Collin HIlton

3/30/15

Dr. Joanna Smolko

Jazz Video Log

Jazz was born in New Orleans in the earless 1800's. Jazz was played in many theaters in New Orleans at its start. The first jazz hit was written down and performed by a white man named Daddy Rice, he had stolen the song from an african american man named Jim Crowe. African American slaves were a huge part of early jazz music and its upbringing. Around the same as jazz New Orleans began to hear the blues. Many slaves played the blues to find mean in there life. The blues was built on just 3 bars. Many song talk about pain, struggle, and climbing to adversity. Though the blues was about troubles and hard labor, the blues was made to make the person feel better not worse. Much of the early blues was about freedom. Soon the blues would change the guitar would be played forever. Blues players were adding vibrato and the end of the notes and shaking notes for a more bluesy effect. in 1890 the lousiana legislature would make black and white must occupy different cars with trains traveling throughout the state. 2 years later a man named Homer Plessie tested the law by sitting in the white mans car and was was arrested and convicted. Because african americans were treated as second class citizens much of the music played in new orleans were black performs playing jazz and the blues to express there frustration and pain they were going through at the time. Eventually a brand new music came to pass. influenced by spirituals, blues, ragtime and it was played by african american's and white's. It comes from all different kinds of cultures. This music would become known as Jazz. The man who started a movement in Jazz "the big noise" was Buddy Bolden was who and astonishing trumpet player who was also an african american. He was born