1. The Big Band Swing Era & World War II

2. It don’t mean a thing…  If it ain’t got that swing  Dates Late 1930’s to 1950’s  North America spreading to Europe  -jazz becomes more accepted because the rebellious teenagers of the 20’s have now become the adults of the 40s.  -jazz music is now the most popular music and is widely performed and heard all throughout North America and the world.

3. Technological Advances Help  -microphone technology allowed more vocals to be put to the music Now that the singer could be heard above the band, lyrics and the human voice find a larger place in jazz. “Stars” are created.

4. Ella Fitzgerald

5. Billie Holiday

6. Frank Sinatra

7. The Radio  -the invention of the radio has helped music spread further and further and become more accessible

8. Artistic Influence -over two decades of jazz orchestras, the instrumentation of ensembles became more standard: 5 saxes, 4 tbs, 4or5 tpts, drums, bass, piano, guitar

9. Driven by the Dancing -the importance of dancing drove the structure of the music, dictating the arrangements, solos, and forms of tunes.

10. Count Basie  Kansas City Wrote the track we started the class with One O’Clock Jump

11. Duke Ellington  Based out of New York  Top five most influential people in Jazz history

12. Started out at The Cotton Club  In the 1920’s, when the cotton club only permitted white patrons

13.  Take The “A” Train  His biggest hit.  The “A” Train is a subway in New York that leaves downtown and brings you to Harlem, New York’s largest black community

14. Just when everyone was having fun

15. World War II 1939-1945  Adolf Hitler convinces the German people they are a superior race. He also convinces them the world would be better if it were run by Germans.

16. How did he do it? Propaganda Censorship to weed out non German influences

17. Musically this meant Only German music on the airwaves, or played in public, or sold in stores

18. Frighteningly, it worked.  Hitler conquered North Africa and most of Europe before attempting to invade England  The public not only supported these invasions, they also supported the Nazi’s efforts to eliminate all Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, gays, disabled peoples and political opponents culminating with the murder of 6 million Jewish people

19. England asks for help  Winston Churchill, England’s PM begs for help.  Canada joins war in 1939, the Americans in 1942

20. Thousands go overseas Almost all healthy men 18 to 40

21. Women too…  As secretaries and nurses

22. Most based in England  What might you bring if you know you won’t be home for a while?  MUSIC!!!  These bases were massive and had their own radio stations

23. Swing catches on in England  And also in…  Germany!?!

24. German kids are Swingin’! What does Hitler Think?

25. Records are banned and burned The Nazi youth spy on others, bust up swing parties by force He Hates it!

26. Bennie Goodman  The biggest star in swing  Outstanding clarinet player  World famous  From New York City  Jewish

27. Not just a musician  -Bennie Goodman, not only was he Jewish, but he created the first multi-racial ensemble.(Jewish Clarinet player, black piano player Teddy Wilson, white drummer Gene Krupa)

28. Bennie Goodman,Jewish Star, playing black music, that German kids loved. Imagine what Hitler thought of that.

29. 1945 VICTORY  Swing would remain the most popular music in the western world for ten more years