1920' jazz

Title: 1920' jazz
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1920' jazz
The 1920's was a huge decade for the phenomena known as "Jazz". Due to the closing of the seaport in New Orleans, musicians were forced to travel up the Mississippi to find work. Two of the cities most affected by this move were Chicago and New York. Chicago was home primarily for New Orleans traditional music during the 1920's. From this New Orleans style came four major types of jazz: Boogie-Woogie, Chicago Jazz, Urban Blues, …showed first 75 words of 1252 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1252 total…but, he was representative of many of the well-trained bandleaders. In conclusion, Chicago and New York were the two most important cities for jazz during the 1920's. The music was a sophisticated kind of New Orleans jazz. Sometime it had a blues feeling and sometimes it didn't. The 1920's are when jazz seriously made a name for itself. Society knew good music when it heard it- and, with out a doubt, the 1920's proved that.

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