{"id":249,"date":"2021-03-09T18:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/?page_id=249"},"modified":"2021-03-16T20:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:26:39","slug":"history-of-jazz-1899","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.jazzgeschichte.de\/?page_id=249","title":{"rendered":"History of Jazz – … – 1899"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jazz – Timeline: … – 1899<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Developments\u00a0in\u00a0Jazz<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n

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Historical\u00a0Events<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

1619<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n
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  • The first Africans are sold into slavery in America<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1817<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • New Orleans city council establishes „Congo Square“ as an official site for slave music and dance<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Harvard Law School is founded.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Mississippi becomes a state.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • James Monroe is elected president<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1865 …<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • Ragtime composer and pianist Scott Joplin<\/strong> is born in Texarkana, TX on November 24, 1868<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Slavery is abolished in the U.S. by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution<\/span><\/li>\n
  • The handcranked phonograph<\/strong> is demonstrated by Thomas Edison<\/strong> on November 29, 1877<\/strong>. The phonograph will eventually allow the spread of popular music.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1880 …<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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    Pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton<\/strong> (Ferdinand La Menthe) is born in Gulfport, LA. on September 20, 1885. Jelly Roll learns harmonica at age 5 and is proficient on guitar at age 7.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Blues singer Ma Rainey<\/strong> (Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett) is born on April 26, 1886 in Columbus, Ga.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  • Pianist Tommy Turpin<\/strong> writes\u00a0Harlem Rag<\/em>, the first known ragtime composition<\/span><\/li>\n
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    Stride piano player Willie „The Lion“ Smith<\/strong> is born in 1893<\/strong>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Stride piano great James P. Johnson<\/strong> is born on February 1, 1891<\/strong> in New Brunswick, N.J.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Blues singer Mamie Smith<\/strong> (believed to be the first black to make a record) is born on September 16, 1890<\/strong> in Cincinnati, OH.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>First use of the word Ragtime<\/strong> <\/em>appears in the song title „Ma Ragtime Baby“ by Fred Stone in 1893<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Blues singer Bessie Smith<\/strong> is born on April 15, 1894<\/strong> in Chattanooga, TN.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Band leader Benny Moten<\/strong> is born on November, 13, 1894<\/strong> in Kansas City, MO.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Boogie Woogie piano player Jimmy Yancey<\/strong> is born in 1894<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • The Homestead Strike, one of the most serious labor disputes in U.S. history occurred in Pittsburgh.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • General Electric Company is founded<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1895<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • Pianist Scott Joplin<\/strong> publishes his first two rags.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Cornetist Buddy Bolden<\/strong> forms his band<\/span><\/li>\n
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    Stride piano player Luckyeth „Lucky“ Roberts<\/strong> is born on August 7, 1895 in Philadelphia, PA.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Clarinetist Jimmie Noone<\/strong> born in New Orleans, LA.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Cinema is born<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Thomas Edison invents the first motor-driven phonograph<\/strong>. Phonographs are improving but are still a long way away from being commercial.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1896<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • Pioneer Boogie piano player Lloyd Glenn<\/strong> born in Texas in 1896.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • Racial segregation is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court, Plessy vs. Ferguson establishes the „separate but equal“ concept that will allow segregation and „Jim Crow“ to flourish.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Radio technology is introduced<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1897<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n\n
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  • First subway in the U.S. created in Boston.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • William McKinney is elected President<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1898<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • Scat singer Leo Watson<\/strong> born in Kansas City, MO on February 27.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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  • The U.S. goes to war with Spain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1899<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n\n
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  • Scott Joplin’s\u00a0Maple Leaf Rag<\/em>\u00a0is published and sells over 100,000 copies.<\/span><\/li>\n
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    Piano player, band leader and Jazz composer Edward Kennedy „Duke“ Ellington<\/strong> is born on April 29 in Washington, D.C. to a moderately well-to-do butler\/navy blueprint man.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    <\/span><\/span>Thomas E. „Georgia Tom“ Dorsey<\/strong> is born in Georgia.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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