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 * In the 1920s all different kinds of music was popular. From [|Jazz and Swing to Blues, Big Band, and Pop]. All popular and all made it a little easier to live threw problems in life. Music made people sometimes forget their problems. Music relates to The Great Gatsby in the way of parties. At each party there is music and it helps bring people together and kind of forget what they are going through** 1196395351


 * The Jazz Age or Roaring Twenties, an era when popular music included current dance songs, novelty songs, and show tunes. In 1919, Kid Ory's Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans became the first black jazz band to make records. [|Bessie Smith], the most famous of the 1920's blues singers, was introduced to the world through her first recording that same year. Also in 1924, Louis Armstrong joined the [|Fletcher Henderson] band as featured soloist for a year, then formed his virtuosic Hot Five band. Excitingly different approaches to jazz were taken by such bands as: the Fletcher Henderson band, [|Duke Ellington]'s band (which later opened what was called the [|Cotton Club] in 1927) in New York, and [|Earl Hines]'s Band in Chicago (who opened in The Grand Terrace Cafe in 1928). These three influenced the development of big band-style swing music significantly.[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz]**.1196872176

was criticized from Henry Ford to the New York Times. Jazz was different from other styles of music, musically and socially. But the growing center of jazz was New Orleans and the first original jazz band was formed and brung the music to a national audience. Reformers couldn't fight progress as Jazz reached radio stations and recording studios. Even today the amount of controversy over gangster rap and explicit lyrics suggest that it still may have some effect on listeners. Cheneng11http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/beyond/jazz.html** media type="custom" key="348501" media type="custom" key="348485" = = media type="custom" key="345877"
 * The sound of jazz swept America around the early twentieth century. It left delight and controversy wherever it went. Popularity for jazz was growing as well as others who campaigned to stop it. This new liberating and sensuous music genre

**The Entertainment of the 1920's is complety different from todays. The 20's were known as the "Jazz Age" because this genre of music was very popular and has beginning to show off its talents. This may have also been the turning point in music; there were many different people who changed music and the way people looked at it. One who has changed musical history was Duke Ellington, America's greatest composer. He played in a vary of locations so that the world would recognize his music. Ellington was considered one of the most famous music artists of the decade and century. http://library.thinkquest.org/J0111064/20entertain.htm** **//Nathen_Akamine

//George Gershwin (born Jacob Gershwin) played at Tin Pan Alley at the age of 16. He wrote several hits including, "Swanee," in 1919 He also wrote "Stairway to Paradise," "Do it Again," and "Somebody Loves Me." Gershwin wrote an famous symphony piece called** //Rhapsody in Blue//. **By the age of 30, he had written many succesful scores including "Someone to Watch Over Me" and "Strike Up the Band." [|George Gershwin] 1196385486

Louis Armstrong is regarded as one greatest jazz musicians of all time, born in 1901, his career as a jazz musician really started in about 1917, at the age of 16. Between 1925-27, he made some legendary recordings with His Hot Five and His Hot Seven, he continued to amaze audiences through the 50's and 60's, and before his death in 1971, he managed to take the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Charts, beating out the Beatles with his rendition of "Hello, Dolly!" from the broadway musical. Some of his most famous pieces were "West End Blues", "Mahogany Hall Stomp", and "Heebie Jeebies."http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/louis-armstrong Kevon_Moncrief**

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 * Music relates to The Great Gatsby in only one way, the party guests would listen to music at the parties that Gatsby hosted.**