What style of music was born in New Orleans and traveled North to Harlem?

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Jazz. Bands really go back a long way in America.Black Americans were part of the military bands going back to the revolution, as fifers, drummers, trumpeters and pipers . Brass bands became more popular and after the War of 1812, many musicians were allowed to keep their instruments.Some of them formed groups that were popular before the Civil War. Frank Johnson had a band that was popular ; it played dances and marches. In 1837 they toured in Britain; Queen Victoria gave him a silver bugle. His band was popular up until the Civil War. He led the first integrated concerts 1843–4 with classical music such as Haydn’s ‘Creation.’

After the Civil War, African american groups played a wide variety of styles, including minstrel, gospel, spirituals. Ragtime became a rage in the 1890s-Scott joplin was very popular; and Blues also came from about this time, though their roots also go back a lot further and are largely based in African music.

New Orleans is usually regarded as the birthplace of jazz, which came from ragtime, blues, and spirituals. the first music called Jazz is now called Dixieland, from such musicians as Buddy Bolden, King Oliver, Jelly roll Morton, and James P. Johnson. Dixieland -which is now also called traditional jazz- became more improvisatory as it evolved into what we call Jazz. Its popularity spread to Europe with the Harlem Hellfighters, a military unit which also took its Band with it to World War 1. Some of the musicians stayed in Europe because of the enthusiastic reception their music recieved. The music evolved into the Big Band movement, and more soloistic jazz, represented by such musicians as Louis Armstrong and later Miles Davis; and Big bands, most famously led by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Lunceford. White Big Bands were also hugely popular, such as Glenn Miller’s, benny Goodman’s and the Dorseys. Jazz moved to Harlem and was a huge part of the Harlem Renaissance starting in the 1920s .But it spread all over the country and influenced popular music to the present day. One example of that is Quincy Jones, who started playing trumpet in big bands, and wound up arranging for Basie, Sinatra, Miles Davis, and later produced and arranged huge hits like Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall and Thriller, and is still working with rap artists today.

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