The History Of Jazz

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New Orleans musicians discovered that audiences were eager for their music
in the cities of the North and the Midwest. In the 1920s Chicago became the
second major jazz center. White Chicago youths, such as tenor saxophonist Bud
Freeman and clarinetist Benny Goodman, were excited by the New Orleans masters
including the thrilling Louis Armstrong, who played in King Oliver's band.

The third major jazz center was New York City, and it became the most important.
In New York, pianists such as James P. Johnson created the piano style by
transforming rags and Southern black folk dances into jazz. Jazz was first
played in the ballrooms and theaters of New York.

Louis Armstrong was among the jazz musicians who accompanied Ma Rainey and the
rich-voiced Bessie Smith, the classic blues singers of the 1920s. When
Armstrong began singing, too, he scattered songs by improvising his own phrases
and nonsense syllables. Billie Holiday was only a teenager when she began her
singing career. She ...

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