History of Jazz – Introduction

hi Dan moscovitch here and i’ll be
talking to today about the history of
jazz jazz is a long rich history which
began in the early 1920s when a Louie
Armstrong began playing swung or
bouncing eight notes on his trumpet
swing became the most popular genre of
music until the 1950s when rock and roll
took over as what we know today as pop
music and swing was the quintessential
ingredient of jazz until the 1960s when
Miles Davis began playing straight
eighth notes a set of swung eighth those
in his recordings the most popular forms
of jazz that one would hear about today
come from the stylings of Glenn Miller
and Benny Goodman these are the jazz
recordings are most likely to find on
your grandparents bookshelf however jazz
had a much deeper and richer history
than what you might find in your
grandparents bookshelf so what I’m gonna
do today is help you to find those super
cool really awesome recordings that even
you the young dude or chick out there
can come to love