The first jazz musicians played in New Orleans during the early 1900’s.After 1917, many of the New Orleans musicians moved to the south side of Chicago,where they continued to play their style of jazz.Soon Chicago was the new center for jazz.(1)_______________________. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong,born in New Orleans in 1900, was one.Another leading musician was Joseph “King” Oliver,who was also credited with having discovered Armstrong when they were both in New Orleans,to join his band.In 1923, King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band made the first important set of recordings by a Black band in the history of jazz.The Red Hot Peppers Band led by Jelly Roll Morton and the Hot Five and the Hot Seven bands under Louis Armstrong also made recordings of special note.(2)_______________________.In 1923 Fletcher Henderson already had a ten piece band that played jazz.During the early 1930’s the number of players grew to sixteen.Henderson’s band was considered a leader in what some people have called the Big Band Era.(3)_______________________.One of the most popular jazz bands was the Duke Ellington Band.Edward Duke Ellington was born in Washington, D. C.,in 1899 and died in New York City in 1974.He studied the piano as a young boy and later began writing original musical compositions.The first of Ellington’s European tours came in 1933.He soon received international fame for his talent as a band leader,composer, and arranger. Ten years later,Ellington began giving annual concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City.People began to listen to jazz in the same way that they had always listened to classical music.
