1920s music

Authentic Roaring 20s Jazz Age 1920s piano music that actually plays full-length songs when touch...

We see a band with some well-known instruments like drums and trombone. They make music that is called Jazz. It became very popular around the 1920s. The men wear neat suits. In the 1920s there were a lot of clubs, lounges and theaters in Chicago which played Jazz music, it was the new trend. It is believed that Jazz made its way through Chicago from New Orleans in 1915. Jazz is a mix of African and European musical traditions that started in the United States by african migrants form the…

This is a playlist of popular 1920s songs. Many of these songs/ artists are still known today.

Flappers who were women in the 1920s that engaged in the city nightlife. They broke all kinds of beauty standards. They showed their ankles and knees. They cut their hair in short man-like bobs and wore makeup. Women like flappers gained a boost of confidence, so they could now enjoy the activities they wanted to participate in. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, french fashion designer, popularized the new look not only in France but America as well.

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"The Harlem Stride piano style of James Price Johnson (1894-1955) transformed Ragtime into Jazz. He laid the cornerstone of jazz piano before 1920, influencing Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Art Tatum and Thelonious Monk. An absolute master of the keyboard with perfect pitch, James P. is recognized as the foremost proponent of Harlem Stride piano. His protege Fats Waller recalled learning more in his first afternoon with Johnson than the previous 10 years"

New Orleans musicians

Louis Daniel Armstrong[1] (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)[2] nicknamed Satchmo[3] or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana. This bio is sponsored by Two Guys F…

During its brief and rocky tenure from 1918 to 1924, pianist Gertrude Harvey Wright was one of four women in Seattle’s first black musicians’ union, the American Federation of Musicians’ Local 458. Wright, Virginia Hughes, a “Mrs. Austin,” and (Edythe) “Turnham,” all worked with their male counterparts at union headquarters and on the bandstand. After the demise of short-lived Local 458, they next joined and helped run Seattle’s follow-up segregated union, Local 493. This institution…

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