Alrighty, just got done watching the first installment...
I must say, I was very impressed. I took a jazz history class in college
which introduced me to the basic roots (i.e. early African and European
influences, Ragtime, etc). I found myself going, "ah!" and "oh!" when they
presented cleverly-presented facts.
ObAcid-Jazz or any modern club music -- It was interesting to note the
similarities with the club music of the late 1800s with the music of the
late 1900s: both are youth-oriented dance music...the part where they
mentioned the bands would play "hot" music before midnight and do a slower
blues set is totally like how some DJs would switch styles at a certain
point in the night...
Also especially interesting how Jazz propagated: how these seminal jazz
bands toured the US to cities like Chicago, NYC, Kansas City, Oklahoma
City, Los Angeles -- all of which gave birth to their own forms of jazz, or
at least made their own unique contributions to the artform. Later, when
those Victorola recordings got made, it reached the masses through the
recorded medium and was able to reach a broader audience...
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