What Made The Jazz Age Jazzy ?

Peggy Snyder

Capital High School

August 11,1999

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!

The Roaring Twenties

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

• 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

• 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

Twenty - Two Skidoo