JAZZ MUSIC

Jazz Music

Jazz Music

To identify the Jazz Age, it is imperative to understand the history of the music that provided its name to the Roaring Twenties. That music came from ragtime and blues that were part of the African American music in the South. Bands in New Orleans played the new styles of jazz that became popular on the radio. They improvised music that really expressed the spirit and strong feelings of the times when Americans wanted to forget about the suffering of World War I and have fun.

There were many great musicians who became famous during the Jazz ...