How Jazz Migrated from New Orleans to New York and Chicago in the 1920s

This overview of jazz in the 1920s explains the rise in prominence of New York and Chicago in the musical landscape. The student explains that musicians in these cities used the New Orleans style to develop boogie-woogie, Chicago jazz, urban blues, and society dance bands. The student also introduces the reader to various major figures of the era, including Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Oliver and Louis Armstrong, and Benny Goodman.
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