Transcript What Made The Jazz Age Jazzy ?

What Made The Jazz Age Jazzy ?
Peggy Snyder
Capital High School
August 11,1999
The Roaring Twenties
The decade of the twenties is often referred to as the
“ Jazz Age’. However, the term has much as much to
do with the jazzy atmosphere of the time as with the
music!
Jazzy Sounds
• Prohibition caused
many of the jazz
musicians to migrate
north from New
Orleans to Chicago
• Joe “King” Oliver”
was one of the best
• His claim to fame was
hiring Louis
“Satchmo” Armstrong
Louis Armstrong
• Louis Armstrong is the
greatest single figure
in the entire history of
jazz.
• The “Hot Five” seen
here was one of the
hottest groups of the
twenties.
Jelly Roll Morton
• Jelly Roll Morton led
one of Chicago’s most
popular groups
• He was a piano player,
band leader, and show
business personality
• He got the name “Jelly
Roll” because he
rolled his fingers and
his music was sweet
Symphonic Jazz
• George Gershwin wrote
both classical and popular
music
• He was the first composer
to combine jazz and
classical music with
Rhapsody in Blue
in1924.
• He followed with
• An American in Paris in
1928.
Jazzy Duds
• Flappers were typical
young girls of the
twenties, usually with
bobbed hair, short skirts,
rolled stockings, and
powdered knees!
• They danced the night
away doing the
Charleston and the Black
Bottom.
Jazzy Talk -Twenties Slang
• All Wet - wrong
• Berries - anything
wonderful
• Bee’s Knees - a superb
person or thing
• Big Cheese -an
important person
• Bump Off - to murder
• Dumb Dora - a stupid
girl
• Flat Tire - a dull,
boring person
• Gam - a girls leg
• Gin Mill - A speak
easy
• Hooch - bootleg liquor
• Hoofer - chorus girl
• Torpedo - a hired
gunman
Twenty - Two Skidoo