#ragtime jazz

[lascitasdelashoras]

Stanley Kubrick on drums with the George Lewis Ragtime Jazz Band of New Orleans in 1950

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[hayzeydayzey]

Happy (late) Halloween!! 🎃🧡

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Tracklist:

Overture • A Bar In Amsterdam • Tea With Cinnamon • Hey Ho On The Devil's Back • Virginia Clemm • Le Pop • Der Kapitän • Wading In Deeper • Play My Darling, Play • To The Sea • Mother Superior • Ain't No Thang

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[ifelllikeastar]

As a self-taught jazz and blues musician, Leon Redbone played by ear, sometimes changing the chords of established tunes, never rehearsing with a band, and not following set lists. Leon favored material from the Tin Pan Alley era, circa 1890 to 1910.

Leon Redbone (born Dickran Gobalian) died May 30, 2019 at the age of 69.

[cyclesofmystery]

Art Hickman’s Orchestra, 1919

I’ve always really loved this novelty shot of the Hickman Orchestra, and I thought this fine colorization job by Mario Unger really brought a new life to it. The photo and colorization are the main attraction here, BUT I’m going to give some context as to who these guys are in case anyone is curious.

Hickman’s outfit is one of a couple 1910s dance bands that really laid the groundwork for what popular music would sound like in the 20s (and for what it’s worth, probably my personal favorite of that particular late-1910s style which I love so dearly). Hickman’s group was among the first popular bands to utilize a saxophone section, which was kind of a big moment for the trajectory of pop music and jazz in the first half of the 20th century. Their sound took the syncopated edge of contemporary “jass” and ragtime and infused that into a ballroom orchestra style. The resulting music carries itself with a refined and elegant air, but with a certain simmering rakishness underneath- and when these guys really dig into it, they play with an undeniable ragged verve. My favorite sides by them are probably Hesitating Blues and Cairo (both recorded 1919), however Hickman is probably best remembered by his 1917 composition Rose Room (named for the hotel ballroom at which they were the house band), which you still hear played often enough today (that is, if you’re in with the right scene). Would’ve loved to hear what this band sounded like live, I can only imagine that the old acoustic recordings don’t do them full justice.

[pearl-plays-piano]

The Chrysanthemum

Scott Joplin, 1904

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Soir 🎺💙🎷🎹 👌

Mutt Carey's New Yorkers 🎶 The Entertainer

Animation Rui Barbosa

[thekidsarentalright]

smartest decision of my life was signing up to take a history of popular music course this quarter i am already having Thee time of my life in it ough

[tootern2345]

Another thing for Black History Month is Jazz! Jazz was invented during the late 19th century in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana and while the genre has been a staple for many, many people, one thing people may tend to gloss over is one of the earlier pioneers of the jazz music, known earlier as “jass”. Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden. Born in 1877, Buddy would end up leading an early band that was active between the periods of 1900-1907, known for loud sound, early examples of improvisation and brass instruments in the bands, playing ear by ear, and having an impactful career on the musicians who he played with/surrounded him! He’s also credited for inventing a rhymtic innovation called “The Big Four” and was the first “King of Jazz”

In 1907, Bolden was diagnosed with Schizophrenia (at the time, called dementia parecox) after suffering an episode of acute alcoholic pyschosis and was committed to a mental asylum, putting an end to the band and his music career as he ultimately ended up passing in 1934. During the time he was committed, jazz music became popular amongst both black and white people alike, despite some info like him marrying Hattie Oliver and had a son named Charles Jr in 1897 and the like, his life is shrouded in colorful, first hand oral traditions and myths, and his (alleged) recorded music doesn’t survive since it was recorded on photograph cylinders, which at the time, was the standard for recording music before it lost popularity in the 1910’s before being discontinued in 1929.

Overall, Bolden had a massive impact on what would be later known as jazz as we know it! Mixing ragtime, blues, and allegedly, gospel music, and while he and others are gone, he is not forgotten!

[juliesandothings]

Dancing in the Mirror Ballroom at Madame Hilma Burt's House in Storyville, (the old red-light district) in New Orleans - pianist is believed to be Jelly Roll Morton

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[rustbeltjessie]

That Spooky Rag (Vintage Halloween Hits from the 1910s and 1920s)

00:00 The High Hatters - Spell Of The Blues 03:15 Victor Military Band - Spooky Spook by Victor Military Band (1917) 06:01 Isham Jones - I'll See You in My Dreams (1924) 08:58 Collins & Harlan - The Ghost Of The Saxophone (1917) 12:07 Edna Brown & The American Quartet - Mysterious Moon (1912) 14:30 American Quartet - That Mysterious Rag (1911) 17:40 Walter J Van Brunt & Maurice Burkhardt - The Ghost Of The Violin (1912) 20:23 Peerless Quartet - The Ghost Of The Ukulele (1917) 23:27 Edward Claypoole - Spooky Spooks (1916) 27:10 Clarence Wiley - Carbarlick Acid Rag (1904) 29:51 Bessie Smith - Haunted House Blues 33:13 American Symphony Orchestra - Hallowe'en Dance (1909) 35:23 Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orchestra - Graveyard Blues (1918) 38:51 Dan Quinn - More Work for the Undertaker (1902) 41:05 The Peerless Quartet - The Ghost Of The Terrible Blues (1915) 43:57 The Premier Quartet - That Syncopated Boogie-Boo (1913) 47:50 Helen Gross & The Kansas City Five - Undertaker's Blues (1924) 52:03 Maurice Burkhart - At The Devil's Ball (1913) 55:20 American Quartet - The Skeleton Rag (1912)

[thebaltimoreyoudontknow]

Did you know Eubie Blake was born in Baltimore?

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Tracklist:

Bangin' On The Pipes / Steam Heat • Salt Peanuts • Grinning In Your Face • Shaky Flat Blues • That's A Plenty / Surfeit, U.S.A. • Little Pony • Fairytale • Black Coffee • Love In Them There Hills

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