PRECURSORS OF JAZZ

Precursors of jazz

Precursors of jazz

The melodies of James Bland, Gussie Davis, Scott Joplin, and W. C. Handy was well renowned in 1918, though numerous were ignorant that very dark men had created this music. The titles of Harry T. Burleigh, Will Marion Cook, and J. Rosamond Johnson were less well renowned to the general public except possibly in New York. Black melodies have long annals of oral custom, improvisation, harmonic kind and musical perfection. This melody loves a certain exclusive attribute in its presentation and acceptability. This unit finds the course of Black melodies from the 1900's to the ...