Jazz in the 1920’s
Every since World War I ended, jazz has become more and more popular. The last couple of years are sometimes referred as a “Jazz Age”. Today, we have an extraordinary specialist on jazz with us. Who can explain jazz better than Louis Armstrong? The one whose band is helping to popularize jazz and is being really influential for other jazz musicians?
Ina: Welcome to Peoples Magazine Mr. Armstrong. It’s great to have you here.
Armstrong: It’s a pleasure to be here.
Ina: So to begin with, why don’t you tell us something more about yourself?
Armstrong: I am an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer. I have been working on music for a long time but I have been really sucsessful for the last couple of years starting in …show more content…
Besides that the photograph becomes more common so it is easier to disseminate music, surpassing sales of sheet music and piano rolls. A big factor of course is prohibition. Prohibition and the “speakeasys” create many opportunities for musicians in dance halls and ballrooms. Americans are going crazy for dances like the Charleston and the Black Bottom. The music we play and they love to dance to, is played by a band consisting seven to twelve musicians. It’s always great to see your audience having so much fun while you are performing. But in all I would say that the change of the jazz industry is indirectly fueled by prohibition of alcohol.
Ina: That’s very interesting. So, you were born in New Orleans, in one of American’s jazz capitals, but you are currently working in Chicago. Why?
Armstrong: Many New Orleans jazzmen were moving to Chicago in the last 10 years in search of employment. The jazz scene in Chicago is developing rapidly, because so many prominent musicians work there now and that makes even more want to come. Besides that, New York, which is already the center of the music industry, becomes a bigger magnet drawing musicians from other parts of the nation. At the same time Kansas City, with it’s many nightclubs and dance halls creates a heaven for jazz musicians in the South and
Every since World War I ended, jazz has become more and more popular. The last couple of years are sometimes referred as a “Jazz Age”. Today, we have an extraordinary specialist on jazz with us. Who can explain jazz better than Louis Armstrong? The one whose band is helping to popularize jazz and is being really influential for other jazz musicians?
Ina: Welcome to Peoples Magazine Mr. Armstrong. It’s great to have you here.
Armstrong: It’s a pleasure to be here.
Ina: So to begin with, why don’t you tell us something more about yourself?
Armstrong: I am an American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer. I have been working on music for a long time but I have been really sucsessful for the last couple of years starting in …show more content…
Besides that the photograph becomes more common so it is easier to disseminate music, surpassing sales of sheet music and piano rolls. A big factor of course is prohibition. Prohibition and the “speakeasys” create many opportunities for musicians in dance halls and ballrooms. Americans are going crazy for dances like the Charleston and the Black Bottom. The music we play and they love to dance to, is played by a band consisting seven to twelve musicians. It’s always great to see your audience having so much fun while you are performing. But in all I would say that the change of the jazz industry is indirectly fueled by prohibition of alcohol.
Ina: That’s very interesting. So, you were born in New Orleans, in one of American’s jazz capitals, but you are currently working in Chicago. Why?
Armstrong: Many New Orleans jazzmen were moving to Chicago in the last 10 years in search of employment. The jazz scene in Chicago is developing rapidly, because so many prominent musicians work there now and that makes even more want to come. Besides that, New York, which is already the center of the music industry, becomes a bigger magnet drawing musicians from other parts of the nation. At the same time Kansas City, with it’s many nightclubs and dance halls creates a heaven for jazz musicians in the South and