Documents “The Shift from Ragtime to Jazz” “jazz styles” [whatever that means] developed wherever...

Slide 1 Slide 2 “The Shift from Ragtime to Jazz” “jazz styles” [whatever that means] developed wherever musicians, encouraged by the spontaneous performance practices…

Documents He played for the royalty and for the common people and by the end of his fifty-year career, he had....

Slide 1 Slide 2 He played for the royalty and for the common people and by the end of his fifty-year career, he had played over 20,000 performances worldwide. He was The…

Documents Kathia Ramirez Maurice Tut Irvin. In the 1920’s, there was something call “ The Negro Movement.....

Slide 1 Kathia Ramirez Maurice Tut Irvin Slide 2 In the 1920’s, there was something call “ The Negro Movement ” which was centered in Harlem This movement had an impact…

Documents Jazz Timeline

1619 First Slaves 1817 New Orleans city council establishes "Congo Square" as an official site for slave music and dance. 1865 1892 Pianist Tommy Turpin writes…