Red Hot Jazz

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RED HOT JAZZ

 

The music called Jazz was
born sometime around 1895
in New Orleans. It combined
elements of Ragtime,
marching band music and Blues.

What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often by more than one player at a time. Jazz represented a break from Western musical traditions, where the composer wrote a piece of music on paper and the musicians then tried their best to play exactly what was in the score. In a Jazz piece, the song is often just a starting point or frame of reference for the musicians to improvise around.

The song might have been a popular ditty or blues that they didn't compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the original song. Many of these virtuoso musicians were not good sight readers and some could not read music at all, nevertheless their playing thrilled audiences and the spontaneous music they created captured a joy and sense of adventure that was an exciting and radical departure from the music of that time.
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Buddy Bolden's Band, New Orleans, c. 1895-1900.

From left to right: Jimmie Johnson, Buddy Bolden,
Brock Mumford, Willie Cornish, Frank Lewis, Willie Warner.


The first Jazz was played by African-American and Creole musicians in New Orleans. The cornet player, Buddy Bolden is generally considered to be the first real Jazz musician. Other early players included Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson and Clarence Williams. Although these musicians names are unknown to most people, then and now, their ideas are still being elaborated on to this day. Most of these men could not make a living with their music and were forced to work menial jobs to get by.
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The second wave of
New Orleans Jazz
musicians like
Joe "King" Oliver,
Kid Ory and
Jelly Roll Morton
formed small bands
that took the music
of these older men
and increased the
complexity and
dynamic of their
music, as well
as gaining greater
commercial success.

This music became
known as "Hot Jazz",
because of the often
breakneck speeds and
amazing improvised
polyphony that these
bands produced.

A young virtuoso cornet player named Louis Armstrong was discovered in New Orleans by King Oliver. Armstrong soon grew to become the greatest Jazz musician of his era and eventually one of the biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other Jazz musicians altered the course of both popular and Classical music.

African-American musical styles
became the dominant force in
20th century music.

~Scott Alexander

The Red Hot Jazz Archive


The Red Hot Jazz group

 

This Group is for My Cousin Andrew...

...who taught me everything I
know about the early jazz greats.

Love you kid,

oxo
~annie

 

QUOTE

As a lover of "Hot Music"
as well as a player, I have
been asked hundreds of times
if I thought "Hot Music"
would die out.

I said no indeed.


~Louis Armstrong

MUSIC

 

No matter how much a person
may like classical music, they
may like just as much "Hot Music".
There's so many different ways
to play "Hot Music".


~Louis Armstrong

 

The Hot Years 1925-1930

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The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

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The Hot Fives & Sevens

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Zonky

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The Bands 

The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings

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Hot Dance Bands from OKeh 1923-1931

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Volume 1: Harry Reser's Six Jumping Jacks

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Four-Four Rhythm: Victor Territory Bands 1928-1931: Volume 1

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Banjo Crackerjax, 1922-1930

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HOT JAZZ POLL 

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Louis Armstrong "West End Blues" pt 1

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Buddy Bolden

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Jazz 1

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Jazz 3

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Jazz 2

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Jazz 5

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Jazz 6

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Jazz 7

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FILM

 

At the Jazz Band Ball - Early Hot Jazz, Song and Dance

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Jazz - A Film By Ken Burns

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Jazz - A Film by Ken Burns

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BOOKS

 

Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924

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Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945

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JAZZ CRUMBS 

Early Jazz Greats

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GUESTBOOK 

phatmarketing

liked the lens very much, you've really done some research and it shows - well done.

I've been working on a site all about Instrumental Jazz Music, would love it if you came along and made a comment on any of the reviews!

all the best,

Tony

Posted October 01, 2008

LINKS 

The Red Hot Jazz Archive
A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 2000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discographies of Jazz musicians.
RedHotJazz: From Ragtime to Swing
An on-line discussion group about Red Hot Jazz from Ragtime to Swing!

 

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