BP#3 Research on Harlem-Li

Music in Harlem

Jazz was the sound of Harlem Renaissance Music!

Jazz was the sound of the 1920s. With the Harlem Renaissance Era, jazz became people's music despite some trouble have been accepted by the black cultural elite. Jazz was very popular with most of the Harlem's citizens and it's popularity was growing quickly nationally and worldwide.

The Birth of the Nightclub!

Nightclubs like the Savoy Ballroom, the Apollo Theater, and the Cotton Club were perfect venues to display the jazz. Going to nightclub was very popular and jazz is too often left out of Harlem Renaissance History.


  

Jazz Was Popular Entertainment and Became a Huge Business!

Harlem Renaissance music was defined by the lively clubs and characters who constantly improved and modified jazz's sound. Men like Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and Willie "The Lion" Smith were the "gladiators" of jazz in these early years. Perfectionists, they had little patience for musicians without the talent or skills to keep up. The competition and innovation during the 1920s was fierce. Harlem Renaissance music was more than just music, for many, jazz was a way of life.

The Dapper Duke Ellington  

 

The Lights of the Cotton Club 

Willy "The Lion" Smith

http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/Harlem-Renaissance-music.html

http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/Harlem-Renaissance-1920s.html