THE JAZZ AGE!

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THE JAZZ AGE!

• Louis Armstrong is shown here playing with white
  musicians. The politics of the time had a lot do
  with whites and blacks playing in bands together.

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The trumpet was his thing!
And boy, could he swing!!
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The white musicians thought the blacks just
played by ear and couldnt read sheet music, but
although the blacks did improvise when playing,
they did learn the sheet music. In fact, they
learned it so well, they played without it a lot,
which also made people think they couldnt read
music.
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Dizzy Gillespie had style!
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He called her "beyond category." She
called him "the encyclopedia of music, soul,
sensitivity, jazz, art, and love."
Together, they were bride and groom in one of the
most successful marriages ever between a composer
and a vocalist. As critic Leonard Feather once
noted, pairing jazz royalty like Ella Fitzgerald
and Duke Ellington was "as logical as serving
caviar with champagne."
Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillespie
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VAUDEVILLE LIFE!
Another time, when we were playing in Laport
Illinois, or is Laport in Indiana -anyway it
wasn't far out of Chicago-it was another of those
college towns, another girl and I were leaving
the theatre when up steps a fresh college Guy and
started in to bother us. Finally, when we didn't
pay much attention to him, he grabs hold of the
girl with me and started to drag her along. That
proved just too bad for him for she was a dancer
on the stage and a high kicker. The first thing
that fellow knew he got a good swift kick right
on the chin. He then beat it out of there in a
hurry. As it happened we came through that town
about ten days later and learned that the poor
guy was in the hospital with the end of his
tongue bitten off. The Dancer Kicks a Fresh man
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A boy who plays in de school orchestra wanta to
lead always. He is too fond of Swing. He maka
monkey business. Unfortunately he could not even
reada de music with skill. (Quote from Vito
Cacciola)
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As a social historian Fitzgerald became
identified with "The Jazz Age" "It was an age of
miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of
excess, and it was an age of satire." The
Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924
seeking tranquility for his work. He wrote The
Great Gatsby during the summer and fall in
Valescure near St. Raphael, but the marriage was
damaged by Zelda's involvement with a French
naval aviator. The extent of the affair--if it
was in fact consummated--is not known. On the
Riviera the Fitzgeralds formed a close friendship
with Gerald and Sara Murphy. The
Fitzgeralds spent the winter of 1924-1925 in
Rome, where he revised The Great Gatsby they
were en route to Paris when the novel was
published in April. The Great Gatsby marked a
striking advance in Fitzgerald's technique,
utilizing a complex structure and a controlled
narrative point of view. Fitzgerald's achievement
received critical praise, but sales of Gatsby
were disappointing, though the stage and movie
rights brought additional income.
F. Scott Fitzgerald