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1 The Advent of Jazz, The dawn of the 20th Century

RECOMMENDED MUSIC

Louis Armstrong—The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Box Set (4-CD set),

Columbia/Legacy 63527, 1925-29.

Sidney Bechet—The Best of Sidney Bechet, Blue Note Records

CDP 7243 828891 2 0, 1939-53.

Bix Beiderbecke—Bix Restored: Volume One, Feb. 1924 - Sept. 1927,

Original Jazz Library BXCD 1-3.

Jelly Roll Morton—Red Hot Peppers, Bluebird/RCA 2361, 1926-30.

King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band—The Complete Set (2-CD set),

Retrieval (Allegro), 79007, 1923.

Original Dixieland Jazz Band—75th Anniversary,

Bluebird/RCA 61098-4, 1917-1921.

FURTHER READING

The Age of Mass Migration, by Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson

(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

Mister Jelly Roll, by Alan Lomax

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,

by Eric Foner (New York: Perennial, 2002).

Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, by Louis Armstrong

(New York: Da Capo Press, 2000).

Treat it Gentle, by Sidney Bechet

(New York: Da Capo Press, 2002).

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns. Florentine Films, 2000.

www.pbs.org/jazz

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Quest Productions, VideoLine

Productions and Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 2002.

www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories.html

ONLINE RESOURCES

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns, New Orleans

www.pbs.org/jazz/places/places_new_orleans.htm

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

www.nps.gov/jazz

Early Jazz Music Websites

www.jass.com/links.html

The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930

www.redhotjazz.com/index.htm

The Louis Armstrong House and Archives

www.satchmo.net

Reconstruction: The Second Civil War

www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction

Schomburg Center for African American Culture: The Great Migration

www.inmotionaame.org

Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio

www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/jazzcast/archive.asp

“Crescent City Serenade”; “The Good Ole Good Ones”; “Mr. Jelly Lord: The Music of Jelly Roll Morton”; “At the Court of King Oliver”

 

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