didn’t sound so bad.
lots of jazz sounds great
sad to have bad ears. Its okay buddy, sad but uh yeah no just sad.
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Boy this is a terrible racially biased non accurate video. First off...."America" is a continent and NOT a country. Why is it so hard to get a musically accurate description of what Jazz is.
Latin Americans love saying this, THE AMERICAS is a continent but only ONE country refers to itself as America. Please don't act dense. Plus jazz is African American music
@@jaboy0978 Excuse me ...I am from the USA. The dense thing...Who are you referring too?
@@jaboy0978 Jazz is Black American not African. There is a difference.
@@philmaturanodrums probably because jazz was created during a period where there WAS a lot if racism segregation and anti black propaganda.... The accurate representation of jazz is that white americans did not like anything that black Americans created yet they would try to emulate all of the dancing, music singing etc that comes from AA and make it palatable for the white audiences.
@@philmaturanodrumsdude what? America IS a country (United States of AMERICA). North America is a continent. Are you okay?
Jazz isn't "black" music, it's American. It has deep European roots, latin roots & African roots. Most of the innovators were black or mixed preformers, heavily influenced by European marching band, classical & opera, with African, Carribean & native American influences as well, but from it's beginning it was simply American music, first & foremost. The same thing is true of Country & Western, Rock & Roll & Pop standards or any other kind of American music. Any American music is a stew of the ancestral cultures of America. Today America is insanely divided, we don't need people saying "the piano is European so you shouldn't use it because you're Asian" or anything like that. Music brings people together, as Americans we should celebrate that, without a prefix.
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Lol Jazz is definitely African American music, is pizza not an Italian American food.
African music has always been vilified and then coopted by white people, history is then white washed.
@@flora-3603 Prove it.
@@augustinemanga8971 Really so those are all African instruments & melodies? How's that for a lolz? Where exactly in Africa do you find Africans playing anything like Jazz before they heard American Jazz. I've studied African traditional music & there was nothing like it. The closet thing would be Arabian influenced music in West Africa, which definitely is part of Jazz, as is the shuffle which does have African roots. The rest is, mostly, Opera, Marching Band tradition from those "white devils" in Europe, Folk & Classical. Art Tatum knew it so did Bix so did Miles. Do some research before you spout off again.
Really excited to here you tell me exactly what is false or admit you just hate the truth.
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Its a shame they don't say the truth it's whole creation was by imitating mexican music.
How? They didn't live around Mexicans or was influenced by Mexicans till this day is not a lot of Mexicans in New Orleans but they are Italians and other spanish-speaking countries from Europe I would like your intake on how do
Y’all come up with anything.
Cuban music was an influence, not Mexican.
@@shanewright2772 and even then afro Cuban music
@@jaboy0978 Jelly Roll Morton said that one of the thing that differentiated jazz in the early days was what was called the Spanish tinge, or the habanera beat. Buddy Bolden's music used what was called the "big 4" which was closer to a James Brown funk line. But Cuba's biggest influence, ironically, was that when the US looted the country in 1898 they sent back all of the pilfered good through New Orleans, including vast quantities of brass instruments, which found their way to the local marching bands and street orchestras. That changed jazz from a parlor music to a street music and meant musicians could move from venue to venue. I did a video on it - th-cam.com/video/N_KyWMwf4MQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TheFoulQuince