![]() ![]() A large number of cabarets emerged in the “South Side” district. Even if the bands could not march in the streets because of the adverse weather conditions, the New Orleans style remained almost intact. Ten years later (1917), Storyville was shut down by the federal government, forcing jazz musicians to move to Northern cities – mostly Chicago and New York City and to a lesser extend Kansas City-.Ĭhicago rapidly became the capital of Jazz between 1917-1928. Unfortunately, although Bolden was recalled as having made at least one phonograph cylinder, no known recordings of Bolden have survived. In Storyville, one could legally enjoy prostitution while listening to the first Jazz Band in history, the Buddy Bolden Band. It rapidly became a popular music throughout the city, mostly in the District of Storyville. Jazz was born in New Orleans in the late 1890s and early 1900s. King, Rufus Thomas, Rosco Gordon and other blues and jazz legends played on Beale Street and helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Albert King, Memphis Minnie, B.B. WC Handy composed in Memphis some of the earliest and most famous blues, the "Memphis Blues" (1909), "Saint Louis Blues" (1914), and the "Beale Street Blues" (1916). In the early 1900s, Beale Street was filled with clubs, restaurants and shops, many of them owned by African-Americans. Of the large number of historical locations that played a central role in the growth of the blues, Beale Street in Memphis was officially declared as the "Home of the Blues" by an act of Congress in 1977. ![]() The blues dates back before the beginnings of jazz and its origins are obscure beyond hope of precise documentations, although it must have come into being somewhere in the deep rural South, sometime before the turn of the 20th century. Let's start with some background on what was the real itinerary that Jazz musicians followed during the first half of the XX century. ![]()
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