New Orleans Flashcards
another name for New Orleans jazz
dixieland jazz
congo square
place that slaves were allowed to get together to sing and dance on sunday afternoons
storyville
redlight district (believed to be birthplace of jazz)
creoles of color
offrspring of mixed French, Spanish, and African descent (usually white father and african mother)
Louisiana Legislative Code of 1894
took rights away from creoles of color
uptown-downtown theory
creole of color musicians were forced to perform with black musicians. thats how jazz was born
Buddy Bolden
cornet, trumpet
black
formed band
know for his big sound
(King) Joe Oliver
cornet, trumpet
black
NO->Chicago->NY
Joe Oliver’s band
“King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
Louis Armstrong
cornet, trumpet
black
NO->Chicago->NY
what band was Louis Armstrong in in Chicago
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
who is Louis Armstrong’s second wife
Lil Hardin
Louis Armstrong left for NY to join who
The Fletcher Henderson Band
what was Louis Armstrong’s band
Louis Armstrong Hot Five
Jelly Roll Morton
piano
creole of color
from NO
Habenera rhythm (spanish tinge)
Jelly Roll Morton
“The Crave”
Jelly Roll Morton
NO/dixieland
Emma Barrett
piano
who was the pianist for Oscar Celestine’s band
Emma Barrett
Band leader at Preservation Hall (and the Hall’s location)
Emma Barrett
NO
Sydney Bechet
clarinet, soprano sax creole of color child protege early virtuoso soloist known for his quick and wide vibrato
vibrato
the variation in sound through the playing of one note
“Egyptian Fantasy”
Sydney Bechet
NO/dixieland
Freddie Keppard
cornet, trumpet
creole of color
who turned down the first jazz recording? and why?
Freddie Keppard
He was afraid of being copied
“Salty Dog”
Freddie Keppard
NO/dixieland
instruments of NO/dixieland jazz
cornet/trumpet, clarinet, trombone, banjo(guitar), tuba(bass), brums, piano, (very old dixieland included violin)
NO/dixieland characteristics
polyphonic texture;
group improvisation
multi-sectional forms
ODJB (Original Dixieland Jazz Band)
white band
“Dixieland Jass Band One Step”
ODJB
NO/dixieland
who made first jazz recording
ODJB
