This transitioned my perspective on the jazz genre, I’ve come to a more peaceful place in my mind on this style of music now that the confoundment has been elevated thanks to this brief history lesson. Thank you
The reason you gave for why Bebop was created isn't the only reason. At the time the AFM (American Federation of Musicians) was in arguments with the government due to the amount of money musicians made in commercial recordings. This in conjunction with the lack of shellac supply and other tedious or negative aspects of any new styles of music (just jazz really) led to them banning musicians from working anywhere within the commercial industry for around almost 3 years I think. This was a big hit and so clubs, bars, theatres, or other not so fancy performing arts places got more trafficked since more musicians came by. Essentially it became even moreso a musician plays for other musicians kind of gig and the experimentation on the style sped up, thus bebop. Edit: To be more clear, they banned any and all musicians from commercial recordings, but not from participating in live radio programs or musical entertainment, obviously. If you want to research it yourself look up the 1942-1944 musician strike
Enjoyed the video. Just a couple of small trivia notes. At 4:40, you began to talk about W.C. Handy, while showing a photo of Bluesman Robert Johnson. And at the 10:34 mark, when talking about Big Bands you listed, among others, Henry James. His name was Harry James. I like what you're doing, so I'm going to subscribe.
Who you referred to as W.C. Handy holding a guitar in your discussion of blues, is actually Robert Johnson, who influenced many British blues rock guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck et. al.
Aw sweet! His story is so awesome. He was born in an irrelevant town, and his fame and fortune in his rags practically caused a sensation in the US, his songs sound so good. He eventually died penniless from insanity (syphilis). What a man!
Thank you for giving me an insight into what I listened to growing up in Pmburg,Kzn,Rsa, without knowledge of the origins of this lovely music. Once more thank you very much!!!
Very good I would be interested in hearing a playlist of each exclusive form of jazz to learn more. Particularly bebop hard bob modal jazz and free form. I want to educate myself to be able to pick out the genres by ear
Hi, thank you for your kind words Branden. I've linked some of our top sources below. Best of luck with the essay! History Of Jazz Main Sources: www.nps.gov/jazz/learn/historyculture/history_early.htm americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/what-jazz www.learnjazzstandards.com/blog/6-important-jazz-musicians-you-need-to-know/ www.york.cuny.edu/english/writing-program/the-york-scholar-1/volume-6.1-fall-2009/the-social-effects-of-jazz#:~:text=Jazz%20developed%20from%20Afro%2DAmerican,forms%20(Wheaton%2C%201994).
@@getoffmycashews3197 I was mostly talking about how they cultivated jazz as it evolved and influenced aspects of modern day jazz that non-black musicians created
Initially I was excited about this video as an educational film that I could show my high school students. Unfortunately, it is lacking music examples to actually listen to, so I will need to supplement this video with other videos or music tracks, to demonstrate the various styles of jazz. It is so important for students to HEAR the music that you are talking about. Also, I don't think it is helpful to just have a quiet jazz piece playing underneath your speaking/voice track. In fact, it's confusing, because I keep listening to that quiet music to try and identify what it is -- and it's disappointing that it doesn't match the style of jazz that you are speaking about. It would be amazing if you could add actual music samples of exactly what you are describing. Thank you.
What an entitled comment. This man obviously spent a lot of time researching and compiling this content, and for free. If it doesn't suit your needs, fine, but you didn't hire him to do it your way for your specific purpose. You should also consider things like music licensing, etc. Show the video and pull the sound clips yourself.
I liked your history of jazz explained…brief and accurate…could you do s production featuring four lives in the bebop business by A.BB Spellman? Thanks….The Right Reverend Robi J.
jazz was actually invented by papa jack laine in 1888, jack laine had a marching band and it was not called jazz at the time it was called jass, jack laine trained alot of musicians that would later be jazz musicians, nick larocca being one of them and the first jazz record was the dixie land jass band.. same thing with the blues and ragtime, in 1822 beethovens sonata number 32 was 100 years earlier than the blues actually came out, beethoven was doing it years before it was called blues... i have a whole timeline of europeans doing everything before africans if you want to see it
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Nice overview, touching on so many key transitions. I do think it missed what happened with the Miles' "comeback" proteges (John Schofield, Mike Stern, Marcus Miller) and their own blend of rock, funk and jazz (i.e., "heavy metal bebop") and the "world fusion" of Pat Metheny along with other fusions like you hear with Bill Frissell (jazz and Americana). Also, Jimi Hendrex a jazz guy? I would rework that!
O.k for a twenty minute video on the history of jazz. Plenty of white musicians represented which is rare to see nowadays. You missed out cool and west coast styles of the 1950s also the New Orleans revivalists of the 1930s - 40s which kicked off the critics wars. Also I think most of us would put Wayne Shorter's weather report and Chick Corea's Return to forever above Zappa and Hendrix as examples of Jazz fusion. The thing that really bothered me though was that you speak of only black and white in early jazz. When speaking in this period it is better to use terms of the time and identify Creole musicians as well. Overall a very good brief history lesson on Jazz music.
Great summarised historical survey THE quintessential American music genre. However - Scott Joplin and Ragtime?! And WWI Manhattan Negro military band which toured in France
"Blacks [learned] hymns"...No, traditionally blacks have always--even back in the mother-land--used hymns for just about everything. Hymns when working in the field even before they were enslaved. Hymns during ceremonies, hymns at church. Hymns have always been an intrinsic part of their lives.
Your history is off right at the start. Slave traders didn’t capture Africans. They traded with African chiefs to obtain their slaves. If Europeans had to capture Africans in the slave “trade,” they would have been killed by the African warriors or by malaria. Please see Thomas Sowell or any number of accurate history sites on this subject.
The video explains that the origins of Jazz date back before the 1800s in West Africa and the Congo River Basin. The video might have not started from the beginning, perhaps try rewinding it to the very beginning of the video.
The thumbnail only shows African Americans. During the seminal period of jazz (1917-1931) white bands and musicians were equally as influencial and active in the U.S.
@@darz3829 it is not about sales especially in a racist America, and which is still today we are talking about innovators and creators of the different cultural movements of jazz and all of them are African American. stopped pretending that because a majority of white people discover jazz with others that doesn't make them creative or innovative just like Elvis with rock or like Eminem with rap.
@@darz3829 name me a white musician or group who created a jazz movement and tell yourself that there are more than 15 different styles of jazz, go ahead, I'll listen to you, name me one
@@Jonsnow1234harris "name me a white musician or group who created a jazz movement"... You are asking a ridiculous request. Jazz is a conglomerate of many different influences. I'll tell you what -- YOU name me a Black musician or group who created a jazz movement. Even the Black musicians involved were influenced by both Black and white musicians.
Smooth jazz is not part of the jazz evolution and doesn't belong in the history. Neither is Kendrick Lamar's music jazz music or part of its evolution.
Kendrick Lamar really was able to twist jazz into his own creation. The meaning of the jazz in his music is very smart as he uses it in his “conscious hip hop masterpiece, to pimp a butterfly” where he handles problems such as racism, police brutality and struggle. This is what jazz is all about, think about Louis Armstrong: undeniably the best trumpeter, he came from a red light district where he was struggling for money but still managed to make something of himself. Just like Kendrick Lamar, coming from Compton, California, one of the most infamous places for gang violence. The similarities are uncanny, all you have to do is use common sense.
@@datfookie1457 Brilliant comment I completely agree. The commenter above (who I shall not name) clearly has no human decency and is just trying to find a way to hate. Disgraceful.
Nice Job! It’s really cool to learn about the history of a genre that I perform!
Great to hear, thanks Will!!
@@americanhistorygeek1926 You're welcome!
That’s awesome, what instrument do you play?
What is your jazz group called? I’d have to check it out some time!
This transitioned my perspective on the jazz genre, I’ve come to a more peaceful place in my mind on this style of music now that the confoundment has been elevated thanks to this brief history lesson. Thank you
Of course, happy to hear that you enjoyed the video!
The reason you gave for why Bebop was created isn't the only reason. At the time the AFM (American Federation of Musicians) was in arguments with the government due to the amount of money musicians made in commercial recordings. This in conjunction with the lack of shellac supply and other tedious or negative aspects of any new styles of music (just jazz really) led to them banning musicians from working anywhere within the commercial industry for around almost 3 years I think. This was a big hit and so clubs, bars, theatres, or other not so fancy performing arts places got more trafficked since more musicians came by. Essentially it became even moreso a musician plays for other musicians kind of gig and the experimentation on the style sped up, thus bebop.
Edit: To be more clear, they banned any and all musicians from commercial recordings, but not from participating in live radio programs or musical entertainment, obviously. If you want to research it yourself look up the 1942-1944 musician strike
Enjoyed the video. Just a couple of small trivia notes. At 4:40, you began to talk about W.C. Handy, while showing a photo of Bluesman Robert Johnson. And at the 10:34 mark, when talking about Big Bands you listed, among others, Henry James. His name was Harry James. I like what you're doing, so I'm going to subscribe.
People helping you fill it in makes it real for me. Nice piece!!
Great short form doc! I learned a lot and left inspired.
Who you referred to as W.C. Handy holding a guitar in your discussion of blues, is actually Robert Johnson, who influenced many British blues rock guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck et. al.
Wish my uncle, Billy Strayhorn was mentioned. He was a very important contributer to jazz music worldwide.
No mention of my man Scott Joplin, he practically kickstarted all of early jazz!
Good call, he was a huge part of the development of ragtime. I’ll definitely do a video dedicated to Scott or the genre of Ragtime sometime soon!
Aw sweet! His story is so awesome. He was born in an irrelevant town, and his fame and fortune in his rags practically caused a sensation in the US, his songs sound so good. He eventually died penniless from insanity (syphilis). What a man!
Good catch, I nearly forgot about him!
Couldn’t forget! He’s an angel in the dust!
nope papa jack laine did it before them and the dixie land jass band
thanks for this, absolutely perfect for learning about jazz history
Well done, young man!
Thank you for giving me an insight into what I listened to growing up in Pmburg,Kzn,Rsa, without knowledge of the origins of this lovely music. Once more thank you very much!!!
it helped my school presentation thanks
That's awesome to hear, thank you!
Very good I would be interested in hearing a playlist of each exclusive form of jazz to learn more. Particularly bebop hard bob modal jazz and free form. I want to educate myself to be able to pick out the genres by ear
That's a wonderful idea, I'll consider doing that in the near future!!
Really great video, this helped me understand jazz a lot!
Same here very positive and productive vid
I agree. Very helpful!
Thank you, that's awesome to hear!!
@@benphipps6567 Thanks so much Ben, that's really great to hear!!
@@datfookie1457 Thank you!!
Crackin’ vid, very informative!
Thank you!!
What are the sources for all of your information? I love the content, and want to write a piece on Jazz and Black influence on Jazz for school.
Hi, thank you for your kind words Branden. I've linked some of our top sources below. Best of luck with the essay!
History Of Jazz Main Sources:
www.nps.gov/jazz/learn/historyculture/history_early.htm
americanhistory.si.edu/smithsonian-jazz/education/what-jazz
www.learnjazzstandards.com/blog/6-important-jazz-musicians-you-need-to-know/
www.york.cuny.edu/english/writing-program/the-york-scholar-1/volume-6.1-fall-2009/the-social-effects-of-jazz#:~:text=Jazz%20developed%20from%20Afro%2DAmerican,forms%20(Wheaton%2C%201994).
@@americanhistorygeek1926 thank you so much!
You can’t be the influence if they created it
@@getoffmycashews3197 I was mostly talking about how they cultivated jazz as it evolved and influenced aspects of modern day jazz that non-black musicians created
This was such a beautiful and well presented video. Subscribed!
Thanks so much Allan that's great to hear! I just subscribed to your channel as well. Great job with the music, your livestreams sound really good!
@@americanhistorygeek1926 oh wow thanks, really appreciate it! I should do some more livestreams soon. Take care and keep the content coming.
@@allanbahati1942 Of course, looking forward to hearing more of your covers too! :)
I completely agree, great video!
@@mattypeters1786 Thanks so much!
Thanks for this 👍🏼 much appreciated ✌🏼
Very good vid Mate very informative
Thanks so much Ben!!
History of blues next 👍
Thanks for the suggestion! We plan to cover that topic in an upcoming video, stay tuned!!
Initially I was excited about this video as an educational film that I could show my high school students. Unfortunately, it is lacking music examples to actually listen to, so I will need to supplement this video with other videos or music tracks, to demonstrate the various styles of jazz. It is so important for students to HEAR the music that you are talking about. Also, I don't think it is helpful to just have a quiet jazz piece playing underneath your speaking/voice track. In fact, it's confusing, because I keep listening to that quiet music to try and identify what it is -- and it's disappointing that it doesn't match the style of jazz that you are speaking about. It would be amazing if you could add actual music samples of exactly what you are describing. Thank you.
Same here! I specifically wanted a video that has the actual music being referred to. Have you found a good video for that?
What an entitled comment. This man obviously spent a lot of time researching and compiling this content, and for free. If it doesn't suit your needs, fine, but you didn't hire him to do it your way for your specific purpose. You should also consider things like music licensing, etc. Show the video and pull the sound clips yourself.
Nice work¡¡Congrats¡¡
Great, I would like to see hip-hop history now :)
Excellent suggestion, that will be our next video! :)
Awesome suggestion, hip hop actually originated from jazz!
Great idea, I’ll have to stay tuned for this one!
Jimmy Hendrix was a jazz fusion artist…?
TheLEOnius Monk? 13:22
I liked your history of jazz explained…brief and accurate…could you do s production featuring four lives in the bebop business by A.BB Spellman? Thanks….The Right Reverend Robi J.
Hi Rob, thanks for the words of encouragement! I will put in on the list of potential topics to cover, appreciate the suggestion!
jazz was actually invented by papa jack laine in 1888, jack laine had a marching band and it was not called jazz at the time it was called jass, jack laine trained alot of musicians that would later be jazz musicians, nick larocca being one of them and the first jazz record was the dixie land jass band.. same thing with the blues and ragtime, in 1822 beethovens sonata number 32 was 100 years earlier than the blues actually came out, beethoven was doing it years before it was called blues... i have a whole timeline of europeans doing everything before africans if you want to see it
Did you record this on a victrola
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W.C Handy is not that dude at all. That dude was Robert Johnson
no mention of papa jack laine
Scott Joplin and Ragtime?
And Manhattan Negro military band WW1 which toured France?
Nice overview, touching on so many key transitions. I do think it missed what happened with the Miles' "comeback" proteges (John Schofield, Mike Stern, Marcus Miller) and their own blend of rock, funk and jazz (i.e., "heavy metal bebop") and the "world fusion" of Pat Metheny along with other fusions like you hear with Bill Frissell (jazz and Americana). Also, Jimi Hendrex a jazz guy? I would rework that!
Thankyou 😊
nice!
O.k for a twenty minute video on the history of jazz. Plenty of white musicians represented which is rare to see nowadays. You missed out cool and west coast styles of the 1950s also the New Orleans revivalists of the 1930s - 40s which kicked off the critics wars. Also I think most of us would put Wayne Shorter's weather report and Chick Corea's Return to forever above Zappa and Hendrix as examples of Jazz fusion.
The thing that really bothered me though was that you speak of only black and white in early jazz. When speaking in this period it is better to use terms of the time and identify Creole musicians as well. Overall a very good brief history lesson on Jazz music.
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Great summarised historical survey THE quintessential American music genre.
However - Scott Joplin and Ragtime?!
And WWI Manhattan Negro military band which toured in France
"Blacks [learned] hymns"...No, traditionally blacks have always--even back in the mother-land--used hymns for just about everything. Hymns when working in the field even before they were enslaved. Hymns during ceremonies, hymns at church. Hymns have always been an intrinsic part of their lives.
1866 the slave trade was illegal
I thought Buddy Bolden invented jazz 🤔
Your history is off right at the start. Slave traders didn’t capture Africans. They traded with African chiefs to obtain their slaves. If Europeans had to capture Africans in the slave “trade,” they would have been killed by the African warriors or by malaria. Please see Thomas Sowell or any number of accurate history sites on this subject.
Thomas Sowell lol, you trolling right, because Sowell is a history Troll.
Are you serious???
@yaWilly Kwily you guys wanna believe in myth to stay in victimhood. And victimhood keeps you from success. Remove the fetters of your mind.
this whole video is about jazz, and the only thing yore wording about is that, get lost!
@@vitalyjohnson3514 get away from our culture!
this is not a history of Jazz, jazz started way before 1960's.
The video explains that the origins of Jazz date back before the 1800s in West Africa and the Congo River Basin. The video might have not started from the beginning, perhaps try rewinding it to the very beginning of the video.
Did you even watch the video, he explained that it started in the 1800s.
Did you start watching the video at 17:17? I recommend starting videos at the beginning. :-D
this has a lotta information but u tell it in a super boring way icl
The thumbnail only shows African Americans. During the seminal period of jazz (1917-1931) white bands and musicians were equally as influencial and active in the U.S.
Not equally
@@Jonsnow1234harris "Not equally"
You're right -- there were far more white records sold than Black "race" records that were considered "jazz."
@@darz3829 it is not about sales especially in a racist America, and which is still today we are talking about innovators and creators of the different cultural movements of jazz and all of them are African American. stopped pretending that because a majority of white people discover jazz with others that doesn't make them creative or innovative just like Elvis with rock or like Eminem with rap.
@@darz3829 name me a white musician or group who created a jazz movement and tell yourself that there are more than 15 different styles of jazz, go ahead, I'll listen to you, name me one
@@Jonsnow1234harris "name me a white musician or group who created a jazz movement"...
You are asking a ridiculous request. Jazz is a conglomerate of many different influences. I'll tell you what -- YOU name me a Black musician or group who created a jazz movement. Even the Black musicians involved were influenced by both Black and white musicians.
Smooth jazz is not part of the jazz evolution and doesn't belong in the history. Neither is Kendrick Lamar's music jazz music or part of its evolution.
Kendrick Lamar is a big part of modern jazz in the 21st century, please think before you comment.
Kendrick Lamar really was able to twist jazz into his own creation. The meaning of the jazz in his music is very smart as he uses it in his “conscious hip hop masterpiece, to pimp a butterfly” where he handles problems such as racism, police brutality and struggle. This is what jazz is all about, think about Louis Armstrong: undeniably the best trumpeter, he came from a red light district where he was struggling for money but still managed to make something of himself. Just like Kendrick Lamar, coming from Compton, California, one of the most infamous places for gang violence. The similarities are uncanny, all you have to do is use common sense.
@@datfookie1457 Brilliant comment I completely agree. The commenter above (who I shall not name) clearly has no human decency and is just trying to find a way to hate. Disgraceful.
@@mattypeters1786 couldn’t agree more mate 🤝
@@benphipps6567 Thank you Ben, means a lot!