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WEST END BLUES 1 28 June 1928 LEARNING OBJECTIVES To be able to give a brief account of the development of jazz to the 1920s To study the background.

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3 LEARNING OBJECTIVES To be able to give a brief account of the development of jazz to the 1920s To study the background of West End Blues To learn some specific jazz vocabulary

4 DEFINITIONS PLEASE Head Chorus Polyrhythm Front line Rhythm section Scat Call and response Stride Changes Turnaround Chalumeau range (of clarinet) Comping Satchmo

5 ORIGINS OF JAZZ Work songs and spirituals Syncopation Polyrhythm Pentatonic melody Africa Jigs and reels Waltzes and dances Hymns Marching Bands Europe Blues Ragtime (piano) Dixieland Trad Jazz

6 TRAD JAZZ Blues 12-bar blues, 4/4 Banjo + voice Blue notes b 3 b 5 b 7 Ragtime Piano, 2/4 Stride (Schumann!!) Syncopated melody Scott Joplin Dixieland New Orleans Collective improvisation Front line: cornet, clarinet, trombone Rhythm section: cb or tuba, piano or banjo, percussion Joe “King” Oliver Dippermouth Blues 1923 I I IV IV I IV V I I

7 COMPARISON King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopaters 11 June 1928 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five 28 June 1928 King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopaters 16 January 1929

8 LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS HOT FIVE Studio only group 1925-28 Preferred solo improvisation to collective Lineup: Armstrong (tpt, voice) Jimmy Strong (cl) Fred Robinson (trb) Earl Hines (pf) Mancy Carr (banjo) Zutty Singleton (dr) What’s missing?

9 INTERESTING THINGS Recorded on wax cylinder Low frequencies would not be heard well No bass Bock-a-da-bock TRANSCRIPTION

10 BLOCKBUSTERS F H S C S T C S B R D C

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