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  2. 1920s in jazz - Wikipedia

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    Ray Miller Orchestra King & Carter Jazzing Orchestra, Houston, Texas, 1921. The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to cultural values. [1]

  3. List of jazz musicians - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. ... (born 1950) Tommy Gumina (1931 ...

  4. 1920 in jazz - Wikipedia

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    “One can plausibly argue that the debate over jazz was just one of many that characterized American social discourse in the 1920s” (Ogren 3). In 1919, jazz was being described to white people as “a music originating about the turn of the twentieth century in New Orleans that featured wind instruments exploiting new timbres and performance techniques and improvisation” (Murchison 97).

  5. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz.

  6. List of big bands - Wikipedia

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    While the Big Band Era suggests that big bands flourished for a short period, they have been a part of jazz music since their emergence in the 1920s when white concert bands adopted the rhythms and musical forms of small African-American jazz combos.

  7. Category:Jazz musicians from Texas - Wikipedia

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    Jazz musicians from Texas — originally from or residing in the state during their jazz music careers. Subcategories. This category has only the following ...

  8. 1950s in jazz - Wikipedia

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    See also the list of cool jazz and West Coast musicians for further detail. Hard bop, an extension of bebop (or "bop") music that incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing, developed in the mid-1950s, partly in response to the vogue for cool jazz in the early 1950s. The ...

  9. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Relatively little has been written about sacred and liturgical jazz. In a 2013 doctoral dissertation, Angelo Versace examined the development of sacred jazz in the 1950s using disciplines of musicology and history. He noted that the traditions of black gospel music and jazz were combined in the 1950s to produce a new genre, "sacred jazz". [187]