Matching Pairs Jazz HistoryOnline version Match the picture with the statement and they will be in the correct order for jazz history! by Ashley Chapin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 These types of songs, plus marching band music, ragtime, church music, traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music blended together in New Orleans and jazz was born. In the 1930s during the Great Depression, swing music, another type of jazz, was invented. It sounded cheery and gave hope to people during a hard time, and big bands played this music for people to dance to. In the 1950s, Latin and Afro-Cuban Jazz was formed when Cuban musicians came to New York City to play with jazz musicians there. It combines ragtime, blues, swing and musical elements from North, South and Central America. Hymns, field hollers and work songs are sung on the farm in the south. African Americans sing these songs in a blues style. Dixieland was the first kind of jazz music played. Everyone played their own solo at the same time. Fast tempos, complicated harmonies and fancy melodies are all parts of the bebop jazz styles, developed in the early 1940s. It was played by small groups of people and a famous bebop trumpet player was Dizzy Gillespie. Louis Armstrong, born in 1901 in New Orleans, perfected the improvised jazz solo being played during breaks in the music and individuals playing solos one at a time.
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