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throwback facts:
Jazz developed in the latter part of the 19th cent. from black work songs, field shouts, sorrow songs, hymns, and spirituals whose harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic elements were predominantly African.
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The earliest form of jazz to exert a wide appeal, ragtime was basically a piano style emphasizing syncopation and polyrhythm. Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin were major composers and performers of ragtime.
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Musician Jelly Roll Morton published the first ever jazz arrangement in print in 1915 with the title Jelly Roll Blues. This printed arrangement brought forth a new breed of musicians playing ragtime.
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The first jazz record was recorded in 1913 by Society Orchestra, the first black group to come out with a record.
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George Gershwin composed the symphonic jazz piece Rhapsody In Blue, leading jazz out of the clubs and into concert halls for the first time.
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG brought new relevance to the role of the soloist in jazz with his Hot Fives and Sevens.
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Saxophonist Charlie Parker, while jamming on Cherokee, hit on a new method of soloing by building on the chords' extended intervals, starting the bebop movement.
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